Its not like they are alone in this. I see more and more adaptive
companies facing more competition from other areas such as Apple.
Reality checks do not bounce.
From The Believer. . .
. . . what if it were true?
ancient.ali...@icloud.com
On 11/22/2014 10:59 AM, Pamela Francis wrote:
What is truly sad, is they have risen to be the beacon of convention coverage
and or A T news bragging about how many followers they had, yet are willing in
the wink of an eye to pull the rug out from under all of those people who have
come to depend on them. Mike Calvo, their founder, is blind. He left the
company. Their current CEO is sighted. It's no skin off of his nose to close
the door on a resource that many have come to depend on. Though they have sworn
their employees to secrecy, it sounds to me like they have become more
mercenary with the inability to deliver. I'll bet they didn't bother to send
an email to their paying subscribers letting them know the service was going to
get axed if in fact that happens. They didn't count on blind bargains printing
their story. In order to save face they feel as if they have to come out with a
lame blog explanation.
That in my opinion is 100% garbage. You wanted to be a big boy company
accepting all the big boy accolades? Put on your big boy pants, face the music.
Do a podcast. Bring everyone back, allow them all to explain why they left with
no holes barred.
Pam Francis
On Nov 22, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Jessica Miss <junglebookfa...@gmail.com> wrote:
That doesn't make sense; they made great software and other services to go
along with it so don't understand why they're splitting up all of a sudden.
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 22, 2014, at 12:57 AM, Joe Quinn <jdawg1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Here it is:
Serotek, the makers of the System Access screen reader and the company behind
the Serotalk POdcast Network, has parted ways with the majority of their staf,
leaving the future of the company in doubt. Those losing their jobs include
Buddy Brannan, Ricky ENger, Lisa Salinger, Joe Steinkamp, and Richard Wells.
Steinkamp and Enger were let go last week while the other three announced their
departures earlier on Friday. The staff members let go produced and
participated in many popular podcasts including The SeroTalk Podcast,
Triple-Click Home, That Android Show, and End of line among others. This leaves
a bare-bones staff including long-time programmer Matt Campbell and producer
Jamie Pauls who remain with the company, at least for the moment. We've reached
out to Serotek for comment, and inquired about the future of the company and
their software products and will post more if we hear back. We know a lot of
you might like to post your memories, comments, or well wishes to those who
have departed. Feel free to do this in the comments. Update to clarify that
some of the 5 may have officially resigned. That being said, it's unlikely this
was done under favorable terms. The end result is still the same.
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
<hank.smith...@gmail.com> wrote:
can you please post the link to the article?
On 11/21/2014 10:26 PM, Pamela Francis wrote:
Hello folks,
For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their
main team has been fired.
If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there.
There is nothing on the Serotalk page or the Serotek page to say anything about
the most recent move. Truly a shame. Those guys had good chemistry. You would
never know they were working from across the country. If you subscribe to any
of their services, you're likely to get less support now than you ever did. I
hope it doesn't mean the beginning of the end for those people. As hard as
their founder worked to create it into the company it has been.
Pam Francis
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