Re: PING! Michael

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, clams casino wrote:

On 11/26/2024 2:42 AM, D wrote:

  On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, dsi1 wrote:
 

Lanai is like a freakin mysterious island located in the middle of
nowhere. What goes on in Lanai, stays in Lanai.
 Like my daddy, I never trusted the rich and powerful. It seems that
America has sold its soul to the rich/powerful and pledged allegiance to
these devils. That's the breaks.

 One of the most powerful things you can do, to protect yourself from the rich
and powerful, is to not make money and profit one of the primary aims in your
life. If you do that, the rich and powerful will have much less hold on you,
than if you make money your god. In the latter case, you can always be bought.

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Nothing better than being "bought", then shown the door, and then rebooting through the ultimate benefactor - PBS!

Ahh, the logic of businesslife! I remember an employee who had a very unique role running Ericssons ERP system, and he was made redundant. Upon hearing it, he tried to explain that his role was crucial to the operation of the system that their entire finance system was running on and numerous other dependencies, but no, he had to go.
7 days after he left, they called and asked if he wanted to come back as an employee with a 3% raise, but they had angered him.
After him refusing a couple of times, he came back as a consultant, full time, charging them 400 EUR per hour. =)
Another colleague was angry with his employer, and left for a startup, which after 6 months was acquired by the same employer. After some time, he left again, only to be acquired again 12 months later.
I think he resigned himself to his fate after that, and is now probably since long happily retired.

https://www.thedailymeal.com/1406597/who-chef-christopher-kimball-why-did-he-leave-americas-test-kitchen/
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Christopher Kimball's exit from America's Test Kitchen may have been amicable at first, but all feelings of goodwill were demolished when he launched Christopher Kimball's Milk Street in 2016. This was another food media brand complete with a magazine first released in October 2016. In true Kimball fashion, Milk Street did not rely on the written word alone. The TV program "Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Television" first aired in September 2017, and was soon joined by a weekly radio show "Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio" hosted by Kimball himself. A new media empire was beginning to emerge.
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Much like America's Test Kitchen, Christopher Kimball's Milk Street also boasts a culinary school with online lessons for subscribers to learn from. Kimball even released a new cookbook "Christopher Kimball's Milk Street: The New Home Cooking" only 13 months after the magazine was first published.
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Kimball was sued by America's Test Kitchen's parent company
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Prior to the settlement, America's Test Kitchen's CEO David Nussbaum made it clear the company had not suffered from Kimball's departure. In a 2018 interview with Forbes he said, "Despite a change in show hosts, ATK and Cook's Country TV remain the top two practical cooking shows on television. We've improved our technology, increased our social-media budget by four times, [and] built best-in-class studios and kitchens." Regardless of the security of America's Test Kitchen, both parties were reportedly eager to avoid a court hearing.
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Kimball also went through two additional lawsuits
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Read More: https://www.thedailymeal.com/1406597/who-chef-christopher-kimball-why-did-he-leave-americas-test-kitchen/
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