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OT: You Can't Make This Stuff Up
The publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is accused of going on a drunken verbal rampage in its newsroom Saturday night in which witnesses say he threatened to “burn the place down” and “close the whole paper.”

John Robinson Block, the vice chairman of Post-Gazette owner Block Communications Inc., is facing a federal labor complaint over the incident.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pittsburg...c93d3c30ad
02-14-2019 06:44 PM
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I don't know any employer that would react well to a disparaging sign up about them. I don't know the guy, don't much care for some actions of his paper, wielding it as a weapon and they are hardly investicative but people should be grateful they have a job or go elsewhere or keep quiet and let their representatives do the talking, not posters on a wall, at work. I see this very much like the Kapernick thing: not on work time.

Newspapers are not exactly golden investments and the Blocks are rich enough they could have divested. Keeping it going is keeping those complainers in jobs.

Eh, cat fight. Nothing more.
02-14-2019 07:37 PM
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It sounds like his daughter was traumatized. Dude needs to get into AA, now.
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Somehow I must’ve missed the Blade’s coverage of this incident...
02-15-2019 06:44 AM
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(02-14-2019 07:37 PM)eastisbest Wrote:  I don't know any employer that would react well to a disparaging sign up about them. I don't know the guy, don't much care for some actions of his paper, wielding it as a weapon and they are hardly investicative but people should be grateful they have a job or go elsewhere or keep quiet and let their representatives do the talking, not posters on a wall, at work. I see this very much like the Kapernick thing: not on work time.

Newspapers are not exactly golden investments and the Blocks are rich enough they could have divested. Keeping it going is keeping those complainers in jobs.

Eh, cat fight. Nothing more.

So you're suggesting that Block's reaction was normal? The thing that hit me most strongly in the story is his parenting. That's really unfortunate.

I don't see the analogy to Kaepernick. Kaepernick was protesting something unrelated to his work. The Gazette employees were protesting what they believe is unfair treatment by their employer.
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(02-15-2019 07:03 AM)Dwight Wrote:  
(02-14-2019 07:37 PM)eastisbest Wrote:  I don't know any employer that would react well to a disparaging sign up about them. I don't know the guy, don't much care for some actions of his paper, wielding it as a weapon and they are hardly investicative but people should be grateful they have a job or go elsewhere or keep quiet and let their representatives do the talking, not posters on a wall, at work. I see this very much like the Kapernick thing: not on work time.

Newspapers are not exactly golden investments and the Blocks are rich enough they could have divested. Keeping it going is keeping those complainers in jobs.

Eh, cat fight. Nothing more.

So you're suggesting that Block's reaction was normal? The thing that hit me most strongly in the story is his parenting. That's really unfortunate.

I suggested nothing. I wrote clearly what I wrote.
(02-15-2019 07:03 AM)Dwight Wrote:  I don't see the analogy to Kaepernick. Kaepernick was protesting something unrelated to his work. The Gazette employees were protesting what they believe is unfair treatment by their employer.
If that difference is all necessary for boorish behavior to have you come to a different conclusion, it's your opinion. Not for anyone to say is wrong.
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