e-Media Memories

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• Ohh... the pain.
  
  Along the lines of "Company-wide email about the overpowering stench of raw sewage in the basement of the headquarters", Fay's cube being dubbed the 'Poop cube'
  
  The mock OSHA sign hanging in the kitchen at Riverbend from the guy in Creative (what is creative? we are all creative) summarizing the Employee Benefit program at eMedia (lack of heat, the fitness program 'we don't need a gym, take a brisk walk around Riverbend!').
  
  And the end... ("We're a little behind on rent, this is just a scare tactic.")

  By  kristin, at 10:42 AM, January 07, 2005  

• The belt guy
  The guy with shoes like canoes (I think he was a Mormon).
  That intern who sent vulgar messages after he was terminated
  "We're getting there"
  Legal Proceedings
  Ostensibly
  NY FESTS (A mazzarelli favorite)
  Birthplace of Farookie!
  Bengel Cam
  "Have to be billable"
  Time sheets
  Chins
  "I program in Cold Fusion"
  That guy who let his dog shit in the office
  Intermittent power failures
  Cigar stench left after party
  "I don't give a rat's ass about the weather..."

  By  Winston, at 3:36 PM, January 07, 2005  

• I just didn't appreaciate this email enough...other quarters- that's priceless.
  
  "anyone feeling at risk in working in such "intolerable" conditions should let me know. we can arrange other quarters for you."

  By  Winston, at 3:40 PM, January 07, 2005  

• - John Engal, “Were a BILLION dollar company”
  - Just hire them, we will figure out what to do with them
  - Spending too much money on a trade show booth, and using it twice
  - Watching “Startup.com”, and thinking how similar e-Media is to it
  - Spending $1 million on hard drives for San Jose datacenter, and never using them
  - The San Diego Office
  - The Chrysler building party
  - The Portland office
  - Playing foosball, as loud as you can, just to piss people off
  - The most famous 3 words in America, “Were getting there”

  By  Jon Whiting, at 5:13 PM, January 07, 2005  

• Ahhh so many....
  
  - Valentine's day layoffs
  - Braswell asking DI if they would buy us for $50MM, then thier CFO asking, "What, in lira?"
  - Special chairs and parking for handicaps
  - 'Sperm wash'
  - FFF
  - Alatorsev admiting to gay wrestling, "Just hold me." What the fu.c...k?
  - Jae Yang and Winn Swarr
  - footbal in the back of Riverbend
  - Aibo the plastic peice of shit
  - The burning LOG trade show booth
  - business card collections
  - Where are they now file:
  * Bruce McArther
  * Rose "This place is crazy" Tantillo
  * Elizabeth S. Arkay-Leliever (Account Manager)
  * Dennis 'Rebock' Shafer
  * Tricia "who the hell am i?" GaNun
  * Brian "who the hell am i?" Curry
  * Kevin McCauw
  * Mike 'Visio' Giordano
  * Dennis 'DHTML - the hard way' Krasnov
  
  ( I could go on but I will leave the rest to this roster of misfits commenting after me.)
  
  peesh

  By  Michael, at 8:29 PM, January 07, 2005  

• Few things you folks forgot to mention...
  
  + "Hey Steve, if I want shit from you I'll just squeeze your head."
  + "It's a lease. I think it's called Boxer."
  + The 'Brain Guard'.
  + "Slap enough mayo to clog an artery" and the 'Projectile Bologna Sandwich'.
  + The 'Emotional Power of Video'.
  + Meritocracy
  + Director of keepin' it real
  + That guy who used to nap in the garage.
  + Serving Sony B2B on WebStar and Tango.
  + John Fuhrer writing script to pull data off of GE OTFS's VAX boxes.
  + Saying no to Playboy. Saying Yes to Rena Mero.
  + The 'Rip Roaring Asshole' Letter.
  + Convergence.
  + "We're not happy until you're not happy"

  By  Anonymous, at 9:23 PM, January 07, 2005  

• It's time to kick this *old school*. I was an e-Median *way* before you whipper-snappers! (well, except you, Steve, and you, Kevin).
  
  Sleeping under my desk to do a rush job because I was the only one who new Director
  Paying the pub owner downstairs so we could have 3 parking spaces outside
  Listening to the live bands at the pub through the floor
  Cubicle vollyball
  Everyone related to JE has a job there
  Bloody buggary Sony product Matricies... in EDI format
  Having "Golddust" flash his PA'd wang at me while doing the first streamed WrestleMania. ...it wasn't all that impressive.
  
  CM HarringtonPersonal Weblog:
  Localtype.org

  By  Anonymous, at 11:26 AM, January 08, 2005  

• yawn. It is only a matter of time before an old "e-median" comes out of the woodwork to tell of the days of yor.
  
  It's a real shame people couldn't stay on-board to ride the crimson wave of disaster.

  By  Michael, at 1:38 PM, January 08, 2005  

• Remember this groovy CD from the Chrysler building office grand opening party? Listen to Jengel's intro.

  By  Josh, at 2:40 PM, January 08, 2005  

• - Getting fired then re-hired.
  - Who needs a firewall?
  - Yea, the laptop hard drives and... THE DOUBLE SIDED TAPE
  - Oh yea, the fact that nobody could buy a kick ass fan to cool the boxes so they BURNED in the NOC's.
  - Mai Tai's
  - HAHAH this place was the best time ever.

