I noticed the same thing about this firm.

They used to to passion and people at the forefront ...and now its just ego and dollars.

Did they also steal your lunch money and beat up your little brother?

Hey Thrag, I'm assuming you noticed the "founded and sponsored by Blast Radius" at the bottom of the page. Pretty safe to assume that lots of people from BR stop by here, since we built the damn thing. Your post felt (to some of us) like a cheap shot at BR, so I thought why not spice things up and have a little fun?

If you've got a serious gripe about BR, maybe you can tell us a little more about the details of your situation and we can respond. As it stands your comment sounded nothing more than you liked us when we were young and punk rock but now that we're "big" and have sold out and gone commercial we're just not the same. Yeah, well if your business grows, you can't manage it the same way you can when you were a hungry, scrappy startup. Starbucks was "cool" once when they only had two stores in Vancouver...

But if you're just here to slag us, then rest assured we won't take it lying down.

Hey Thrag, interesting post - overall this co. treats their employees badly. Recently I have heard they are having a Production Push. What this means is that they are told to work over time for very small amounts of taxable cash. If you do the math, it works out to be 12 -15 dollars an hour for anywhere from 10 - 20 hours of overtime per week.

They have some sort of Jedi Mind Trick - to brain wash their employees into thinking 'they are doing it for the greater good of humanity'. ITS ONLY WEBSITES FOR FELT MARKERS PEOPLE - NOT OPEN HEART SURGERY.

I think Mr. Tait is one of these brainwashed employees. Hey Tait - let me guess your in Middle Management? You walk around with your coffee mug, swaggering and telling people about how hard you work? Your a real winner sir. Shouldn't you be somewhere...saying...."Yes sir! No sir!"?

Have a super day!

I don't think the purpose of this site is for people to relate their experiences as a customer / client of a company and for others to express their own experiences with the same company also as customers / clients. When the company involved wades into the conversation, it becomes skewed. I think employees shouldn't be allowed to comment. Yes, they have an experience with the company but it is not the same experience that a customer / client will have and this is a customer / client experience website. And their comments are likely to be biased. Companies shouldn't be worried about slagging as I think a group conversation of honest consumers will soon balance the discussion.

Also, rorytait, if you actually work at Blast Radius and Thrag _is_ a client, you are treating him pretty poorly. I hope you are talking for yourself and not representing the company. Having the impression that a company is treating you poorly is one thing but having someone at the company tell you that they really don't value you speaks volumes.

Whoops, that should be "I think" not "I don't think". Hey, Sutori peeps: add an edit function for comments.

OK folks. Sutori is all about free and open conversation, but these conversations are meant to focus on a specific theme: individual stories about life as a customer.

Our community guidelines are pretty clear on this. Unfortunately, some of the comments on this post are drifting pretty far from that mission. So please try to keep the spirit and intent of Sutori in mind here so we don't need to go down the comment moderation path.

Gratefully,

The Sutori-Heads

Anything posted here by me is my opinion only and does not represent the opinions of Blast Radius, its employees or anyone else associated with the company. Just me and my swaggering, coffee-mug-toting middle-management ass.

I'm a little disappointed there doesn't seem to be more appetite for a good old-fashioned flame war here on Sutori, but that's OK. I think I did misinterpret Thrag's intenions here with his/her original post, so I apologize to Thrag for that and for helping to create a shit storm where one didn't have to exist.

And God knows I don't want to piss John off and have him moderate my ability to make wise cracks on the rest of the site...

Peace y'all.

While this posting might not be in keeping with the specific theme of Sutori, i do like some of the content relating to employees, etc. I've always wished there were a venue for this sort of comment and input.

Having worked for and heard about not so great companies I would like to see a place where people can post their experiences, as employees. Whenever debating whether to accept employment at a new company or not I always try to interview as many people who have worked for that same company as possible -- having this input in one place would be great. Potential employees, as much as the employers, are buyers.

The purpose of this site is to help companies understand how they are perceived in the eyes of their customers. I know, because I worked on it. I disagree that employees shouldn't be allowed to comment. I believe the employee experience is just as important as the customer experience and tells you just as much about a company. Yes, employees offer a different perspective than customers, and not every employee will feel free to share negative experiences. However if employees comment, and their comments generate discussion, it means that, on some level, the company is listening. Rorytait did ask for details of the situation(s) that caused the negative experiences, and received no response. (And I can assure you, as an ex-employee of Blast Radius, that Rorytait does not walk around telling people how hard he works. He spends most of his time and energy trying to champion his team members, of which I was one, telling senior management how hard his team works and that his people should be recognized.)

As for Blast, they may not always be perfect but they do listen. I have no bias and no reason to defend them. Like many businesses they have had to grow and change, and have made mistakes along the way, but I strongly disagree that their employees and managers are all brainwashed production pushers; in fact they are some of the finest people I've worked with.

This is rich. Blast Radius runs the site but "No one from Blast Radius has replied to this story." Which suggests why this site will not be a success - it is often dangerous and counterproductive for companies to get involved in forums like this.

But it gets even better. rorytait, apparently a lurking employee, flames Thrag and John of the "Sutori-Heads" chastises posters for taking the discussion in a direction inconsistent with Blast Radius' vision for the site. Apparently Blast Radius doesn't really believe in building online communities and doesn't understand emergent behavior.

So 6 months later...I have had a similar experience with Blast Radius - arrogant, complicated, and arrogant. And complicated. Oh yes, and expensive. If at the end, we had a great product, I could put the arrogance and complicated-ness aside, but the output is a C- at best. Who's the client?

The other agencies I work with are big, and good. Blast Radius - I cringe when I have to work with them. Good example of when big is not always better.