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Thanks for the great run, Chris! You'll be missed greatly!

Good luck on the job hunt. I hear Education, Government, and Healthcare jobs are the most secure...

Good-bye Chris. Hope you land on your feet.

Damn it Consumerist! Why!
Chris, I always loved your posts, you will be missed. Take care, and good luck in all your future endeavors.

I hear the Tesla plant in MI is hiring!

Oh, wait...

The site won't be the same without you, Chris. You're dry sarcastic humor kept me coming back for more! You will be missed.

Thanks for everything Chris. Hopefully we can be like all the cool companies and hire back everyone we just fired on a freelance basis.

Chris thanks so much for your excellent work. You'll be missed around here.

This whole downsizing thing really bites, and it's terrible to see talent like Chris go.

Hey, Gawker chief dude: this impacts the quality of great sites like Consumerist and lowers the # of page views I'll be making on a daily basis. I know advertisers are going to cut back on media buys, but a decline in readership isn't going to help you sink any juicy new contracts either. I'm not a media mogul--but what is the strategy to attract advertisers to sites like Consumerist, anyway? Seems to me too many of them would be afraid to buy space here, given the general topics.

That's why this site, which shows up in Digg and Reddit all the time, is really your workhorse. Consumerist is the gateway blog to other Gawker sites where you make your marketing dollars. I found Consumerist on Digg and quickly became addicted to Jezebel and Gawker, too--but if not for Consumerist, I might have never found you guys. Less writers = less insightful posts = less Digg traffic = less overall traffic = less marketing revenue, in my very humble opinion.

Happy trails Chris.
Take care.

Now you'll be able to do even bigger and better things with the knowledge that you've kept it real for the little guys (those of us who don't own multinational corporations but still have to deal with them). Thanks man.

First of all, AWESOME pic and title. Go Bender.

More importantly, great job at Consumerist, we are sad to see you go. Best of luck in the future, I'm sure you'll land on your feet.

Chris, anything I could have said will ever equal 1% of what you did for this site. You were part of the reason I joined Consumerist as a meek reader, and blossomed into the commenter I am now. I'm not sure your beliefs, but "May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk."

@rainbowsandkittens: I agree about the reduced traffic. Cutting quality staff members won't help in the long run.

Best of luck, Chris.

Congrats Chris and godspeed on all your future endeavors.

Big Gulps, huh? Welp, see ya later!

@Ben Popken: That'd be funny if it wasn't so true, Ben.

@InfiniTrent: My friend's a little slow. The town is THAT way.

Take care friend!

Chris - Always loved your tech-consumer stories. Enjoyed your few political posts (dont forget to add the (D) on the end of peoples names). Good luck to you!

@rainbowsandkittens:

You're right, Consumerist was my first Gawker experience... Now my firefox tabs are all Gawkerized.

I'll miss your posts, good luck out there and I hope this is just a springboard for better work. You've done the community a great service.

Chris, you'll be missed. Damn these cutbacks, damn them to hell!

If it's any consolation, the recession's been hard on superheroes, too. Darn the luck! Darn, darn, DARN!

@Bladefist: To hell with the (D). And the (R).

Chris, you have comprehensively made my day. :) (And as my day consists of coughing up a lung with bronchitis, I totally needed it!)

We will definitely miss you down here in comment-land!

We'll miss you!

Is anyone seeing a "minimized" view of first posts in new threads? I'm not talking about responses, but about single posts.

If Consumerist isn't able to help with keeping my daughter alive, I'm not really interested in their politics. Some pretty silly stories, in between the good ones. Some not so silly, but downright wrong. Some really made a difference.
That said, I think it's pretty dumb for the layoffs. There is about a gazillion ways to troll for cash on the Internet. (Legally and ethically, or ethically and legally...) You can improve the website in ways that can provide real results in the cash column...
That said again, JUST like the companies a lot of us have issues with, Consumerist in reality has cut their customer service staff. Writers like Chris provide the customer service, we use it and in some cases like my daughter, (Who's story was never mentioned..) people depend on the website for results. That's an awesome responsibility really. So I doubt seriously, as good as Ben may, or may not be, this website and the challenges laid before it can be dealt with. So once again, there goes the customer service department. So really the headlines should read on Consumerist: "Consumerist Cuts Customer Service Representatives, Job Impossible..."
Or some such.
I'm guessing the thinking is somewhere around what CNN and other websites have done, like CNN's iReport section. Saves on actually having reporters do the work and let's face it, they receive free news tips and video, much like this website. (Hence the responsibility.)
I really hate accountants. I think we should gather them all up and put them on an island with a calculator that doesn't work right and complaint box with no holes in it. Also a shortage of all the things they might actually need. Say clothes, food, heating & cooling, medicine and medical supplies. Of course no customer service for anyone and the thing they would need most, therapy... ;)
We could put them on an island right next to marketing personnel island and the career politicians island. Then to save money the U.S. Navy...

