Benjamin Sumner's Website

It’s vindicating for me to see the death of the Away Network. I hadn’t even been there two weeks in 2005 before realizing I was working with so many incompetent people. While I stayed there, miserably, for more than four years before I was unceremoniously dismissed, the constant disfunction and poor management, not to mention foolishness by the parent company, ultimately led to its closure a few years ago.

The advantages of working there? I made a living, though I was perfectly capable of working elsewhere. I followed in the footsteps of my colleagues who mooched free trips off of PR agencies and traveled the world (little did those agencies know just how little influence our website actually had). I learned some new systems, got some different work experiences. For that, I can’t say my time there was a total waste, though it was by far the darkest, most painful period of my life.

RIH, Away.