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What does this guy have against American Airlines? As if getting one of their designers fired from his day job [1] wasn't enough. I personally don't see what i

What does this guy have against American Airlines? As if getting one of their designers fired from his day job [1] wasn't enough. I personally don't see what is so bad about the new redesign. I guess I just have horrible taste. [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6531610/American-Airlines-worker-fired-for-replying-to-web-user-complaint.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6531610/America...

rosser 14y ago
How is the designer responding to Curtis' complaints of his own free will, and then Curtis decrying AA's firing the designer "getting [the designer] fired"?
- tptacek 14y ago
  It isn't. He asked if the guy was OK having his mail published. The guy said yes. Anyone who says Curtis got him fired is saying a lot more about their biases than about anything that happened.
  - w1ntermute 14y ago
    You're conveniently ignoring the fact that he explicitly called for AA's designers to be fired without understanding how a big company operates: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4996236 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4996236
    - tptacek 14y ago
      I'm ignoring it because it's a stupid point. AA did not fire anyone because Dustin Curtis is an authority on UX. They fired the guy --- stupidly --- for airing dirty laundry on the blog of someone who just wrote a rant about their UX. Only on a nerd message board would this be a point that even bore argument. What, are you scared Dustin Curtis is going to get YOU fired next? OOGA BOOGA.
gee_totes 14y ago
Umm... AA fired the designer, after he wrote back to Dustin Curtis with "an amazing response describing some of the design problems faced in large corporations."[0] [0]http://www.dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html http://www.dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html
tptacek 14y ago
This comment is so facile someone could have written a script to generate it.

rosser 14y ago

How is the designer responding to Curtis' complaints of his own free will, and then Curtis decrying AA's firing the designer "getting [the designer] fired"?

tptacek 14y ago
It isn't. He asked if the guy was OK having his mail published. The guy said yes. Anyone who says Curtis got him fired is saying a lot more about their biases than about anything that happened.
- w1ntermute 14y ago
  You're conveniently ignoring the fact that he explicitly called for AA's designers to be fired without understanding how a big company operates: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4996236 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4996236
  - tptacek 14y ago
    I'm ignoring it because it's a stupid point. AA did not fire anyone because Dustin Curtis is an authority on UX. They fired the guy --- stupidly --- for airing dirty laundry on the blog of someone who just wrote a rant about their UX. Only on a nerd message board would this be a point that even bore argument. What, are you scared Dustin Curtis is going to get YOU fired next? OOGA BOOGA.

gee_totes 14y ago

Umm... AA fired the designer, after he wrote back to Dustin Curtis with "an amazing response describing some of the design problems faced in large corporations."[0] [0]http://www.dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html http://www.dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html

tptacek 14y ago

This comment is so facile someone could have written a script to generate it.