Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Tales of the city: Here's a not-so-fabulous fable

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a regional group executive in a very well-known kingdom of newspapers. His name was -- well, let's just call him Snidely.

Snidely was a very, very, very naughty regional group executive. You see, Snidely liked his paper's facilities department to come to his home and do all sorts of work -- at the kingdom's expense, of course. Among the many things Snidely demanded:
  • An addition on his house
  • An outdoor deck
  • Custom-stained wainscoting in the den
  • Installation of kitchen cabinets
  • Furnace repair
  • Landscaping
But then one day, a lowly serf decided that this was not a good thing. The serf complained to the kingdom's chief ethics officer. And do you know what happened to Snidely? Absolutely nothing. He lived happily ever after. (Or so he thinks . . .)

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5 comments:

  1. A disclaimer: Do not draw any conclusions because I choose to publish -- or to not publish -- any comments you may leave on this post. The fact that I do not publish a comment on this post should not be inferred as confirmation of anything you have written.

    So, with all of that boring legalese: Let the speculation begin!

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  2. Yep. Lived it. The local Criminal Investigation unit of the IRS is located across from the production plant from Snidely's former property. They won't have far to go.

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  3. Its is not only Gannett papers, were this happen? I know of situations, similar, involving, some former executive connected to Thomson's newspapers. The newspapers, are now owned by Gannett. He left just before Gannett took over.

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  4. You know, I'm not sure that Snidely knows that there is this wonderful world of web blogs, since he was a rather old fashion villian (no computer). Hopefully someone can lead him to a computer so he too can enjoy.

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  5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NvgLkuEtkA

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