Beware the wrath of a sacked social media director:
The tweets have now been deleted as the boss wrestles the keyboard from the ex-employee…
UPDATE: The password changing battle continues…
UPDATE II: And perhaps the best of the lot:
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Ian Katz to Newsnight | Speccie
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Loverson Lawyer Helped Write Report | Mail
Twitter $10 Billion IPO in 2014? | Seeking Alpha
BBC Leveson Coverage Let Down Public | Guardian
Len McCluskey’s “Inaccuracies and Innuendos” | Staggers
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
The thing that Dave needs to work out is which group is more likely to vote Conservative. Mad swivel-eyed loons or mad homosexuals wishing to get married.
Behind the curve, but he got there eventually:
Oh get off the bandwagon you cretin.
Solidarity with the HMV crew. Buy all my stuff from Amazon and iTunes
HMV brand is a joke. Its more obsolete than the dead tree press.
+10
The Grauniad’s next!
By all accounts HMV has been badly run for ages, with many silly projects wasting money. I would have thought with Amazon etc being so big it was inevitable that HMV would go down, although they could have acted earlier so save themselves.To all the disgruntled ex employees, you really should have seen it coming !
This is what happens when the money runs out Owen. Lots of people lose their incomes, devastating whole families and scaring a generation.
And yes, they are left having to watch Xfactor for family entertainment as there is no money available to take in a west end show or a rock concert.
The trick to avoid all this is not to run out of money in the first place.
Take in a west end show or rock concert?
Cutting edge stuff from the finger on the pulse of readers of this blog, as always.
I know its awful. I expect the poor downtrodden to be able to choose if they wish to go to such venues , but a increasing number of those downtrodden are financially unable to choose to go to such venues because someone,allegedly, banished boom and bust for them.
Ya get me !:)
Who ‘takes in a west end show’? Is this where the cast become homeless and knocks on your door of a frosty night two days before Christmas?
Its not a question of “money running out” dont be stupid! its a question of money being spent elsewhere via downloads on Amazon etc. Plus HMV did themselves no favours, their customer service was never good.
Question for Owen Jones and for all those HMV employees: What have YOU been doing to save the jobs of the manufacturing workers and sales personnel of the buggy whip industry? They are no less deserving than you, FFS! Quit thinking only of yourselves!
There’s no money left.
Owen Jones was in the audience at the Leveson debate last night.
For someone usually so vocal, when it came to the Q&A he was strangely silent.
The school boy giving them a helping hand, the HMV crowd must live in La La land if they think he can be of any use, hinder or destroy yes, help, help him get his name in the media yes.
Who’s OWEN JONES
If he is against it I am for it.
Anything he does, is wrong, do the opposite you will not gto wrong.
Does Owen know of the Sale in Mothercare?
Babygro’s, dummies, nappies at affordable prices Owen.
Stock up for yourself son.
Just a mention of HMV gives me the horn.
Dog-gone!
Perhaps if they had done their job better they wouldn’t be getting the sack
What a moronic comment. Expect nothing less from the Guido-brigade.
These are the suits complaining, not the shop staff.
Erm – they did do their job well.
Don’t confuse HMV workers with Labour politicians.
Note the unpaid interns aspect in the above tweets.
Odd that but I thought the point of social networking for a business was to get people to buy your stuff. HMV didn’t sell enough.
It was a strategic failure that led to the brands failure. They didn’t shift to digital and unfortunately were left behind. Your blame is misdirected.
I left HMV behind when they tried to charge me £17 for a five year old Tindersticks album.
I put it back on the shelf, went home and installed uTorrent, and was playing it ten minutes later. For nowt.
Fuck em.
Completely unfair.
It’s not the fault of HMVs marketing team. The board failed to understand the change from physical media to downloads. In the late 90′s they actually dismissed the threat to their business as ‘rubbish’ when an ad agency pointed out that online was their biggest threat. They are also saddled with ludicrously high rents from an aggressive expansion about a decade ago.
