Scott Adams has a whole e-mail exchange in one of his books about suspending free beverages.
Unlike your company, they were not honest about why and were kind of dicking around with employees. At a time when the money was flowing like water.
We keep hiring people. Our owner has made it clear to me that the internet portion of our business is paramount, so he wants me to cut back on my nonternet efforts, ie: what I was hired to do.
He has a few misconceptions about the industry. I can say this because I've spent years covering the industry for a trade paper. Whether that will cause distress, I don't know. Right now he's concentrating on web traffic of 1k to the detrement of an audience of 60k.
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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet
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