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Did anyone else get the impression that this guy is a major slime ball? I'm sure YouSendIt has issues at the top, and it does sound like Kumaran may be a little glory hungry.

But when you happily engage in vengeful DDOS attacks, shitty app spam, and flip apparently stolen websites, it paints a pretty clear picture of your character. I know I sure wouldn't want a guy like Shaikh working for me. Not in a million years.




Ditto. The guy bled for the company yeah, but the reason why I feel sympathy for him is not because he was kicked out despite working so hard. Even though he might have bled for the company and worked with executives with questionable integrity and technical appreciation, he deserved to be kicked out as soon as he stole the switches and put them up on eBay.

No, the reason why I feel sympathy for this guy is that he was so socially inept that he couldn't figure out how to talk with other people, build business relationships, build team relationships, and manage others without being a two-faced jerk (don't take it personally, Mahler, I want to prove to Koon that I care only about success and will sacrifice anyone for it?). The guy was just too out of his element for the battles he needed to face.

He may have been technically very good, despite being socially awkward, and some jerks may have taken advantage of that. But that in no way justifies or accommodates the bad decisions he made. He's essentially taking the stance that two wrongs make a right, and so I think he has a really poor sense of right and wrong.


This is very close to what I feel. While I sympathize with how socially inept he was, he did make those mistakes himself, lack of skill is not excuse.

After all, there are many socially inept people who manage to live happily as they are; there are many more people who made mistake and learned from them.

"The man of pity, must have his share of blame"


Many people are socially awkward because they have bottled up rage or antisocial urges and need therapy. Sounds like this guy might have been in that category.


"...and flip apparently stolen websites" Can someone explain this to me. I understand stealing a website's content but how do you steal a website?


One way is by transferring the domain. A famous case is sex.com. The original owner was awarded $65m (not sure if he got it all), but there was a legal battle more than a decade long:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex.com


Break into the site's servers and steal the code...




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