Will Office Pirates Sail Away?

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We started out skeptical about the office humor website OfficePirates.Com. It was a good idea pitched to a desirable audience–young men chained to the cubicles all day. But could a Time Inc. sponsored site really live up to the task? It seemed likely that corporate constraints would require OfficePirates content to remain somewhere on the scale from tame to lame. Even if there is a market for a Safe for Work version of consumptionjunction.com [very, very NSFW] , there is a reason why so many of the best blog are run by independent companies or individuals.
Today while stopping by Wall Street Folly we learned that OfficePirates.Com might be headed for rough seas. We hope its not true. Sometimes we don’t want to be right.

Office Pirates: These days their Jolly Roger isn’t so Jolly [WallStreetFolly]

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    Comments (5)

    1. 1
      Posted by Don | August 9, 2006 at 2:25 PM

      what does that say about Dealbreaker then?
      http://www.alexaholic.com/dealbreaker.com+officepirates.com

    2. 2
      Posted by John Carney | August 9, 2006 at 4:03 PM

      That’s like comparing Marquee and Milk & Honey. We have a more exclusive, desirable readership.

    3. 3
      Posted by Coward | August 9, 2006 at 4:17 PM

      Wait, John, so is Dealbreaker Marquee or Milk & Honey in this example?

    4. 4
      Posted by John Carney | August 9, 2006 at 4:37 PM

      Clearly Milk & Honey. Amazing clientele. The best conversations. Run by a guy who grew up in Greenwich Village. Filled up with well-made cocktails, and based downtown. No respect for celebrities.

    5. 5
      Posted by Johnny Debacle | August 10, 2006 at 10:15 AM

      I don’t understand why they would shut it down, unless they have way way over staffed it. It gets decent traffic and could be run with 6 people easily, banking $1mm+ in revenue (based on how it compares to some other sites in terms of PV’s) assuming no growth. Of course, Time probably has 100 people working on it.
      It’s also terrible but that’s irrelevant to shutting it down.
      Why don’t they just post stalker perv pictures solely? They would get much more traffic. The thing is tepid like sex with a geriatric.

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