Boing
Remember this?
November 24 - I was told this week I will be made redundant as part of a restructure at AOL UK.
Well, I’m still not sure how it happened, but I have been offered a job as a senior manager for BBC News.
I’ll be working in the new media division - it sound like a great job, it’s a good step up, the office is amazing, it’s one of the best news websites in the world and they want to work on ways to make it better.
Thanks for your encouragement before - it really mattered and I wanted share this back to say thanks.
I’ll delete this post in a couple of days because I don’t want to gloat while other people here (or anywhere) are losing their jobs with nothing lined up, or leave it online to make for my future or current employers feel uneasy. But how about this year, hey?
December 18th, 2007 at 12:30 am
You ROCK, CLiff. You just effin’ rock. I’ll want some urls to see where your work might show up.
December 18th, 2007 at 1:53 am
DOOD.
That’s fucking amazing. Really. And no one deserves it more.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:41 am
Congratulations. I filled in one of those popup-up surveys on the BBC News site just the other day letting them know what I thought of the site and what I thought it needed to make it better. Clearly, my input was of such low usefulness they decided the “ask random visitors” approach wasn’t working and Plan B: Actually Hire Someone would need to be put into effect.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Great News Cliff! As it’s a site I visit regularly, I’ll be keeping a beady eye out for exciting innovations!
December 18th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Good work, fella. You took a bad situation and turned it into something positive. Ain’t that a man?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Yeah, how aBOUT this year?
Nice one - AOL’s loss is the BBC’s gain.
:)
December 18th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Congratulations
December 18th, 2007 at 11:15 am
w00t!
Congratulations, Cliff. Great news indeed.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:43 am
WAHEY!
December 18th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
I’ll add my congratulations as well, but would also ask, what does this mean for the future of TIT..?
December 18th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Wow, that’s amazing!! I’m really happy for you!
December 18th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Boing!!!
(The ad is too big!!! The ad is too big!!!)
December 18th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Thanks Ed, Wendy, Katy, Jonny, Anna, Kathryn, Sam, Z and Chariwoman.
Mark, there are some very good people there who also seem to know there is a lot to be done, but they are asking people their opinions. That makes you my boss.
Mr Angry - Thanks, and good question. I really don’t know.
December 19th, 2007 at 3:38 am
we can’t just leave 13 good luck comments now can we?
CLiff, please please please never allow a headline that’s got nothing to do with the story, or is nothing but a smart-assed remark. The ‘editor’ at Reuters doesn’t even look at the headlines on the stories, sometimes. They’re horribly unprofessional. HEadlines aren’t a joke.
December 19th, 2007 at 8:29 am
No, Ed, you’re right.
This just in from Reuters.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Somebody was bored at the office…
I hope TiT won’t be forced to suffer unduly, Cliff - will you still be riding to work on the Big Grey Fun Bus? Think of the fans…
December 20th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Grand work there Cliff. Welcome aboard.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
And Cliff - you missed the follow-up story:
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=337901&cc=3888
There’s lovely.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Whahay!!
Cliff, you are The Bouncemeister! (I almost put bonkmeister ffs!)
Up. Theirs!
December 23rd, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Woot!