cisco fatty
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Cisco Fatty a sad but true Twitter tale. [1]
Cisco Fatty, You’ll Laugh About This Someday. [2]
Unlike some people in the Twitterverse, I do feel bad for Cisco Fatty (the person, not the web site). [3]
The career-limiting faux pas has been immortalized with its own “Cisco Fatty” Web site. [4]
In this case, said trouble happens to concern said applicant (known less generously as, ahem, Cisco Fatty) had a new job prospect with none other than Cisco. [5]
The internet is buzzing with tales of the latest web 2.0 casualty ‘the Cisco Fatty. [6]
Cisco CEO John Chambers recently announced that Cisco would have some staff reductions, but apparently they are still doing some hiring — or at least trying too until Twitter interfered. [1]
For those unfamiliar with the tale, the young person in question — a first-year grad student at the University of California Berkeley’s School of Information — just landed a job with Cisco Systems. [3]
Twitter is all a-tweet with the recent exchange between a prospective Cisco hire and another Cisco employee. [4]
Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work. [...] A parody of it is already on YouTube which you can watch above, or you can read the original blog post here “How To Tweet Yourself Out Of a Job” which contributed to the mania. [7]
After receiving an offer from communications giant Cisco Systems, the jobseeker Twittered about it, telling his followers that although he had been offered a ‘fatty’ paycheck, he wasn’t sure he would be able to endure the commute and ‘hating the work’. [6]
Cisco of course, is social media aware and they noticed the tweet and responded with a tweet of their own (by Cisco channel partner advocate Tim Levad). [1]
They say Twitter is as Twitter does and, these days, it seems to be true. [5]
“A Cisco employee on Twitter saw this tweet and replied: “Who is the hiring manager. [2]
Sources:
[1] Cisco Fatty a sad but true Twitter tale - InternetNews:The Blog - Sean …
[2] Linux Today - Cisco Fatty, You’ll Laugh About This Someday. Really.
[3] Cisco Fatty, You’ll Laugh About This Someday. Really. - Datamation Blog
[4] Tweeted out of a job: The “Cisco Fatty” story | NetworkWorld.com Community
[5] Forget Layoffs, Cisco Fatty, Tweets Will Keep You Unemployed …
[6] Social Networking and Your Job: Lessons from the “Cisco Fatty” - Admin …
[7] Have you heard the story of “Cisco Fatty“? Lessons in Work, Life ‘and …