4291

It seems that Alec Holowka has sadly taken his own life.

4292

Steve Wynn’s Gaming License to be revoked?

4293

“Nobody is going to say anything?” screamed Stuckless in a video their friend filmed that they later posted to Facebook. “Nobody is really going to say anything,” they said, pointing a finger toward Weinstein.

Someone can then be heard telling them to leave. “I’ll get out of here, that’s fine, I am happy to leave, but nobody is going to say anything?” they continued. “I’m going to stand four feet from a fucking rapist, and no one is going to say anything?”

4294

Disgusting - glad he was called out by some of the comedians. Not so glad that others seemed to celebrate him being there. WTF, piece of shit Andrew B. Silas of Florida.

4295

The Yelp and Google reviews for this club are amazing right now.

4296

What kind of messed up bar is this?

Kelly Bachman addressing the “elephant in the room” in her set, calling Weinstein “Freddy Krueger,” only to be booed and told to “shut up” by the crowd.

4297

Tonight Maddow went after NBC for their treatment of Ronan Farrow and his Weinstein investigation.

4298

Weinstein has also been visiting one of his old haunts — he was spotted dining with two women and a man at Cipriani Downtown on Oct. 15, a restaurant owned by his longtime friend Giuseppi Cipriani. It was at Cipriani over the summer that Weinstein attempted to befriend art dealer Alysha Marko, the 33-year-old niece of Christine Pressman, wife of Barneys heir Gene Pressman. “Harvey told me he was an investor in the restaurant,” Marko says, adding that “he was surprisingly charming and upbeat.” After an hour of chit-chat, Weinstein asked Marko if she’d join him for dinner, offering to lend her dresses from Chapman’s Marchesa collection, claiming that he and his ex-wife were still “best friends.” (Weinstein’s rep says he did not offer the Marchesa dresses, and that Marko “must not have heard him properly.”) Marko declined, but says Weinstein called the next day and offered to buy one of the paintings at her gallery — she owns UEAST 75 on Madison Ave — if she’d have dinner with him. She still said no. Later, Weinstein turned up at the gallery and picked out a painting to purchase, promising to send a check. A few days later he changed his mind, saying he was waiting till after his trial to buy art. A spokesman for Weinstein says that he did indeed meet Marko at Cipriani but that he does not have an investment in the restaurant. Says Marko, “He was just being the same old Harvey.”

At the Downtime Bar Wednesday night, Weinstein had found some female companionship, including a 30-something blonde woman in a gold dress who gently urged the upset women in the club who confronted Weinstein to leave. “Based on her calmness, we couldn’t understand whether she was trying to help us or help Harvey,” says Bachman. “When a woman is attached to someone who you know is dangerous and abusive it’s like, blink if you need to be rescued, lady.”

4299

Rachel Maddow goes toe to toe with her NBC bosses and wins.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/28/an-untouchable-rachel-maddow-busts-her-bosses-nbc-news/

4300

Good on her!

4301

I can’t read it. What happened?

4302

Still working for me. WaPo’s paywall maybe?

4303

Didn’t want to start a new thread about this, but McDonalds’s CEO was just fired for a consensual, but against company rules relationship.

Similar to the Hill thing. Against the rules, but a private matter that went public. Except he was ejected. I’ve never seen that before.

4304

Another recent one.

4305

I’ve got a solution for these problems, we just need to work less. Clearly there is not enough time for people to find engaging and rewarding relationships outside of work, so let’s just move to five hour work days, and they can go meet more people whose lives and careers they don’t control to develop bonds with.

4306

I don’t know if you are kidding, but I am in favor of working less.

Not for that particular reason, but I think working less is a good thing for a whole lot of reasons.

4307

Not entirely kidding. There is some data coming out that a shortened but more focused workday can lead to the same productivity as the eight hour work day. The results of shorter but more focused work would be less shorter should lead to less socializing due to the focus but also gives people more free time to engage with people outside work, if they so choose. We spend a lot of time doing stuff with and around work related stuff, including the people.

These problematic relationships seem less likely to happen if there is less time spent at work. It won’t erase it, but imagine if you got almost half your time back and who you might spend your time with when you got it… hanging out with the CEO… maybe not.

4308

Also some data that a shorter work week works as well.

4309

I’d be interested to know how many hours they actually worked in those 4 days, given that the Japanese normally work such extremely long hours.

4310

Japan is not the only region/companies experimenting with shorter days.