Business Week: A Hellhole?

Posted by guest, Jun 17, 2008 11:04AM

what kind of idea does "a hellhole riven by internal backstabbing, sniping, and intra-office gossip wars" bring to mind ?

Posted by guest, Jun 17, 2008 11:12AM

sounds like dealbroker

Posted by guest, Jun 17, 2008 11:36AM

is it just me or has it become even more anti-business and populist than usual? I was given a subscription and I think I need to cancel it since its biased reporting pisses me off so much every time I pick it up....

Posted by mrpink, Jun 17, 2008 11:37AM

Reminds me of Bear Stearns

-mrp

Posted by american bandersnatch, Jun 17, 2008 11:41AM

My dad was a veteran of the Intra-office Gossip Wars. Took some shrapnel at the Battle of Unsubstantiated Rumors and was invalided home. Still tells stories about cowering in the trenches as emails were flying back and forth.

Posted by Lowly Assistant, Jun 17, 2008 12:51PM

AB deserves a sandwich for reminding us all of the courage it truly takes to step into the office each day. Whether it be an inter-office envelope to the head or a malicious individual with copious amounts of documents to scan, we should be proud of the sacrifices we make to ensure the desks of the future are passed down to equally ambitious young men and women.

Veni, vidi, vici. Le chaim.

Posted by Headless Horseman, Jun 17, 2008 1:06PM

Total value of a one-year subscription to Business Week < value of paper on which it's printed.

The only pieces in which those clowns aren't absolutely wrong are the ones where they haven't an opinion. Their propensity for editorializing aside, their journalists (expanding the definition such that it now encompasses anyone who can spell) are still generally misinformed and exhibit virtually no depth of thought. In the rare instance where they've pecked out some barely passable "story" that isn’t way out in leftfield, the magazine’s position was a forgone conclusion months prior to its being published. Moreover, the whole magazine is written as though the target audience is at the top of the bell curve….in a high school somewhere.

Posted by Anal_yst, Jun 17, 2008 1:24PM

@ Headless

Business week is written for the "stuck in the Dr's waiting room" set. You think its easy explaining complex business sh!t to the people who've only picked up the mag because they ran out of US Weekly back-issues?

Posted by guest, Jun 18, 2008 6:05AM

"a hellhole riven by internal backstabbing, sniping, and intra-office gossip wars"

... Sounds suspiciously like the UBS technology department.