Laidoff employee owns ex-employers domain. What will he do with it?
Now this is interesting and… a bit.. umm… silly on the part of the company. Why this issue was not reconciled prior to this employee’s departure, I’ll never know. I suppose hindsight is 20/20.
-snip-snip-
I got laid off a few weeks ago. Work was slow. The company has been going through some tough times. I was actually happy to leave.
A year or so ago, when I still had a job, I mentioned to my boss that our company should buy its “actual” domain name. The company is Allstate Installations, but their web site domain name is allstateinstall.com. I suggested they buy allstateinstallations.com because that is what anyone in their right mind would search for / type in the address bar when looking for our company. He thought that was a great idea and would think about it. I sent him reminder e-mails. I talked to him again in person. Nothing came of it.
So I bought it myself and politely forwarded the traffic to the company’s webpage.
Now they have laid me off and I’m wondering what I should do with the domain.
READ: I own my ex-employer’s domain name. What should I do with it?
Nothing says "Thanks for posting this Jim!" like Starbucks Coffee. Click here to buy me a cup (or two).If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Ha Ha, made me look, Jim!
I take the lesson in this as a message that being useful or destructive are equally possible and in business we need to have the foresight to practice good judgment, knowing that what comes around, goes around. “Getting even” is a story that often makes news, however that and is more valued than “doing good” by the mainstream.