QUOTE(The Joy @ Tue 6th May 2008, 4:35am)
If I'm understanding Birgitte correctly, the amount of stress and public scrutiny just isn't worth the aggravation by working for the WMF.
To quote the immortal David Letterman: "I wouldn't give his troubles to a monkey on a rock."
David Shankbone alluded to that when I suggested that the WMF seemed to cope OK without the anonymity.
I would think that anyone involved in a public facing company is going to come under public scrutiny. I suspect that being in charge of Wikipedia is on the same level as say running Second Life or Half Life or whatever those new fangled online game thingies are called. Seems like running OverStock suffers the same issue.
I can quite understand: going into a company that has such a high public profile, the main "customers" are a bunch of kids who don't have a clue and have starry eyed ideals about how everything should be magically perfect, and also realising that you have joined a bench of amateurs who haven't a clue and are making it up as they go along.
I wouldn't do it. I've dropped out of working for that sort of company, one's that don't see how proper accounting is relevant because they have more important things to do and then want you to dig through 2 years worth of computer records to find out whether they are rich or bankrupt (and they are so stressed out they don't actually care which any more!).