  By  Anonymous, at 3:13 PM, January 08, 2005  

• Oh! What a great post!
  -Finding a certain programmer's unsnorted lines of coke in the bathroom after the xmas party. Thanks!!
  -racing the hell out of those scooters and then crashing.
  -gigs and gigs of mp3s
  -Partying with a certain Executive (Sales was it?) who was such a lightweight she passed out and had to be taken home. After being dragged out of the car and up to her front door steps her skirt was almost completely up over her hips and her hair and glasses were completely disheveled. The doorbell was rung and she was left there in hopes that her husband was home.
  -When above mentioned coworker had a baby she made a video of her child and asked us to encode it so she could put it online and send links to her relatives. Imagine our surprise when the video had some rather up close breast feeding scenes. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but do you want your coworkers and the C*O to see it?
  -Were a streaming company!
  -Taking on contract to encode Japanese films then pushing play and finding out they were old hard-core japanese porn. There were perks to the job!
  -Fay and his satanic diagram of the company hierarchy
  -"You know what you should do bro-ham?"

  By  Nate, at 8:23 PM, January 08, 2005  

• I was fortunate enough to be in the first round of layoffs, but I still have some fond memories.
  
  - Someone getting a hold of the corporate payroll and publishing it to THE WORLD. I think that I still have that file someplace.
  - $10,000 cubicles and $1,000 chairs in a facility that they didn't even bother to sweep (and later on, pay rent for).
  - Working on $30 folding tables before said $10,000 cubicles arrived, with the only connectivity being on the sides of the office space. Also, playing football, wiffle ball, and rollerblading in the open space.
  - Cordless phones and residential lines instead of a real phone network.
  - All of the RAM mysteriously disappearing from the Macs in the creative department after the first round of layoffs.
  - Click, click, click... "Can I talk to you for a sec?" (sorry Allison, had to mention it :) )
  - Those damn bowties!!
  - Swinging by the Portland office after it closed down while on a road trip. It looked like there was a firedrill and everyone just walked out, leaving stacks of mail and dead plants. I guess in a way, that's true...
  - "The stories you hear about there being layoffs are just rumors..."

  By  Chrysanthemum, at 11:33 PM, January 08, 2005  

• I just got an email from our "Chief Legal Officer"...
  
  "Hey Josh -- Your blog brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for featuring me! Please feel free to post this.
  
  Hope you're doing well.
  Eric"

  By  Josh, at 9:36 AM, January 11, 2005  

• Ah, a trip down da memory lane...
  
  My three fave e-Media moments:
  
  1. (censored)
  2. (censored)
  3. (censored)
  
  I'm gonna refrain from making comments regarding Whiting, Lisa Luscio, LaVoie, and other unmentionables.
  
  peace,
  
  "McCauw"

  By  Kevin, at 5:35 PM, January 11, 2005  

• Ok - who can forget the party at Riverbend! Fake grass carpet,massages, frozen drinks, shots - who walked out of that party walking straight? Mai Tai's and jumping on those tables flying down the isles. The server room closed in by one big cage that was open most of the time.Ray Tellini..... RICARDO!!! At the end of every layoff hearing (to the rest who were still there) "We Need You"
  Being laid off, then brought back. Does anyone remember the "pods" that were almost bought for 10k a piece?

  By  Michele, at 5:51 PM, January 11, 2005  

• What is this not going to comment about Whiting.
  Go ahead, have some fun, see if I care.
  
  I forogt to add one that was just brought up by a competitior of my current company.
  
  Recently ranked the 34th fastest-growing technology company in North America by Deloitte & Touche 2000 Technology Fast 500, e-Media is headquartered in New Canaan, Conn. with offices in Los Angeles, Calif., New York City, Portland, Ore., San Francisco, Calif., and Stamford, Conn.
  
  And, "CEO of the Year"

  By  Anonymous, at 3:28 PM, January 13, 2005  

• - A company policy banning sweatpants in the office
  - No heat in Stamford, the company wide email from the programmer in the style of "it's harde to code whil3e whjile wear;ing ;glovesl. pleasde fixz the4 heat"
  - Chalk drawings outside the pod cubes
  - Pod cubes!
  - Rattlesnake, Tigins, sushi nights
  - The excel document left on the printer (in the final weeks) that included all remaining employees names, salaries, a checkmark in the column of the date they would be laid off (there were three options).
  - Parties at J&Ks - Name that e-Median!

  By  kristin, at 3:48 PM, January 13, 2005  

• Although having employees nearly begging to be laid off & someone's eBay listing of e-Media posted in the kitchen are up there on my list of fond memories, nothing in my book beats "The Seizure" & the marshall(?)not finding the "new sheriff in town" joke amusing.

  By  Alli, at 10:53 PM, January 20, 2005  

• I don't have too many memories, since I wasn't there that long. But this one, I'll never forget:
  
  Hearing someone say “Ma’am would you please step away from those machines, they are under Sheriff’s seizure”
  
  while frantically loading clients db tape backups...

  By  Cara, at 3:34 PM, May 23, 2005  

• - "Who Moved My Cheese?"
  - D.A.R.

  By  Michael, at 1:17 PM, May 24, 2005  

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