<![CDATA[Samuel Zell, Tribune CEO - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Samuel Zell, Tribune CEO - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Samuel Zell, Tribune CEO]]> Must be nice to be a multi-billionaire so you can swear like a drunken sailor to your employees and use crass words like "pussy" with no repercussions.

Wonder what would happen if an offended employee went to the head of HR with a formal complaint against Zell.

NorthCoast

]]> <![CDATA[Samuel Zell, Tribune CEO]]> Dear Staff,

Shit, piss, cock, cunt, motherfucker, cocksucker, and tits.

Sincerely,

George Carlin, oops I mean Sam Zell.

surfbeavernsb

]]> <![CDATA[Samuel Zell, Tribune CEO]]> @NightElfMohawk:
What on Earth can you love about WGN?

Greasy Thumb Guzik

]]> <![CDATA[Samuel Zell, Tribune CEO]]> @NightElfMohawk: Somebody as batshit as Zell will likely bring Harry back from the dead and that would be a good thing.

belltolls

]]> <![CDATA[Samuel Zell, Tribune CEO]]> That man is going to destroy completely everything I love about the Cubs and Wrigley Field. And WGN. Bastitch...

NightElfMohawk

]]> <![CDATA[Samuel Zell, Tribune CEO]]> @lawyergay: You are a smarter person than I, I didn't know all that (except UA). We were a private company, spun off by a pubco into an ESOP, and we ran it much better that they would have for a few years so they had to buy us back. I immediately cashed out (HUGE mistake). Praxair if you care to know the pubco.

IndianSlipper

]]> <![CDATA[Samuel Zell, Tribune CEO]]> @IndianSlipper: The ESOP only works if the stock goes up. The ESOP at United Airlines turned out to be utterly worthless. I guess I'm bent about it because I feel like these billionaire types cause a lot of damage and one of the reasons they get away with it is because people don't really understand what's going on. I would hate to see this rapacious, and now supposedly lovable and iconoclastic, billionaire ruin this newspaper and bust the retirements of all his employees just so he could save a few million in taxes. One of the reasons he did this deal is because he needed a place to park the billions he made on the sale of his real estate investment trust last year.

lawyergay

]]> <![CDATA[Samuel Zell, Tribune CEO]]> I think the inclusion of the bottom half of that picture would reveal that he is, in fact, wiping his ass. Possibly while dictating an e-mail, in an open bathroom, to an attractive female assistant.

Chaim Gnadelstein

]]> <![CDATA[Samuel Zell, Tribune CEO]]> @lawyergay: You seem really bent about the ESOP thing. Why? I actually did pretty well when I was a minion for an ESOP and we got bought out. True, the people at the top made shitloads, but they always do no matter what.

IndianSlipper

]]> <![CDATA[Samuel Zell, Tribune CEO]]> Is this why you took the "Dirty Sam Zell Dirtier in LA" post down from earlier? Does anyone think this guy is really interested in running a paper? This purchase was about the tax-free cash he could wring out of the employee stock ownership plan. Deals done this way more than pay for themselves. Just read Louis Uchitelle's piece in the NYT.

lawyergay

]]> <![CDATA[Samuel Zell, Tribune CEO]]> "It's un-American not to like pussy" should be back cover copy for that LOLcats book.

naboo

]]> <![CDATA[Samuel Zell, Tribune CEO]]> As American as Baseball, Chevrolet, and Muff Pie! Yes!

IndianSlipper

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