The store of Googlers worth poaching must be running out. Facebook has turned to taking geeks from TechCrunch — specifically CrunchBase product manager Ben Meyer. Michael Arrington groped for the appropriate words to express his outrage.

"Stay the hell away from our employees, Facebook, and fill your employment quotas elsewhere. Anyone else, and I declare war," he wrote. Gee, Michael, did it ever occur to you that Meyer merely wanted to work for a less bellicose boss?

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