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Grubstakers had a good deep-dive on how Lampert drove Sears into the ground with his half-cocked, self-enriching schemes. My favorite part was the mandatory int
by claudeganon 7y ago
Grubstakers had a good deep-dive on how Lampert drove Sears into the ground with his half-cocked, self-enriching schemes. My favorite part was the mandatory internal social network he implemented, where he spent hours arguing with employees through sock-puppet accounts:
https://soundcloud.com/grubstakers/episode-105-eddie-lampert-searsk-mart https://soundcloud.com/grubstakers/episode-105-eddie-lampert...
- dmix 7y agoThe ones who are bad at business and gamed their way to the top are never just bad at business. They always have borderline personality issues and strange quirks. Reminds me of Ramesh Balwani from Theranos.
- skinnymuch 7y agoGrubstakers is great. Haha yes the internal social network is the silliest thing. The employees doing fake convo and knowing Eddy is posting are both amazing anecdotes.
- x0x0 7y agoWhat's amazing to me -- and I run a company -- is finding that many hours to argue with employees.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoBecause you run a company, not an asset stripping operation.
- folkhack 7y agoGod this is outrageous - it's just a portrait of people who should never be in the powerful positions (that they don't deserve) screwing over thousands of people. They withheld wages, canceled insurance, etc. ... It's just disgusting and these folks should be ashamed for doing this. Listen to the podcast - it's outrageous.
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- nkrisc 7y agoIn my last few weeks there (some years ago), we were actually given a weekly quota of posts to make to it. I asked my manager multiple times if they were serious, they were and my understanding was that there was even reporting to see if their direct reports complied. It was bizarre.