Here Today, “Dot- Gone” Tomorrow! The Chorus ringed the back of the stage and they would discuss, in unison and harmony, the actions on the stage. If the scene was happy, the chorus spoke of happy things. If it was sad, they changed their mood. It helped the audience, pre- microphone and sound systems, to follow the play better. Today you can still find the “Chorus” at work in the modern world. Only now we call them “Industry Experts” – and they certainly have “changed their tune” about dot- coms. Investors, employees, recruiters, and candidates seem to be listening to the chorus and ignoring the play. They are all running away from the “Darling of the Decade” (the dot- com) as fast as they can. Even then, we insist on a funeral and every good funeral has a eulogy. Even a premature funeral should have a eulogy. In light of the industry fear, shock and horror, and endless articles “ad nauseam” about the apparent demise on our old friend, Dot Com, maybe we need a good old eulogy here today! Cut down in life at such a promising age, offering careers, futures, and more stock than any sane person would have ever believed possible. More generous than careful, more motivated than organized, more enthused than experienced, more willing than able, Dot Com gave all of us a shot in the arm. Dot gave us an opportunity to truly get excited about work once more in our careers. After decades of 3- 6% annual growth and salary increases based on the ability of tar to flow uphill in December, the Dot Com gave all of us a “jolt,” and many of us riches, if not millions, then certainly more than our original compensation plans forecasted and predicted. We seemed to break free of the rituals and traditions that bond our fathers and their fathers. We learned to forsake the “Gold Watch” in pursuit of a career that offered change, diversity, challenge, and risk. Ah risk, nectar of the Gods. We now measure challenge based on our own criteria, not the “ticket punching” criteria of career paths of the endless “gray suits” that proceeded us. Maybe one or two steps down in car model and make. Possibly keeping your car two or three years longer than you do now, if not for our old compatriot, Dot Com. How many of you would still be going to work in a coat and tie, pleated skirts, wing tip shoes, and modified heels if not for the unprecedented impact the impetuous and disrespectful Dot Com had on the business atmosphere. That summer home you bought at age 3. The student loan payments you were able to make without the same pain as your older sibling who entered the workforce in the mid 8. The informal “leave your job title on your business card” atmosphere of the office, “Bagel Mondays”, “Beer Bust Fridays”, “Open- door CEOs”, “Midnight pizza till the release is done,” and an atmosphere where company and agency recruiters saw your being young and eager were “good things.” Can such feelings disappear overnight? But, can you really say our dearly departed did not come into your life and make it better? Is your company more open and more liberal in its policies and practices? Isn’t the compensation policy less restricted by seniority and more driven by your personal impact and ability to contribute? How many counter offers “to stay where you’re loved” did you receive between 1. How many companies that never offered stock options to rank and file personnel suddenly launched generous programs. Benefits that have been eroding for years saw a turn around over the last decade. Job jokes at analyticalQ. All my Dot Com ventures turned into Dot Goners. Article on demise of dot-com industry, particularly in wake of September 11 terrorist attacks and new war against terrorism; photo (M). Spencer Michels reports from San Francisco on the ongoing corporate bloodletting in the dot-com industry. Graziadio Business Review Ever since the dot com collapse kicked off last year, and since it got really unpleasant over the past couple of weeks, it seems that everyone has had a opinion to vent on the subject. THE DOT-COM HAS GONE LIVE! June 7, 2013 (Pictured above: KVLTVRE.com’s Homefront page.) Welcome to KVLTVRE – an alternative talent acquisition agency and record label house. We are not in the money-making business, we are. Not because large established companies wanted to share more of the wealth with their workers! However, a promise based on your talent and your success. Not based on how much the “wing tips” up in the in the boardroom felt like slicing out of their own dividend checks. General Electric has Web Content Editors and Web Vice Presidents. The Armed Forces have websites and Web masters. I am certain that there must be a “vatican. I wonder who the ISP is?). For Dot Com has not departed us. Over 1. 0,0. 00 Dot Coms remain, employing hundreds of thousands of employees and representing billions in revenue and investments. A door has been opened and no momentary slowdown, no unexpected soft landing will deny Dot Com the future. Do not forsake our friend Dot Com, for it has a long memory. There are always those who jump on the bandwagon to late, and those who jump off too soon. Take counsel from the wise, not the panicked. The dream that all who “knew” Dot Com would grow rich was a false dream. Do not blame Dot Com for failing to fulfill the unrealistic dreams of tens of thousands. Rather, pity those who failed to keep the dream and ran from Dot Com when the first problems arose.” “Dot Com is business, it is not a mythical tale, a magical power, or a fast track to unearned riches. When we expect more of it than that, we are destined to be disappointed. It has not passed, it has merely outgrown unrealistic dreams and is beginning to establish itself as what it always has been, business.” “And so my friends, weep not for the passing of the Dot Com, but look forward to the arrival of the reborn Dot Com and come to it, for it is good.” Hey, all kidding aside, business never goes away; it changes, but it never goes away. During times of incredible opportunity, everybody makes money. During times of challenge, those who did not build strong business relations and solid business contacts seek someone to blame for their sudden “downturn.” Bad business opportunities are always the easiest to sell to, and the first to disappear. Today’s villain appears to be our old friend Dot Com. Which I find amazing, as I am still working “beaucoup billables” and numerous assignments for a very real and profitable Dot Com community. Maybe it is another Dot Com, a distant cousin, I have been reading so much about. I know the.com.gov.edu convention was useful back in the day when 14 people were connected to the tubes and pipes, and I know there is no way we'll ever get rid of top level domains. But, if a network engineer could somehow. It was printed on a flyer for the liquidation auction of failed dot-com EBalance. But bargain hunters gathering in. The Ferrari-driving entrepreneur -- he had two at one stage -- exemplified the hopes and hubris of the time, when corporate valuations were based on 'revenue multiples' rather than the fuddy-duddy earnings-based metrics of the. Dotty Griffith, queen of the Dallas food scene, is officially off the clock. D Magazine reports that after nearly 30 years with the Dallas Morning News, Griffith is taking the money and running. After 17 years as the Morning. Have a great day recruiting! Subscribe to our daily e- newsletter.
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