ShadowRAM: September 4, 2006
Well, sorta. Dent is CEO of Chicago-based RLD Resources, which has a telecommunications services arm that is an SBC Enterprise solution provider and a member of AT&T's Alliance Partner Channel. When a Tech Data executive asked Dent what his company does, Dent responded, "I don't know, something about terabytes." Guess someone else is running the tech side.
Paging Dale Carnegie. Radio Shack may need a lesson in corporate etiquette. The consumer electronics retailer followed through on plans to cut about 400 jobs but did so in a very non-hands-on manner. The Fort Worth, Texas-based company let the cuttees know they were canned via e-mail. Affected employees got messages Tuesday telling them they were dismissed effective immediately. As in right then. As in don't let the door hit you on the way out.
OK, that last part was writer embellishment. According to reports, the real verbiage was, "The workforce reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately, your position is one that has been eliminated." Employees were forewarned notices would be electronically delivered, a spokeswoman said. Still ...
Salesforce.com veep and AppExchange architect Lew Tucker is leaving for a CTO position at Radar Networks, a self-proclaimed "stealth-mode" start-up in San Fran working on nebulous content-enrichment technologies. We hope Radar has good front-line tech support, since desktop maintenance is apparently a weak spot for the new tech head: Tucker told The New York Times last year that he threw out his adware-ridden PC rather than trying to cure it. "I was spending time every week trying to keep the machine free of viruses and worms," Tucker told the paper. "I was losing the battle."
Former Sun channel chief Gary Grimes, who retired two years ago, is ba-aaack. He's joined Swot Management Group, which provides marketing services to the channel.
A former Lockheed Martin engineer is making headlines with a novel whistle-blowing tactic: He posted a video on YouTube.com detailing allegations about security and safety shortfalls on Coast Guard boats that the defense contractor is refurbishing. Companies already are stressed about the possibility of blogging employees outing company secrets—now YouTube can inspire a fresh round of paranoia.
But Michael De Kort's video got us thinking more about other whistleblowing leaks we'd like to see. Hey, Vista engineers! Anyone want to YouTube some status meetings?