Having succeeded in doing very little to plug those gaping holes quickly taking on water, Conde Nast management is now directing its frustration at lowly wage apes, instituting a "fraud hotline" so workers can rat out their colleagues for stealing, falsifying company records and appropriating intellectual property, as Keith Kelly broke late this afternoon. (Yeah, padded expense reports: that's the burning issue over there.) But ain't it always the way it is at these failing companies: blame employees for the downfall of the place, turn them against one another, and finally procure still more names for that list of worker bees to be dumped out onto the curb like a bunch of discarded Annie Leibovitz contact sheets. Beats the hell out of actually producing magazines consumers want to buy, selling ads and coming up with innovative ways to otherwise save your ass, we suppose.
Tuesday, February 2
Waterlogged Conde Nast Does That Which All Sinking Ships Eventually Do: Blame the Crew
Having succeeded in doing very little to plug those gaping holes quickly taking on water, Conde Nast management is now directing its frustration at lowly wage apes, instituting a "fraud hotline" so workers can rat out their colleagues for stealing, falsifying company records and appropriating intellectual property, as Keith Kelly broke late this afternoon. (Yeah, padded expense reports: that's the burning issue over there.) But ain't it always the way it is at these failing companies: blame employees for the downfall of the place, turn them against one another, and finally procure still more names for that list of worker bees to be dumped out onto the curb like a bunch of discarded Annie Leibovitz contact sheets. Beats the hell out of actually producing magazines consumers want to buy, selling ads and coming up with innovative ways to otherwise save your ass, we suppose.
