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Hijinks did indeed ensue.
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3. Where we will then go to experience second-hand the twee epiphanies of the overprivileged?
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2- I am really surprised to hear such negativity about Lipack. I have been a stringer for NYDN for a few years and he has always been kind and encouraging towards me, and pushed me to go father than I thought I could. Very much a mentor in an industry full of criticizers and complainers. As far as I can see, he spoke lovingly about his staff and had a lot of pride in his department. I'll miss working with him and talking with him.
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#tips
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That's as offensive a statement as his continued existence.
I took the heat, I thrived on the heat, I am better for the heat. His version of it was not a raised temperature, it was a pure and simple, abject depravity stoked by his desire to lord over his perceived underlings.
You may feel that his abuse made you better, but there are far greater methods to push people in the right direction.
Never forget, his professional sadism was just that. If you somehow benefited from that, good for you. It's not the way to run a department and he's hurt more people than he's helped.
Not a matter of tough-love. He did it all for his own benefit, and that's what makes him reprehensible.
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Ask any non-staff photojournalist that has had the poor fortune to have their career-path wind through Lipack's turf (there are dozens) about their experience and you will hopefully come to understand that old Mikey has just received only a fraction of the shit karma coming back on him on return.
This is a man who - from the much I've heard from friends who work/ed for him - consistently behaves in an abusive, belittling and cruel manner.
He deserves no pity at this point.
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There was a revolving door of non-staff shooters, dozens to the Nth degree, mostly because they couldn't stand the abuse he inflicted. Every one of them was the latest dog for him to kick to get his dick hard. He even did it to some staffers too. Especially the ones he didn't hire.
I was unfortunate enough to witness this as I worked under him in a different capacity. More than a handful of people knew the Lipack shtick of how, when he knew he was wrong, he'd yell at you more to make up for his bruised ego.
I personally witnessed him praise a shooter one minute, and when an editor asked a fairly innocuous question about why a certain shot wasn't taken, he called said shooter and told him he should sell his gear and get a different job.
If I listed every vile thing I witnessed him do, it would make "War and Peace" look like a pamphlet. I don't feel comfortable, even despite the venting, telling some of the things he did.
I had been on the receiving end of his attempt to belittle me more than once. And when he would drag me into his office, go on a tirade, and stick his stubby, fat little finger in my face, I never once flinched. That would infuriate him more, as I didn't grovel the way he wanted folks to, and he'd go ballistic. It was the only way to battle him because it's not like he could fire me for NOT reacting, but it was a drain having to deal with such puerile, schoolyard-bully behavior on top of actually having a job to do.
Believe me, if you'd never had the displeasure of reporting to him, the stories pale in comparison to the real thing.
I was told once by someone, before having to actually work under him, that he was the most evil boss that person had ever worked for. I thought that was hyperbole until I discovered it was a mild description.
12/13/09
I would feel bad about this happening to anyone else but not him. I regard this as long-overdue karmic justice.
And before anyone gets all judgmental about me and my callousness, I spit this venom from the last portion of black in my heart for a reason.
He was, and will be in whatever menial position he's transferred to, a spineless, morally vacant, petty tyrant.
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Simple, to the point and apparently hits home.
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My husband was told he was laid off from a certain broadcast network while we were on vacation. Over the phone. ON MY BIRTHDAY.
Another employee in the same round of cutting was also told over the phone. While in the car en route to bury her grandmother.
Now, hospital ups it a bit. I'll give him that.
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i won't be shocked if a law suit turns up shortly.
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