The latest sedition of, Fox News actively makes you stupid

I once worked for a douchebag racist inherited-the-business-from-daddy buffoon. Born with a silver spoon, figured that made him admirable. Yeah not so much. Bu sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Sure was glad when that gig ended.

 

I have had terrible bosses, but they were never what Fox News appears to be. This isn't someone being overworked, set up to fail, etc.

Women and Minorities appear to have been treated in a way that lacked basic decency.

There is a difference between crappy job/boss and being treated with some respect/dignity.

 

My boss screened resumes for black names and addresses. If somebody got through the screen, then he would let that person fill out the application, then drop it in the trash after he left.

He was an enthusiastic Republican, belonged to a golf course that didn't permit Jews, the usual. Not that the Republican appeal is based on racism, oh no I would never say such a wicked thing. Or even hint of it.

 

I got you beat! I once worked for one of Sheldon Adelson's companies. One year they didn't give out the customary $250 year-end holiday bonuses because "times are tight and we all have to tighten our belts." Then in January, he drives up in a brand-new, powder blue Rolls Royce. 3 days later, someone smashed a jar of paint thinner on the hood. It literally could have been anyone. Well, maybe any of the 2/3 of the employees who were not relatives or close family friends, that is...

I guess my second cousin, Maynard Jones (who looks like William H. Macy, the main character in the movie Fargo), wouldn't have made the cut. Neither would Tanisha Johnson and Sharifa Smith, two white women I worked with at previous jobs.

 

He was. He laid off junior staff members in December 1987, two weeks before Christmas, because his stock portfolio had lost value. That was how I lost my first job. As brave entrepreneurs went ... he wasn't.

And yeah of course. He was tone deaf. The big man met with me personally to let me know how tough the decision was to let me go on December 15th, but things were hard, you know. Then he cheered up and told me about where he was taking the family in Florida for their annual winter vacation.

 

No, they wouldn't have made the cut. Tanisha and Sharifa, eh? Could have fooled me.

 

After the Bushpocalypse of 2008, I worked a few crummy jobs just to have a paycheck & benes. None worse than a firm in NYC. They were known as the inventor of the first money market fund. Although what I did had nothing to do with that. To get a feel of what complete asshats dad & sonny boy were during the 2008 meltdown, read this. Of course the old man was a Republican.


Photo: Buck Ennis

BENTS OUT OF SHAPE: The feds say Reserve's Bruce Bent Sr. (pictured) and Bruce Bent II misled investors last fall during a two-day, $40 billion run on their money funds.

The evening of Sept. 15, 2008, was the worst of Bruce Bent II's career. Panicked investors, who woke up that Monday morning to news of Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy, had yanked billions of dollars out of the money-market fund Mr. Bent ran with his father, money-market fund inventor Bruce Bent Sr. The business the Bent family had dedicated their lives to, Reserve Management Co., faced disaster if the run on their fund continued.

As the younger Mr. Bent, Reserve's president, sifted through his e-mails, he reviewed a statement drafted by his marketing staff to calm investors. The final line proclaimed that Reserve was “confident in the underlying credit strength and quality” of its holdings, which included hundreds of millions in debt from Lehman and other free-falling institutions, including Washington Mutual and Merrill Lynch.
“Drop the last line,” he directed, “and then go with it.”

Unfortunately, this editing job represented one of the few times Mr. Bent or his father, the chairman of Reserve, were honest with shareholders in the three terrible days their firm spiraled downward, according to regulators.

The Securities and Exchange Commission last week charged the Bents and Reserve with fraud, alleging that they failed to provide key information to customers, board members and credit-rating agencies after Lehman collapsed. Reserve and the Bents said they would support the $1-per-share asset value of their fund when in fact there was no such intention, the SEC contends. The agency also charges that Reserve misled directors and credit raters by significantly understating how many investors were yanking money after the Lehman bankruptcy hit.

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090510/FREE/305109979/inside-the-panic-at-reserve-fund

Post script - a few years ago they both got off. Apparently their excuse that "nobody could've predicted the market meltdown" worked in their favor. Even though they were gambling unnecessarily up till the collapse with a friggin money market fund.

 

And HRC called him deplorable.

Smugly.

So he had to do what a man's gotta do.

 

You worked for the Bents? Yeah, that's bad alright.

 

Yes briefly. It was like a circle of hell even for that short time. But since it was a dysfunctional NYC family operation, I now have a good feeling of what working for Trump Inc. must be like.

Imagine reporting to...gulp...Eric Trump.

 

On topic, may these ex-Fox employees win their lawsuit in a big way!

 

I worked for one place where, towards the end of my tenure, if you were one of the last ones to cash your check there, you weren't guaranteed it would clear.
I had another boss who prided herself on making employees cry. She was pretty pissed when I stood my ground against her. I don't think she was expecting that. It was an all female office. Fun times.

 

Hmmmm.....only 1 network seems to making lawsuit headlines in the MSM. Wonder why the other one isn't being talked about?

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When I left BentCo, the HR lady on the way out to the elevators asked me "Do you have any feedback about your tenure here?"

I said "Yeah. This is by far the worst outift I've ever worked for. That includes a pizzeria, dry cleaners & factory" DING! Elevator door opens & I get in. Her mouth was still wide open.

 

I think it is the third or fourth time today that someone tells you that "they do it too!" Is not a valid excuse.

 

Cascarino's must be a hell of a place... In the best possible way....

 

Well,there is the NBA...

 

Bleeding genital wart and Fox Newz host Jesse Watters taking a forced family vacation:

Jesse Watters.Fox News

Fox News' Jesse Watters reportedly is taking a vacation, one day after making what some saw as suggestive remarks about Ivanka Trump.

CNN's Brian Stelter and the CNNMoney media team reported on Wednesdaythat Watters, who is a cohost of "The Five," would miss two days of his first week in the show's 9 p.m. time slot.

"I'm going to be taking a vacation with my family, so I'm not going to be here tomorrow," Watters said on Wednesday night's show. "I'll be back on Monday, so don't miss me too much."

http://www.businessinsider.com/jesse-watters-ivanka-trump-2017-4

 

If I were somehow ever an employee of FOX News, I would constantly be afraid of vacations.

 

If I were somehow ever an employee of FOX News, I would constantly be afraid of white American guys asking me if I brought tacos for lunch and how my family celebrates cinco de Mayo.

 

I had a shitty job for about ten days when I was in my final semester of ugrad school. I took a temp job at a place that made surgical sheets for hospitals. These sheets came on a yuge roll, like bathroom tissue, and the roll was constantly moving, about 5 rpm. Our job was to lift each sheet as it was cut from the roll and place it on a large table, then return for the next sheet. When we got 12 sheets on the table, we had t fold them into one stack and carry them to another large table, then return to the roll line. Because the roll never stopped moving, you had to keep abreast of how many sheets you'd prepared to be folded. Had to be groups of 12. If you piled 13, problem. 11, problem. So you didn't have the luxury of mentally transporting yourself someplace while you were working. It was (in your head) "8... 9... 9... 9... 10... 10... 10...". It was mind-numbing, to say the least. Second day I took lunch with the full-timers, and I saw nothing in their eyes that told me anyone was home. I realized right there that I was a student looking for a profession and that I didn't need to dull anymore brain cells working for these folks.

Wow. Add Maynard to the list of baby names you don't see White folks using anymore... Leon, Curtis, Otis, Nathaniel, Calvin, Marcus, Maurice, Leroy, Tyrone, Reginald, Andre, Roderick and Rodney

No, Tanisha and Sharifa would have been culled early.