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    This Is the Way Condé Nast Ends, Not with a Bang But with Tap Water

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    Image of triplethreat triplethreat
    08/12/09

    In reply to This Is the Way Condé Nast Ends, Not with a Bang But with Tap Water
    That person talking about the refrigerator is either the assistant to an EIC and talking about his or her personal refrigerator, or started at CNP in the mid-nineties.
    From what I have been told from people in the building (I freelance and work at home), the cost-cutting is going to be way more on the operational/manufacturing/business side.
    That said, I think ye olde fat contributing editor contract is going to be phased out at most mags.
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    Image of BrentHelmer BrentHelmer
    08/12/09

    In reply to This Is the Way Condé Nast Ends, Not with a Bang But with Tap Water
    I worked at conde nast for 15 years and Graydon and Anna frequented the cafeteria, mostly when it was brand new and other times when meeting with Si at his usual table (banquette to the right as soon as you enter the dinning room. It was hidden by one of Ghery's blue titanium blue waves). Anna even had lunch with the Prada women one time right in the middle of the fishbowl part of the dinning room.
    I also went thru the last McKinsey visit where the water was taken away, and food at the salesmeetings, but all the people did on the business side did was put it on their T&E and said it was for a client meeting.
    So don't feel sorry for the Nasties they know how to work the system.
    McKinsey should actually look at the T&E, that is where the BIGGEST waste of money is!
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    Image of FarmanMetellus FarmanMetellus
    08/12/09

    In reply to This Is the Way Condé Nast Ends, Not with a Bang But with Tap Water
    I naively agreed to be an "off-the-street" person for a fashion magazine piece. At the shoot, the editors and stylists and assistants ordered lattes and lox omelets and sat around looking at YouTube videos on their MacBooks. If I were a McKinsey consultant, my head would have exploded.
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    Image of Thatcornellguy Thatcornellguy
    08/12/09

    In reply to This Is the Way Condé Nast Ends, Not with a Bang But with Tap Water
    I guess when you're only paying roughly $2000 a month for rent, you pretty much have to eat like the rest of us.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    08/12/09

    In reply to This Is the Way Condé Nast Ends, Not with a Bang But with Tap Water
    And they've started handing out five-hour energy shots! What are they gonna do without their wings?!?!
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/12/09

    In reply to This Is the Way Condé Nast Ends, Not with a Bang But with Tap Water
    And PS: At my last-before-last staffed jobbie at nat'l mag owned by corporate overlords, the CEO got on the horn and issued a decree to all the print properties that henceforth "consumption of alcoholic beverages shall no longer be expensed at business lunches or dinners." At which our EIC, who's not only one of the most brilliant editors on this planet but a majorly funny person, gathered the lot of us in an editorial meeting and noted, "You can no longer expense your boozing at lunch or dinner. Luckily, you can still do it at breakfast."
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    Edited by snugbug at 08/12/09 12:15 AM snugbug was starred snugbug was unstarred
    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    08/12/09

    In reply to This Is the Way Condé Nast Ends, Not with a Bang But with Tap Water
    If Graydon Carter is frequenting the cafeteria, I suspect it's only a matter of time before we'll see La Wintour there -- unless the whole not eating thing gets in the way of that, of course.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/11/09

    In reply to This Is the Way Condé Nast Ends, Not with a Bang But with Tap Water
    OMG, can someone, like, take pity on Valley Girl transplant in ad sales quoted above and like, totally release her into the crystalline waters of the unemployed pool?
    PS: ..Just as good of a time as any to share my favorite LA haiku of all times:
    "I told her and she
    Was like, OMG! And I
    was like, totally!"
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    Image of queensissy queensissy
    08/12/09

    @snugbug: LA-bashing in an article about Conde Nast? Reaching a little here...
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/12/09

    @queensissy: Not bashing. Love. Pure love for my hometown.
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    Image of sarrible sarrible
    08/11/09

    In reply to This Is the Way Condé Nast Ends, Not with a Bang But with Tap Water
    I'm stammering a little at the fact that all this existed for them up till now. Not up till 2007, when things started to go bad, or 2002, when auto advertising really started slowing down, but up till NOW. Jesus. FIJI WATER?!
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    08/11/09

    In reply to This Is the Way Condé Nast Ends, Not with a Bang But with Tap Water
    Nothing says "completely clueless about my ultimate place in the universe" like drinking water imported from the South Pacific in the middle of New York.
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    Image of IamnotStarJones IamnotStarJones
    08/11/09

    In reply to This Is the Way Condé Nast Ends, Not with a Bang But with Tap Water
    I would love a photo of Graydon Carter eating with the common folk!
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    08/11/09

    @IamnotStarJones: Denton should put a bounty out on that.
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    08/12/09

    @IamnotStarJones: Judging from recent photos, Graydon Carter has been eating the common folk.
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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    07/14/09

    In reply to Who Will Rent Marc Ecko's Ridiculous Office Space?
    Oh, look what I did to my Id - Id!
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    07/14/09

    In reply to Who Will Rent Marc Ecko's Ridiculous Office Space?
    I just want it for the king-sized velvet-covered waterbed you know he has.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    07/14/09

    In reply to Who Will Rent Marc Ecko's Ridiculous Office Space?
    curious; is he broke cuz the brand stopped selling or cuz he spent all his money or both?
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    07/14/09

    In reply to Who Will Rent Marc Ecko's Ridiculous Office Space?
    It's a good thing this office has a basketball court. That shouldnt' be too distracting!
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