Since Maven took over SI it hasn’t been a smooth ride.
Maven laid off about 9% of the staff last week and Wahl who has been at the company for decades wasn’t pleased.
Awful Announcing at the time explained why he was so upset.
Thanks to social media, we know how at least one remaining SI staffer views Maven’s recent moves. Soccer writer Grant Wahl vented his feelings about Maven’s layoffs in a series of Instagram stories that were also posted on Twitter.
The three posts have since been deleted, but are still available to read, thanks to screencaps:
Several longtime SI staffers were let go in this wave of layoffs including Chris Ballard, Jack Dickey, and Laken Litman. While some high-profile writers like Pat Forde (who joined SI five months ago), Tom Verducci, and Wahl remain, the climate is obviously tense and uncertain while morale is understandably low.
He deleted the messages, but one can assume that is what led to him being fired with no severance.
Flip the page for his tweet about being fired and the deleted IG messages.