Comments on: Motricity Leaning Heavily On InfoSpace Acquisition; Laying Off 250 And Moving To Bellevue

By: Kelly Bowling

Kelly Bowling — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:37:34 +0000

Motricity's Loss = Your Gain

BB&T;is hiring for its Mobile Banking and Messaging/Alerts initiative. Contact Kelly Bowling at kbowling@bbandt.com for employment opportunities.

By: bent over

bent over — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:59:35 +0000

well as someone who was with the company back when they where in Franklin, TN it kills me how far Ryan and his band have continue to sucker investors and sell BS. I started with the expectation that hard work and creativity would be rewarded. After long hours and sacrifice half the office was let go because of declining sales (based on poor policy/business practice being forced by Ryan). All while this is going on, Ryan is building a multimillion dollar home, bought a brand new Mercedes and spent countless dollars on providing window dressing for the company instead of building a core business system. Everyone managed this company via spread sheets simply because he would not spend any money to provide business value.

Anyway, it sounds like the Durham folks are getting the same shaft the rest of the folks that get hit in the wake of the Wuerch express. He comes in with visions of grandeur, spends the least amount of money on the actual business yet ensures he and his family/friends are taken care of. Ryan is very talented but his skill set is not suitable for running a company. If he was actually college educated he might have been one heck of a lawyer..

By: Thorpe

Thorpe — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:54:22 +0000

WOW, lots of names in here. Benders, do you remember when we first turned on Cingular in the middle of the night and watched the logs on the servers start to fly only to see the whole thing crash down the tubes?

The next few days after that were pure hell, trying to find ways to get this thing going, trying to make it work. We spent hours and hours in that place, for a week or longer. Some of us were digging through the code trying to make it more efficient, some of us were working on hardware. I was trying to find ways to get servers that normally take 90 days for arrival. Somehow, some way, we were able to make it all happen. Joe V, Benders, Taylor, Kramer, Josh and the rest of the group. That is the best, most talented group of people I ever worked with. Once the PBH train rolled in, the fun was over. Sad. I hope the current management will take this as a lesson and make changes to their style.

Either way, those days when we first turned up Cingular were some of the best in my career. I will never forget it.

Thorpedo

By: MB

MB — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:09:54 +0000

It was fun while it lasted…i'm going to take a break and figure out what to do next instead of rushing into the next job that comes along…hopefully, there is demand for that kind of stuff here…else it going to be goodbye triangle…

By: Likes Motricity

Likes Motricity — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:56:03 +0000

Hey, this seems like a pretty cool company – anyone know if they're hiring?

By: amazed

amazed — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:15:32 +0000

Look if you aren't looking out for yourself and family (if it applies) above all else then you are just as much at fault here. Business is business and the bottom line is the quantitive measure by which business makes decisions end of story. So what you were lied to, are you really surprised? Take some initiative and take care of yourself and get out of this generations feeling of entitlement for being born as it doesn't exist. There are plenty of other opportunities locally and Careerbuilder along with other sites have tons of jobs posted that are open. Take 10 minutes update your resume and be happy you have a good entry from Motricity and enjoy your 20% raise for finding another job like the rest of us are 8).

By: Dr Who

Dr Who — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:23:59 +0000

Ha! They are deleting comments out of this thread!

By: My spoon is too big...

My spoon is too big... — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:46:26 +0000

Let's not forget being in the fancy new building for 12+ months, closing the restrooms 2x per day in the middle of the day, and not ever having the soap dispensers filled. No wonder customer deliverables were such a mess.

By: MissAmerica

MissAmerica — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:00:28 +0000

yes, a book……

let's see it includes ms. america, ryan preaching to the masses about "Good to Great" in his oklahoma preacher's mode, lots of bad fashion (primarily men), "must protect the company" crazy hr person, a lot of questional and unethical business practices on the part of company, a couple of people who went crazy, sycophants, anal retentive telecom folks, crazy ivy league peeps, lovely mongolian lunches, interoffice romances, heedless nepotism, lots of cool and smart peeps to work with, and lots of needless firing and hirings.

yeah, a movie…writing it now.

By: Out of Fuel

Out of Fuel — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:37:34 +0000

From Pinky and the Brockman

"Taylor will continue to do the same thing as he does every day……… TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!"

So…is he hiring any evil henchmen? ;)