Dont leave us JonnyGURU!

[Daniel]

What kind of lame net cop wanna be would to that, they were brave enough to email his boss why not be brave enough to admit it here?

 

[JACKHAMMER]

<< I'm sick of the sniviling morons who have flooded this board, things used to be so much better around here. >>



So true.


I hope Johnny stays around. We should chastize whatever moron who did this.

 

[T2T III]

Actually, this is now the 2nd incident. The first was another individual who worked at Office Max and was providing us with posts on clearance items. Some loser turned this individual into Office Max and the guy was fired. This is getting old. What kind of sick punk gets off on sending E-mail messages to employers? A jealous one? A deranged one? A moron? Sheesh.

 

[Red Dawn]

It probably was one of the School Marms that invaded this place a little over a year ago.

 

[Viper GTS]

If anybody thinks an argument here is worth somebody losing their job over you're absolutely nuts. Especially in today's economy, losing a job (especially one that you've had for a long time) is a serious setback. Many people here have enough publicly available information to trace them to their employers, or even to their homes. The potential for abuse is astounding, yet previously the community was close-knit enough for it not to be a problem. We now have members with no attachment to the community, nor any respect for those of us who do.

This is a dangerous combination.

Viper GTS

 

[ShotgunSteven]

<< It probably was one of the School Marms that invaded this place a little over a year ago. >>



Or perhaps someone with a grudge against the place overall, perhaps someone from Swedish Special Forces that drives a Porsche, bench presses 1,000 kilograms, and can make a rocket launcher out of bubblegum, a paperclip, and a toothbrush?

Well, whoever it is, they need their arse kicked. :|

 

[kranky]

wje, the other incident was a little different. The guy who worked for OfficeMax (he's still a member here, so I hope it's OK if I don't use his handle) was giving AT a heads-up on what was on clearance. When one person was told at the store they didn't have any of whatever item he was after, the person printed out the thread and took it to the store manager demanding to get his item. As stupid as that is, I can somewhat understand someone not realizing what could happen.

In jonnyGURU's case, someone was just downright evil.

I agree with genocide's assessment. We've let the sense of community get trampled by nefs and morons. Now it's too late. I wish when someone gets a vacation or a banning they would just reset their post count to zero, it's the one thing that many of these goofballs seem to be in love with

 

[tasslex]

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<< genocide..i know you're pissed... but its not worth getting banned over.... >>


Agreed, but I do agree with you genocide. I don't come here much and even though I'm not an "old timer", it was much nicer and more personal here when I joined. That's why I've kinda stayed away from this place (especially OT) now. >>


It's not just AnandTech forums either. All the forums that I've been visiting seem to have been getting flooded by lamers more and more since around August. The internet isn't as fun as it used to be.

 

[StageLeft]

Whoever did this is a piece of garbage. I mean it: You're a piece of sh*t.

This is so pathetic. I'm also going to significantly curb the nature of my posts based on this. You never know when a sarcastic comment will make some idiot on AT get so offended he thinks that it's worth emailing your company. My God that's sad.

 

[GasX]

Skoorb, watch what you say, someone might tell mrs. skoorb ;-)

 

[MajesticMoose]

I thought Johnny had left for good a while ago because of something which i can't recall. I was sad to see him go then, I always enjoyed his posts. Why the hell would anyone even do this. Maybe they figured out that it was them he was ranting about

m00se

 

[TuffGirl]

<< .... and after that, I spanked and went to sleep. oh wait, you probably didn't need to know that! >>


ROFL! yeah that was TMI, hehe.


I haven't been around the forums for all that long so I'm not aware about how "tight" a community it used to be either. I have read a couple of JonnyGURU's hilarious rants though. Sad, sad loss for the forums to see him go. I'd be happy to get in on the "nice email" campaign if we can get his permission and get one going.

Hey is the Tampa AT get-together still going on at his house next next weekend?

