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> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:12:38 -0400
> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] the modern worklife
>
> At 10:00 AM -0400 5/25/04, <newsfeed at mediabistro.com> wrote:
>> BLOOMBERG STAFFERS COMPLAIN ONLINE
>> Employee morale is so low at Michael Bloomberg 's news company,
>> Bloomberg LLC, that staffers have taken to complaining anonymously
>> on ourbloomberg.com.
>> http://www.nypost.com/gossip/21523.htm
>> http://www.ourbloomberg.com/
>
> OurBloomberg redirects to a Newspaper Guild site, so this isn't
> exactly spontaneous kvetching. But the demands on employee time are
> amazing:
>
>> Matt Winkler asked Princeton employees in January to compare
>> priorities between their families and homes - and their jobs. If
>> your personal life comes first, you shouldn't work for Bloomberg,
>> Matt said. Matt has tried to impose mandatory minimum 10-hour
>> workdays more than once in the past year. He's even asked a team
>> leader to interrupt a reporter's vacation by doing work for
>> Bloomberg - while the one freedom the Bloomberg Way clearly states
>> is that the staff is entitled to be out of communication when on
>> vacation.
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