Only a retard blames the demise of HMV on digital downloads, they chose to stock a very limited range of music and fill acres of shelf space with the same DVD. You know like what Tesco do only with higher prices. No strength in depth FOAD the lot of you.
Quite right. If these shops were so wonderful then why didn’t people flock to them with their wallets open?
Agreed. They didn’t even have a copy of Zabadak by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch when I enquired recently. Call themselves a record shop!
So you see no correlation between the fact that in the last few years we’ve lost Zavvi and HMV and the rise of iTunes and Amazon mp3? Dumbass! Peoples habits have changed!
Here’s a blog from the guy who handled their advertising for a very long time:
http://www.philipbeeching.com/2012/08/why-companies-fail-rise-and-fall-of-hmv.html
HMV’s days as a huge chain providing music, film and games from a brick and mortar shop are at an end. It will survive in some form (largely because if the last music and video retailer disappears from the high street- film studios are scared of Amazon and iTunes dictating terms) but not with nearly as many branches as they had a few years ago.
Not enough people want to go to the effort of going to a store when they can have the album within 60 seconds.
the government should have banned the internet.
+1
And sugar
and private schools.
And The Fabian Society.
And Welfare Immigrants.
And Piers Morgan.
Or charged it Business Rates and VAT like those on the High Street. Its an uneven playing field
And too much salt
Not down to them, its down to management. HMV are – or rather were – part of the old part of the music industry that despite the writing being on the wall to modernise or die, over the last 15 years or so, have decided instead not to change, not to embrace the technology. Consolidation will only get you so far, as the major labels will soon discover as well.
Rule of the jungle, I’m afraid. Adapt or die.
Or flog off the shops and scarper, as Richard Branson did.
Virgin Megastores had headphones everywhere so you could scan any CD and listen to it before you bought it. You could spend a whole day listening to music before choosing to buy a CD and they gave you all kinds of vouchers every time you bought something. HMV had one poxy set of headphones by the tills that you had to ask to use and had to play the CD manually on FFS.
And being ten steps ahead Branson realised the game was up years ago and sold it all to Zavvi who failed completely and went bust. Yet even with all this going on HMV carried on as before till the brand was worth less than Gary Glitter’s back cataloge and now they’d be lucky to sell it to Rover Group for a tenner.
Ah yes – happy memories of spending many hours listening to vinyl discs in the booths at Army & Navy, with never any intention of ever buying one (too expensive for a poor skivvy like me in this days).
We can confirm that unemployment rate has just gone up by 60.
We can confirm that your unemployment rate will go up by 300,000 or more, as of 1st Jan 2014.
Be nice to your Romanian/Bulgarian comrades. Ensure they get the best social housing and schools. Celebrate the diversity. Bask in the warm glow of the Glorious EU.
By order.
300,000 of these?
If there is one thing Britain is not short of….it is sluts and whores.
And only half of them are larger than diane abbot.
I’m off to Romania!
Sadly the men look like Michael Howard.
Getting it ready for hedge fund to suck the guts out before burial!
Not to denigrate the staff, but really: What guts are there to suck out ?
The remaining stock is going to sold on EBay / car boot sales, and clearly wasn’t making enough to cover the rents and debt which is currently outstanding, apparently.
Hoping the fund in this case gets burned badly.
Some more of the tweets on twitpic:
Slow or what?
The staff in HMV were usually very nice and very helpful – it’s not their fault it’s closing down.
You know who we are going to blame. If only the glorious years from 1997 to 2010 could have continued. Oh how we loved the Utopia labour created.
Obnoxious, duplicitous charlatans the lot of you.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/31/bbc_28gate_legal_fees/
It looks like the marketing director found his answer – I’m getting a fail whale
Yes he’s killed a large chunk of twitter, oh the power!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/31/twitter_broken/
It looks like the marketing director found his answer – I’m getting a fail whale
Curious timing that – has something really just taken down twitter ?
Actually: Owen Jones did re-tweet the HMV messages out to his > 80k followers, a large %’age of which are likely unemployed militant social media types.
