TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

AOL’s about as low as it gets:

You’ve heard of “shooting the messenger”? AOL shot the messenger who delivered its own message. You’ve got fail.

Oh, but it wasn’t enough to fire her. AOL had to pull a “Mission: Impossible” and disavow all knowledge of what she’d said, and publicly shame her for saying it. My friend Kim Voynar has reliable sources who say that when this poor woman left the meeting in which her employment had been terminated, she saw her coworkers already reading about it on the Internet. AOL had leaked it to a writer for the Wall Street Journal…

What a great way to get employees to do their best work for you—make clear to them the company will sell you out at any time it might even appear to be convenient.

(Via Marco Arment.)