--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Kaplan sold Books Are Fun to Reader's Digest in 1999 for $380 > > million -- now RD is selling BAF for $17.5 million... > > Couldn't happen to a nicer company. :-) > > I did a two-month project for Reader's Digest once, > working in their headquarters, and when it was over > it was like being released from prison. > > I've never encountered a more paranoid, fascist > organization in the business world. The halls were > literally patrolled by guards armed with automatic > weapons. Employees' private lives were monitored, > and if they did something that RD considered > "inappropriate," they were fired. Horrible place, > horrible company. >
******** Still better than my uncle's employer, "Mauschwitz" (Disney).