SEL: 99 Problems for Ex-Google Employee

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March 30, 2005

99 Problems for Ex-Google Employee

Let's start wednesday off right, shall we?

The .NET Sweatshop is a blog maintained by a Microsoft employee (anyone know who?) and they decided that the recent woes of former Google employee and blogger, Mark Jen, were worthy of a putting to music.

Download Jay-Z's song "99 Problems" and sing the following words along to it...

The year was '05 and he was a bloggin’ Google fan
But in his rear view mirror was the angry HR man
He had two choices: apologize and rescind his words or
test his bounds and see if they were really open nerds.
Now he ain't tryin to lose his job near the beach
but he lives in America and knows about free speech
So he keeps the site until they got real sore
And hears "Son do you know what we’re mad at you for?"
”Cause I’m young and I’m honest and my audience has grown
Do I look like a mind reader sir, I don't know
Am I terminated or should I guess some more?
"Well you was saying Google’s not as cool as people think we are
Looking at your resume, you were a Microsoft star.
Were you plant by Bill Gates? I know a lot of you are"
”I’m here cuz it’s hip and my site is legit”
"Do you mind if we look around your blog a little bit?"
”Well my blog is on Blogspot and Google owns my lock
So go ahead and look—most of it says that we rock
"Aren't you pretty cocky are you Sergey or Larry or something?"
Or somebody important or somethin?"
"Now I ain't a founding father but I know some PR
Enough to know that you won't fire a blogging star
"Well see how smart you are when the paychecks don’t come"
He got 99 zeroes but his job ain't one.

Thanks to Heather!

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