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  LAT Will Sue Treasonous Blog-Loving Employees [The Workplace]

  Posted: October 8th, 2008, 12:09pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan

  Tags:  the workplace  

  It's just so perfect. Tribune Co. already boasts gnomish asshole CEO Sam Zell, who cusses out his own employees in public, and "Chief Innovation Officer" (ha) Lee Abrams, the dumbest guy in the newspaper industry. And now Eddy Hartenstein (pictured), who Tribune hired as the new publisher of the doomed LA Times last month, is telling LAT reporters that leaking memos to blogs is "treason":

  
  

  According to multiple sources at the Times, new publisher Eddy Hartenstein has been calling it "treason" for employees to share information with LA Observed...

  And yet, solid sources have let me know that current Times leadership is unhappy enough (or paranoid enough) about stuff getting out to consider action against staffers.

  Yes, they can sue all the employees that aren't already suing them! It's just common sense, people. As Lee Abrams said, "Are these amazing ideas? Not really." [LAO]

  
  

  

  
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  A New Way For Times Reporters To Track Their Own Status [The Workplace]

  Posted: October 1st, 2008, 10:13am CDT by Hamilton Nolan

  Tags:  the workplace  

  The New York Times launched its "social networking" feature TimesPeople months ago for no particular reason, and with no particular effect. Back then even top editor Bill Keller wasn't using it. But now he is! You know what this means, don't you? It's one more way for suckup Times reporters to track who the boss is favoring. Almost as good as looking at the front page! So what is Keller recommending? Let's see:

  

  Guess what kids: four of Bill Keller's five recommended stories have appeared right here on Gawker. I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

  
  

  

  
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  How To Keep Employees Happy, By Tucker Max [The Workplace]

  Posted: August 8th, 2008, 2:40pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan

  Tags:  the workplace  

  Blogger mentor Tucker Max runs a blog network called Rudius Media that is badass, bro. Earlier today we mentioned that one former Rudius blogger once worked for six months only to receive a check for less than a hundred bucks ($82, to be exact). Now that blogger, Brandon Woods, has helpfully forwarded us the email chain that ensued after he emailed Tucker—very politely, we might add—to ask how the hell he came to be paid such a paltry sum for half a year's work. Tucker Max's reply to him (which he also forwarded to six other people) is below. And, well, yea:

  Excuse me? Did you write the email below, or am I seeing things? Is this a joke?

  Have you let the very small amount of fame—that I am almost entirely
  responsible for—really go that much to your fucking head that you
  think you can talk to me that way?

  If you don't like our arrangement, if you don't like that fact that I
  found you as a complete nobody doing nothing and have given you the
  opportunity to reach the world, then you can go back to where you were
  when I found you.

  In fact, thats a good idea. You go ahead and go your own way. Let's
  see how you do when you don't have anyone to blame but yourself.

  Tucker's advice to Woods on how to make more money? An "offer to 'let' me drop out of college and become a prison guard so I could make another $100 writing for a different Rudius site."

  
  

  

  
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  Cult-like PR Firm Pays Employees With "Appreciation" [The Workplace]

  Posted: July 28th, 2008, 4:05pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan

  Tags:  the workplace  

  Money is such a fleeting pleasure. Wouldn't you rather work somewhere where you were rewarded with something "more valuable than cash": appreciation? Sure you would! So apply now at Chicago's Empower PR, which boasts high-powered clients ranging from "the nation’s leading sex therapist" to "Space Command’s 'Stress Doctor.'" And bosses, take note: "After implementing an 'appreciation beanbag toss' every week in his office (in which [the CEO] and his employees would toss a beanbag to each other and share meaningful appreciations), his clients tripled in number and his bottom line increased dramatically." See, paying with "appreciation" equals big savings! The full press release touting this revolutionary compensation plan, after the jump:

  2, 4, 6, 8…Who do we appreciate!?
  Makeover your workplace mentality with a little appreciation

  According to the old saying, “If you want to make money, you have to spend money.” However, many employers are finding that if you want to make money, you might need to spread something more valuable than cash. You need to spread appreciation.

  The new workplace concept of “profit through appreciation” creates an environment in which employers and employees share appreciation with one another. This positive feedback boosts morale, workplace productivity, employee loyalty, and employee happiness.

  CEO of Chicago-based Empower PR Sam Chapman learned the benefits of this new theory firsthand. After implementing an “appreciation beanbag toss” every week in his office (in which he and his employees would toss a beanbag to each other and share meaningful appreciations), his clients tripled in number and his bottom line increased dramatically.

  Sam states, “When my employees share their appreciation with one another, the happiness and productivity goes through the roof. It negates backbiting and jealousy, and my employees tell me appreciation day is the best day of the workweek! I wholeheartedly agree.”

  Please contact me if you would like to speak to Sam Chapman about how ‘profit through appreciation’ has changed his business and his life, or to hear about the unique and moving “appreciation beanbag toss” which happens every week in his office.

  Best,
  Lina

  
  

  

  
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  Ad People: Drunks [The Workplace]

  Posted: July 21st, 2008, 8:55am CDT by Hamilton Nolan

  Tags:  the workplace  

  The ad industry is home to even more barely-functioning alcoholics than related fields like media or pest control. While the average reporter at least waits until his last story is filed to hit the bar, ad agencies are installing bars right there in-house, so shaky, sweating employees can get some sips of their sweet, sweet medicine to help them focus on the task of thinking up jingles. Ha, no really it's all a very glamorous, Mad Men type of swinging party thing. At least that's what they want you to think.

  An Ad Age survey of in-house bars at agencies reveals that—much like alcoholics themselves—they run the gamut from classy to trashy. A condensed highlight version:

  The Homeless Drunk Beggar

  Too cheap to afford a real bar, Digitas in Chicago satisfies staff with a travelling beer cart. "It's operated by Digitas staffers who walk from desk to desk offering a selection of Miller beers (Digitas is Miller's interactive shop), water, soda, popcorn and occasional specialty drinks." In brown paper bags, presumably.

  The Frat Boy With A Burgeoning Problem

  TBWA/CHIAT/DAY in LA has a "Surf Bar" made of castoff surfboards in its office, where the agency throws keg parties. Yea.
  
  The Sad Hipster Drunk

  Rivet in St. Louis has a bar called "The Bar." It has a ping-pong table, and "it's stocked with Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, a client, as well as wine and other basic drinks." So, so sad.

  The Rich Alcoholic

  JWT in New York has a 50-foot-long, plush, futuristic-looking in-house bar with white decor. It's brand new, and all the Diageo liquor is subsidized, along with bar food. As JWT staffers leave their elegant parties they toss a few coins at Digitas staffers to buy something from their beer cart.

  [Ad Age]