Today's cautionary tale comes in the form of one Judith Griggs, editor of a magazine called Cooks Source. She was running up against a deadline and was short an article for the magazine so she did what any desperate person might do, she went online, found something relevant and stole it for her own use.
Where things get really interesting is when she gets caught stealing content and then tries to spin it into her doing the owner of the content a favor by editing it. She even has the gall to suggest the original author PAY HER for her work in editing the article.
It gets better and better (and by that I mean worse and worse) for Judith since she's apparently got a rather huge ego that makes her think her dookie smells like Irish Spring or something. There is plenty more to enjoy, check out the story in greater detail, Cooks Source 'Apology' Really A Rant Blaming The Woman It Copied For Daring To Tell People.
Judith's venture is now, apparently, folding as a result of the exposure from her theft and subsequent follow up ego-driven idiocy. I highly doubt she'll learn from this but one can hope. The thing of it is that she could have diffused the situation at several points but choose to escalate things and caused her company to fail as a result. And that is definitely What Not To Do!
Rule #322 is Do Not Steal Your Magazine's Content
Update: Here's the original blog post by the original author, Monica Gaudio.
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