It's official (now): Whitlock leaving the KC Star

Frederick, I'm still waiting on Whitlock to explain how the KCS could have been better run. Other than putting more emphasis on the Whitlock brand, of course.

 

the classic line for non-credibles:

"I was lying before. Now I'm telling the truth."

 

Elliott, you said in a more scholarly, professional tone what I was trying to say.

I can't believe you agree with this in the long prior post, however:
He said: "In other words, Whitlock spent four hours telling his listeners that the KC Star is like newsrooms, law offices, hospitals, police stations, auto dealerships, grocery stores and factories all over the country. Put enough employees in one place and politics, sex and bureaucracy will break out"

So every work place in America has promotions based on, in Whitlock's words, "inappropriate relations" and going out with the superior to curry favor by getting "high and drunk (whitlock's words)?" What a country.

 

Have you never watched Mad Men?

 

Fredrick, you and Whitlock are the only people I've ever heard suggest that Lawton got a promotion for anything other than being good at her job. Whitlock has little credibility, and as you keep pointing out, nobody else close to Whitlock or The Star has backed him up one bit.

 

Roughly 100,000 claims relating to discrimination/hostile work environment are filed with the EEOC every year. Some of those claims will feature disgusting behavior. Some of those claims will end up in federal court. How many of those claims will end up being written about in the local newspaper? I really don't think the media normally reports on hostile work environment claims in the private sector absent extraordinary circumstances.

That's a very nice strawman you constructed. Note that I did not say "every work place in America" and note that I did not say that those work places involved the exact examples given by Whitlock. But you're too busy looking for a carrot to serve as the nose for your strawman to notice.

But the general idea that sex is common among co-workers, people will curry favor with the boss by doing what the boss does (how many people who hate golf go golfing so they can suck up to their boss?) and the bureaucracy always trumps the individual (which pretty much sums up The Wire) ... yeah, those happen pretty much everywhere.

 

The quote is, "Yesterday I was lying. Today I'm telling the truth."
Attributed to Bob Arum.

 

"You cannot be serious!"

 

Maybe nobody from that part of the country reads this site?

 

Or maybe they see him as a pompous boor who loves to point out problems, yet never offers solutions on fixing them.

 

He claims he presented his vision of the sports pages and was offered the SE job. That's trying to solve problems right there, if he told the truth.