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End of an era

posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 09:36pm on 12/08/2005 under ,
I have just unloaded the last of my now worthless shares in my dot-com era employer, the one-time eBusiness consultancy Scient.
Mood:: 'nostalgic' nostalgic
Music:: David Holmes - Let's Get Killed - Don't Die Just Yet
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posted by [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com at 02:03pm on 12/08/2005
Thanks for this news. It kind of makes me feel a bit better for not being the managing director of a DotCom success story.
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posted by [identity profile] sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com at 02:08pm on 12/08/2005
You used to work for Scient? You poor child. I went in for an interview with Scient in 1999, and knew something was up when the only people interviewed who weren't rejected as having said that "they were from outer space" were graduates of SMU's business and advertising programs. After hearing what happened later, I was damn glad that I didn't get the job.
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 05:08am on 13/08/2005
Oh, it's difficult to refuse someone headhunting you and doubling your salary...

It wasn't too bad on the tech side of things, and in Europe. I got to see chunks of the world and do interesting projects...
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posted by [identity profile] fba.livejournal.com at 02:38pm on 12/08/2005
The company I got made redundant from have been bought and merged and came out of the .com boom as Pipex...

They seem to be doing alright - which never fails to amaze me...
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posted by [identity profile] stillcarl.livejournal.com at 05:16pm on 12/08/2005
You didn't think to try and sell them on eBay as "worthless but priceless mementoes of the .dom era!"? Or is that how you managed ot offload them? :-)
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posted by [identity profile] stillcarl.livejournal.com at 05:20pm on 12/08/2005
Hee - ".dom". There ought to be ".dum" domains...
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 05:09am on 13/08/2005
Ah, if only. They were held by some US securities firm that I didn't even know had them...
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posted by [identity profile] jaq.livejournal.com at 12:37am on 13/08/2005
But have you unloaded the branded clothing and merchandise?
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 05:06am on 13/08/2005
Oh, I still even have ECsoft branded clothing...
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posted by [identity profile] daveon.livejournal.com at 03:22am on 13/08/2005
Ah... Scient... so many meetings so little work.

There were so many baby -ients too.

Vient were another f**ked company IIRC.
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 05:07am on 13/08/2005
Heh...

To be honest I was very busy a lot of the time - I think the UK office was rather different from the US...
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