We can blame Owen Jones.
We are on with it
“unemployed militant social media types”
Or “cocks”, as they’re more commonly known.
Yes: Just felt like being polite.
“unemployed militant social media types”
= rich kids subsidized by their posh parents.
More commonly known as dickheads …
Or the next generation of Labour MP’s.
W.W.
(dick + head)/infinity = zero, actually.
The upper management at HMV are arrogant gobshites with air for brains, so they’re presumably all staying on as per…
I haven’t bought anything at full price from HMV for years. The only time I used to go in was to get the cheapo DVDs in the post Xmas sale. Then I realised if I was patient I could get the same DVDs 6 months later second hand off Amazon for 1p + £1.26 postage.
Poor buggers didn’t stand a chance.
The gramophone has a bright future!
Can anyone still. Buy. A cd or dvd in. London. Now that. Hmv. And virgin appersr to. Have closed ???
Download it.
That’s probably why they went bust.
Yes. You. Can.
Why. have. your. posts. got. all. the. dots. in?.
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Naughty.
Oh, please! Not another mystery! Can’t we have one suspect– just ONE!–come to the station and confess, for a change?
Because he. is. a dick. head.
Oh hold on.
You can still. Buy them from. A stall in. Chapel. Market.
Or get the second hand remastered copies from. Poundland if you happen not to mind whether you take home ac/dc. Or. Frank. Ifield or anything in. Between ….
If Chapel Market is in an enriched part of Londistan then no thank you.
Go for the win and assault your Marketing Director.
Why are most large British shops dull, shabby, muddly, poorly lit and overcrowded with displays? Why do we always have to queue if there is more than one customer in the shop? Why do they play muzak from the album Rejects Of The 1980s? Why are the staff harassed, underpaid kids who speak pidgin English and have no idea what the shop sells? Why do shops all stock the same things? Why does nobody in retail management appear to have any wit or pride?
The problem here is that corporates like to clone things that have been successful, only do it on the cheap. Formulaic shops in every identical shopping mall in the country.
I remember a very successful nightclub in Leeds called Cinderella Rockerfellas, twas owned by one Peter Stringfellow. He sold it for lots of dosh to Mecca. Now Mecca had a plan, copy it, but reduce expenditure, because thats what the accountancy suits said as they were horrified by the running costs. So, how did they trim the costs? Easy, when the carpets became scruffy, dirty and beer soddened, they said keep them. They cut out the live bands. They let anyone in. They put the prices up. IT CLOSED DOWN.
Accountants like to know the cost of things, they advise the board who also like to know the cost of things. They KNOW the cost of things that have been done before, so they encourage standardisation on an existing model. This inhibits change and keeping current. Trouble is they are pretty crap at estimating future sales as they don’t know what the opposition is planning in the way of new products or their pricing. Being entrepreneurial and bringing out new products in new formats is seen as too risky for many companies until its too late.
For most accountants that is quite true.
But then you get an aberrant. Let us take one. Fred we will call him for the sake of example. He joins a bank. Works his way up the chain quickly. Has no experience whatsoever about banks but neither has the new Chancellor of the Exchequer who creates a new regimeless regime. Fred has now got to the top of the tree and spots the opening. He can do things that no other banker can do before. He can spend money like water. He can lend to bad payers as that is more profitable (obviously – why hadn’t bankers thought of that in three previous centuries?) He can create illusory profits. He can even promote his bit on the side to HR Director of the bank and give her one over the desk in the office when the urge arises which it does quite frequently. He is even given a knighthood for his thrusting performance.
It goes on for ten glorious years before he is found out. It did not all end happily ever after. But the taxpayer still pays him a third of a million a year so it is not all bad.
So sometimes it can be good to be an accountant. Rather like politicians, you can now rely on them to do the wrong thing in the circumstances.
All names have been altered to protect the innocent. Except Fred’s name because he is not innocent.
Why do accountants not look out of the window in the mornings?
