Re-post: Jason Calcanis' Resignation Response to Evan Culver

[tmpacct]

April 20, 2010

Resignation

Jason Calacanis at his finest.

I should note, that instead of responding, he instead removed my email account. Real pro of him. Good thing I forwarded it to myself first :P

Begin forwarded message:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Evan Culver <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:53 PM Subject: Re: Resignation To: [email protected]

Really?

What is your deal? I will ultimately have to come back to Mahalo to pick up my things. Why so rash, what is your rationale? This seems really unprofessional and when other developers and employees see this, it just makes them want to leave ASAP. Is it really that big of a deal that people find better things for them than Mahalo?

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:19 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: Evan, Don't come back to the office, do not email the team list.

Elliot will send you paperwork tomorrow. Today was your last day.

Good luck being employee 4,367 at a dying company.

Horribly disappointed in you.

J

Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

From: Evan Culver <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:48:37 -0700 To: Jason Calacanis<[email protected]>; Jacob Burch<[email protected]>; Jeff Ammons<[email protected]> Subject: Resignation

Hey guys,

This isn't an easy email to write, but as the subject suggests, this email is to inform you of my resignation from Mahalo effective in 2 weeks. An amazing opportunity came out of nowhere that I just couldn't say no to. I'll be writing code as a UI engineer at <redacted> and contributing to the open-source <redacted> project on a full-time basis. <redacted>

I've never worked with such a great team and learned so much in such a short period of time. I owe all of it to the opportunity you've given me, Jason and I thank you immensely for that. Jeff and Jacob, you guys are amazingly brave for tackling such a great undertaking. I'm impressed you do it with seemingly such ease. Many people would fail quickly in your shoes and I applaud you for your leadership in such a fast-paced environment and against such great odds.

I certainly won't be going far (<redacted>), so I hope to continue a lasting relationship and hope that we all can work together sometime in the future.

Thanks again,

[eculver]

Thanks for the support guys! I guess I wasn't sure. The best part was the comment from "bobflemming" saying to take it down because of how spiteful it made me look. Wonder who "bobfleming" was considering it showed up right around the time google alerts would have fired. I guess it worked, but at least the interwebs haz it now.

[tmpacct]

@evanculver Good luck at Yahoo, dude. It's not as dead as some say, as is evidenced by the excellent code they churn out.

-- http://twitter.com/codeshaman/status/12584315658

[Frazzydee]

Implicitly confirmed true in Evan's reply:

@codeshaman Thank you sir. I was going to delay the announcement, but you know, people do things that make you jumpy.

-- http://twitter.com/evanculver/status/12585519584

[philk]

Given Evan deleted his post it might be best not to reproduce it.

Yes, Jason is an immature douche but it'd be nice not to screw over Evan, particularly when he's taken swift action to correct his mistake.

[tmpacct]

I disagree. Evan shouldn't have taken his post down.

More people need to have the balls to stand up and reveal people as they are to the world.

[dschobel]

I agree but it's impossible at this point. Even if the moderators delete it so that it doesn't show up as [dead], it's an interesting enough story that people will keep reposting it and up-voting it.

This bell can't be un-rung unfortunately.

[paraschopra]

Yep, flagged the post so it becomes [dead] soon.

[vijaydev]

second that.

[unixpro]

Resignation by email? If you're remote you pretty much need to resign by telephone. It's the proper thing to do. Much or all of this could be avoided.

[kloncks]

Seriously take this down. You're only showing us your immature behavior, not Jason's.

If he wanted to take it down, it is his decision and his decision only.

[tmpacct]

Let the upvotes decide to take this down.

[latch]

Being asked not to come back into the office (or to leave the office) isn't exactly unheard of. Insulting the new company is low, but it is yahoo...

[dschobel]

did the original story get nuked? I don't see it even in [dead] form.

[revolvingcur]

Looks like it got deaded. I won't link it obviously, but in my opinion, the exchange is a matter of public record now and I support it remaining here.

[jpwagner]

Very unprofessional