Hi gang!
This is pretty offtopic I suppose and to make matters 'worse' it doesn't even directly concern me. But I got so immensely pissed off after reading about this that I just couldn't help to share a small vent with my fellow techies.
I'm sure we all heard of GoDaddy before? For those who have not: GoDaddy is one of the larger domain hosting providers. They provide hosting services which vary between hosting of domain and e-mail as well as websites and virtual servers. You can also apply for other services such as SSL certificates.
Personally I've always been quite satisfied with their services, though I'll be the first to admit that they've always been a little pushy. For example: registering a new domain doesn't only take you through the required steps to set it up, naah, you're also going to have to go through dozens of suggested services. All optional, sure, but you're still going to click through several pages with several other "amazing" deals for you to consider. But from a technical point of view I've always been satisfied.
Until now
Christmas "bonus"
See, GoDaddy had a wonderful idea this Christmas and they decided to sent all (or several?) of their employees an e-mail in which they promised them a $650 Christmas bonus. All the employee had to do was follow a link, fill out a form and things would be said in motion. Yah, but if they did then another e-mail would follow 2 days later in which they were told that they failed the "Phishing test" and were expected to follow an internal training to regarding electronic security.
I'm not making this crap up!
What a way to treat your employee's in times like these, great job!
I call that cyberbullying and/or trolling, and I have one very simple answer for that garbage...
Anyway, in the mean time they apologized although they obviously still believe that there was a great goal to keep in mind here, but even so I think this is just cruel and disgusting behavior in these already harsh times. What on earth were they thinking?
I'm out
Now... this is not your casual "This company sucks" thread because honestly I still think quite positively about the hosting services provided by GoDaddy and I'm also definitely not suddenly calling them out as being bad or something. It's also not my intent to urge others to dump them because, well, that would actually hurt those employee's even more!
Even so, learning about this news seriously ticked me off so I wanted to share with other techies. I've already set a few things in motion for myself and all my domains which I still had with GoDaddy will be moved to another provider within a day or 3 - 5. This is no way to treat people, especially in times like these, and well... if they are this disrespectful towards their employees then what's stopping them to do the same towards their customers?
Maybe food for thought?
This is pretty offtopic I suppose and to make matters 'worse' it doesn't even directly concern me. But I got so immensely pissed off after reading about this that I just couldn't help to share a small vent with my fellow techies.
I'm sure we all heard of GoDaddy before? For those who have not: GoDaddy is one of the larger domain hosting providers. They provide hosting services which vary between hosting of domain and e-mail as well as websites and virtual servers. You can also apply for other services such as SSL certificates.
Personally I've always been quite satisfied with their services, though I'll be the first to admit that they've always been a little pushy. For example: registering a new domain doesn't only take you through the required steps to set it up, naah, you're also going to have to go through dozens of suggested services. All optional, sure, but you're still going to click through several pages with several other "amazing" deals for you to consider. But from a technical point of view I've always been satisfied.
Until now
Christmas "bonus"
See, GoDaddy had a wonderful idea this Christmas and they decided to sent all (or several?) of their employees an e-mail in which they promised them a $650 Christmas bonus. All the employee had to do was follow a link, fill out a form and things would be said in motion. Yah, but if they did then another e-mail would follow 2 days later in which they were told that they failed the "Phishing test" and were expected to follow an internal training to regarding electronic security.
I'm not making this crap up!
What a way to treat your employee's in times like these, great job!
I call that cyberbullying and/or trolling, and I have one very simple answer for that garbage...
Anyway, in the mean time they apologized although they obviously still believe that there was a great goal to keep in mind here, but even so I think this is just cruel and disgusting behavior in these already harsh times. What on earth were they thinking?
I'm out
Now... this is not your casual "This company sucks" thread because honestly I still think quite positively about the hosting services provided by GoDaddy and I'm also definitely not suddenly calling them out as being bad or something. It's also not my intent to urge others to dump them because, well, that would actually hurt those employee's even more!
Even so, learning about this news seriously ticked me off so I wanted to share with other techies. I've already set a few things in motion for myself and all my domains which I still had with GoDaddy will be moved to another provider within a day or 3 - 5. This is no way to treat people, especially in times like these, and well... if they are this disrespectful towards their employees then what's stopping them to do the same towards their customers?
Maybe food for thought?