Otherwise there would be nothing to do in the afternoons that’s why.
I think the one bending over the desk, legs akimbo and thinking of the bonus was called Susan.
Whilst Fred did the Bor.
Good one, Dinosaur. They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
http://xhibit.justice.gov.uk/xhibit/southwark.htm
Trial starts next Monday.
Seems to be a lot of our ethnic friends on that link.
just musing.
Just mussying did you say?
http://www.london2018.info/
Should really open a book on how long Owen Jones’ mob are going to keep Twitter offline:
http://downrightnow.com/twitter
Looks like about 30 mins so far…
For those who may have missed this, I think it says it all:
HMV 2002 annual report: “the internet has settled down to become a worthwhile but minority channel to market”
Yes, we had a similiar marketing plan.
Yes and us
Elecricity is just a passing fad.
I bought it all on vinyl. You profited.
I bought it all again on audio tape. You profited.
I bought it all again on CD. You profited.
I downloaded it all for free. You lost.
Your business model is bust. Get used to it.
Nipper
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yS7Ph1Qh7_8/UPXQET5iMjI/AAAAAAAAA7o/dTkNzCBFtgs/s1600/hmv.jpg
A dog is set to be put to death in Tennessee today after his owner abandoned him because he thought he was gay.
The pitbull-type hound is currently languishing in an overcrowded animal shelter in Jackson but is due to be put this afternoon down unless a new owner can be found at the last minute.
According to the owner of the shelter, the dog’s master noticed him ‘hunched over’ another male dog, which led him to assume he was gay.
Mailonline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_displaying_homosexual_behavior
Fancy saying that giraffes display signs of homosexuality.
Some neck!
Don’t be so narrow-minded.
It said a cock can go two ways…
And ?
Here is an alternative approach:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1569248/Indian-man-marries-dog.html
So what….
Ed, don’t you see ? A policy !!!!
mind you some of those Afghan Hounds have got lovely coats. Just saying
Chapeau
I remember a South Park episode that could have sparked off the owner.
Oh, shoot, Twitter down. ** gulps ** What is a girl to do ? ** bends over dustbin, spreads legs, etc… **
Eh Sally old gal, is it o.k. if I park my bike while your doing business.
Park your bike? You could park your car.
W.W.
Nipper.
Let’s go round and break all the computers.
glorious leaders of glorious party have glorious records of all your multimedia interests. soon we shall gloriously start deleting films and music deemed not suitable for our glorious future and gloriously start rounding up people with entertainment tastes deemed subversive and putting them in our glorious attitude adjustment camps.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/31/bbc_28gate_legal_fees/
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/01/bbc-radio-2-folk-awards-bottom-of-the-class/
The £300 was to cover my travel and lunch expenses.
So you walked?
*snigger*
If I was PM, I would be pumping millions of tax payers money into HMV. HMV will be latest bandwagon.
Good idea Eddy, you put your millions in first and we will follow, when we get chance to go get a loan at a 1500%, can we say you will pay for it, it’s easier that way.
http://fxbites.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/going-to-dogs.html
The HMV director should call for Sally Bercow immediately. She could be a Tweet Consultant,
smiley Sal
Or he could just call in for a blow job.
If they have sacked them electronically perhaps they can calculate redundancy pay and pay that electronically today too.
who gets to keep the dog ?
John Bercow
Their redundancy will be paid in HMV gift vouchers.
WPP can help you shut down the social media
So can our colleagues at Bell Pottinger
We both have track records in “fixing” such things and then apologising when caught
This is what we do…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/9671471/Finsbury-edited-Alisher-Usmanovs-Wikipedia-page.html
For convicted criminals
How can you sack an unpaid intern?
Is this something the politicians invented?
Or journalists?
You don’t pay them but you offset them against tax.
Fred the Shed Accountancy.
Interesting background on HMV….
http://www.moneyweek.com/news-and-charts/economics/uk/right-side-the-real-reason-hmv-went-bust-62216
There’s no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.