Brutal story, great, haunting read. Including the mortgage angle made sense to me, given how smart she clearly was, because it indicates how her judgement eroded.
Patch had and lost a tremendous growth opportunity when AOL deployed a series of truly unfortunate short-term and poorly conceived strategic initiatives, from changing up audience drivers every few weeks (then dropping them) to putting HuffPo in charge.
Many feet-on-the-ground staffers...
Disagree. Escalating a confrontation under these circumstances is not a solution. Things have gotten out of hand.
Yeah, the cop may have said things in anger; but how would you feel if some irritated source wrote every manager in your organization to complain about you (a safe bet anyone in...
What Rick Stain said. Also: How long have you covered police news? And how do you define ongoing lack of cooperation? Sometimes cops come off as uncooperative when they — for legal reasons — can't share information. It takes a long time to build trust with police sources, imho, longer than most...
No, never underestimate such loosers. Police say Holland man recorded video of himself, son, another man raping passed-out 17-year-old girl: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/10/police_say_holland_man_recorde.html
Good gravy, this gave me a Hillsdale College flashback, though it has a truly sadder ending: http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/01/19/hillsdale/print.html
I feel your pain, but this will not end well. As Ace indicated, your previously falsified time (however well intentioned) can be used as grounds for firing. Your current plan is a form of blackmail -- can't imagine the boss responding well -- and your leverage beyond denial of OT is what?
The...