 

[MikeO]

I wish there would be a way to prevent these dumb fscks from joining the forum :|

 

[BigSmooth]

n/m, it WAS an active member, and a subscriber no less. Thanks, you're really helping the community, whoever you are! :|

 

[LukFilm]

This sucks, sorry dude Anyway, any boss sensible enough would see from Johnny's post that he went above and beyond the call of duty to help the customer out. There was NOTHING in the post that should get him in trouble, let alone fired.

 

[Dean]

I think everyone here should make sure their work email is not made public or to disclose where they work. With around 80,000 members there are bound to be some people who just want to cause trouble. I remember well over a year ago the mods made some forum troublemaker work address public. I was totally against that even though the guy was a total dink, simply because the guy could have had a wife and kids to feed.

 

[geno]

<< There was NOTHING in the post that should get him in trouble, let alone fired. >>


I think it's the fact that he was sharing company info with everyone. I doubt the boss likes the idea of him sharing customers emails which are assumed to be confidential.

 

[Keego]

That pisses me off to hear what happened, I hope he doesn't leave, but if he does, I don't blame him. Some people just don't know when to shut up.

 

[eakers]

BOO-URNS.



*kat. <-- doesnt want jonny to go go.

 

[Kelvrick]

<< I think everyone here should make sure their work email is not made public or to disclose where they work. With around 80,000 members there are bound to be some people who just want to cause trouble. I remember well over a year ago the mods made some forum troublemaker work address public. I was totally against that even though the guy was a total dink, simply because the guy could have had a wife and kids to feed. >>



Why did the mods do that? I joined too late to see that.

I haven't been here that long. I only joined since February so I wasn't really here in the beginning. I have been here long enough to notice the trend though. A lot of the forums have been going down hill. I don't really blame the MODS for how tight they have to be now, though. With all these new people who don't contribute to the community, they can't really just leave us here anymore.

Was there anything different between this rant and another? Jonny just doesn't wanna come back because it could stir things up more, or has something happened to him already? Does anyone still have a copy of what was said? A pm would be nice.

 

[jonnyGURU]

Where I worked was never a big secret.... it just was irrelevant to my POSTs here. Someone said I was a disgruntled employee. If that were the case, I would start every "rant" with "I work for such-and-such and this place sucks and the customer suck" and that simply doesn't happen and never would happen because I love my job and where I work and it's par for the course that you'll get the occasional bullet head.

I'm just going to let it drop. Drawing attention to myself (like this post... DUH!) and antagonising the individual (which could serve to result in another email to my work place) is only going to irritate an open wound.

It's done. Last post. Seriously... an no, Red. I'm not giving you his email address.

 

[FettsBabe]

Face it, some people have NO LIFE and enjoy causing others misery. There are some people on this board who continue to flood people's email with perverted unsolicited emails. Then we have our regular drunks who post and email crap like this when they get wasted or send nasty little emails to their "FORMER" friends. They have no respect for others.

I had a run in with one many months ago and again a year back, but they ran away like a little scard pup (except the pups cute). It feels nice to be able to take care of business. PEACE OUT!!!

 

[geno]

We'll miss ya jonny You're an important member around here, hell I've been seeing your name here for the past 2 years...your wonderful posts will be sorely missed. Take care, and the best of luck in the future...

 

[FettsBabe]

Johnny,

Its not like they really care about your job or them thinking your boss needed to know. It was someone being a bastard and needing a swift kick in the ass. I'm tired of crap like this happening to good people. I hope we find out who it is and ban their nasty butt from here FOREVER!

Hell, the loser who emailed him probably doesn't even have a job.

 

[BigSmooth]

<< Actually, it is an active member. I know this because the link provided in the email started with "subscriber" and not "forums". >>


OK, then that really stinks. :| Sorry it had to be this way Jonny, but I know I will see you at other boards (I don't want to say which, lest this person decides they need to monitor your activity there as well! :|)