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Alarmed

Thanks Kelly for all you have done for me and many other exclusive contributors at Istockphoto.You will be missed

Posted by: shank_ali on 19 Jan 2012 at 21:38

Klein is Spinning a Yarn

"some positions become redundant"

Bullshit. Many of the people who were let go were valuable employees and site contributors. The one thing that differentiated these people was their ability to think freely and ask the right questions when needed.

The days of istock of old are gone.

I echo that Kelly will be missed... and the lovely intelligent people Getty Images let go.

Posted by: Long Time Contributer on 20 Jan 2012 at 02:59

It was about time....

Istock has been a big mess and reading through the forums you can see how upset contributors are. Istock is standing at the edge of the cliff, so it was time to find some people who can handle that billion $ company!

Posted by: Istock Contributor on 20 Jan 2012 at 04:58

Good Riddance

Why not just shut down the entire company?
It has brought nothing but crap to the industry lowering the bar for art direction and creativity all for a dollar. Good riddance.

Posted by: snackwell on 20 Jan 2012 at 21:24

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Posted by: boomyadav on 22 Jan 2012 at 12:09

You reap what you sow.

Why not just do the entire industry a favour and shut down istock ? Its caused nothing but misery for photographers. Istock is moaning about loosing 30 staff, but how many thousands of photographers have gone out of business (ie lost their jobs) at the hands of this company? As the saying goes, "you reap what you sow".

Posted by: Peter on 26 Jan 2012 at 21:47

Alarmed Shank-Ali's comment (1st one)

Strange to see the infamous Shank_Ali saying something positive about iStockphoto. Up until last August (while he was banned from the iStock forums) he daily posted negative comments on the MSG forums. You can search them all here, http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/shank_ali_reborn/?sa=showPosts

Amazing how people can chance so quickly once their allowed back on the forums - I think it's like the Stockholm Syndrome with some iStock exclusives.

Posted by: Another iStock Contributor... on 27 Jan 2012 at 16:25

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