David Karp, Tumblr CEO:
What we’ve accomplished with Storyboard has run its course for now, and our editorial team will be closing up shop and moving on. I want to personally thank them for their great work. And please join us in wishing them well.
Storyboard was well-regarded. It’s a shame to see them put an end to it. And, you know, what the world needs right now is definitely more out of work editorial people.
Also, “we’re so happy with what they did that we shitcanned them all” seems like the sleaziest corporate doublespeak imaginable.
People can do great work, but if the company can’t make money from it stuff like this happens.
No doublespeak is necessary.
I was once called “brave” by the owner of a business who I quit working for because the job was literally giving me agita.
The moral equivalent of “With all due respect, don’t let the door hit you in the a** on the way out”. The “With all due respect” makes it all better.
Will marco lament?
I had no idea this thing even existed.