I was actually shocked to see myself get a personal shout-out in your good-bye post. Admittedly, I have a tendency to point out all the flaws in the "victims" story, and occasionally advocate for the person who is not the victim (a/k/a "blame the victim). I am glad to see that the editors indeed can respect the views of the other side of the story, and can even enjoy/accept comments critical of the victim. Good luck in your future endeavors Chris, you'll be missed.

Good luck!

@Eyebrows McGee: LOL- I totally did the whole 'ZOMG! That's ME! MY NAME! On CONSUMERIST!'

And feel better, I battled bronchitis for a month last winter. Ugh.

@InfiniTrent: I am too.

@Rhayader: Its an inside story. :)

@Ayo:

Agree, I'm a regular Consumerist reader, its the only one saved in my faves and then I jump over to Jezzie, Gawker, LifeHacker, etc.

We'll miss you Chris.

Chris, you will be missed! I always liked your stories.

may you be able to use your experience at consumerist as a positive on your resumes rather than have HR folks saying "hrm, troublemaker...."

you will be missed

Good luck Chris!

@InfiniTrent: Yes, it's driving me nuts!!! I have to keep clicking the plus signs.

Man, I'm going to miss your super photoshop jobs. Reading your stories was always worth it just for the accompanying photo.

Wow. Well, to once again infuriate you I'll say this- you totally sucked. Your articles were crap, your writing was pedestrian, and your wit was humorless. All in all I'd say you had this coming.

Naw, just kiddin'. Really, good luck. This kind of thing really sucks but you've probably already got something lined up. I hope they at least gave you a rockin' severance!

Now since you're outta there, can you finally tell us the truth about posting quotas? :)

Here is to lucrative and fulfilling - I hope you find both in short order.

@zigziggityzoo: Maybe the CPSC will be hiring in the next administration. Looks like they're only hiring only hiring lawyers and mathematical statisticians right now.

@rainbowsandkittens: Yup. Used to go to Gawker, Defamer, Giz, Lifehacker, io9, Valleywag, Consumerist and Kotaku.
Now (in light of Chris & Carey getting the boot, Mr Denton) I come here, i09 and scan Kotaku for Blizz or Valve stories. And participate mainly here and i09.

So yeah, 1/2 my Gawker browsing, owing to the fact that I realized that, while Mr Denton is preternaturally quick to cut staff and change how they pay their staff downward to anticipate downward trends, he isn't nearly as quick to anticipate paying more in anticipation of growth. (not that I'd expect him to, but let's call it like it is: a bald-faced crutch to squeeze money out of his staffer's pockets into his own). I'm probably not alone.

I owe Consumerist for strengthening in me the recognition that one should consume with a higher purpose in mind: when you buy a product, you're supporting the whole operation. Spend judiciously.

And I owe Chris for a line that I use shamelessly on an at-least-weekly basis: if you don't have a problem with this, you're a s-l-a-v-e! Except not when visiting Mom, because she's old-school about corporal punishment, withering sarcasm and the single upraised eyebrow.

Loved your posts, Chris, your were filled with vim, vigor and vinegar. And were often very funny. And always informative. You'll be missed!

@Ayo: same here... i came for the consumerist, and stayed for the lifehacker and gizmodo

@InfiniTrent: Yes, and when I hit the plus sign they disappear.

To Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: One of the funniest things I read all year was your idea to breed fainting-goat children in order to protect regular kids from playground predators. I wish I'd thought of that.

shitty indeed. Thankfully they're not laying off us readers and commenters, too.

I am guilty (as are probably the majority of readers) of not keeping an eye on the by-line so I suggest to the Gawker Media network, that since you're having to cinch the waist so much and that might put off your writers, try increasing the visibility of the name of the contributors (scrambles to find a blog that does that semi-decently... and couldn't so here's one that at least places the blogger name under the title: [amazingtechproducts.com]).

Gonna miss you... (scans up page for name) Chris. And having now checked out your repetoire, I realize I AM going to miss you!

Good luck with everything! You'll be missed!