Fox News Has the Worst Human Resources Standards in Human History (WOW!!!!)

[DonViejo]

By Ben Mathis-Lilley

Ace New York magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman has a big piece up Friday about the downfall of Fox News' Roger Ailes. Sherman is extremely well-connected at Fox, and the story is packed with details about media/political intrigue, some of which, such as Megyn Kelly suspecting Donald Trump may have had her poisoned, involve this year's election. But it's also a mind-boggling portrayal of unfathomably inappropriate workplace behavior that actually starts before Ailes got to Fox, when he was at CNBC:

By all accounts, Ailes had been a management disaster from the moment he arrived at NBC in 1993. But by 1995, things had reached a breaking point. In October of that year, NBC hired the law firm Proskauer Rose to conduct an internal investigation after then–NBC executive David Zaslav told human resources that Ailes had called him a “little fucking Jew prick” in front of a witness.

Sounds like the kind of guy you'd want to put in charge of an office, right? Rupert Murdoch thought so. This reportedly paid off for him in the form of Ailes installing cameras so he could make jokes about Murdoch's son being gay:

According to executives, (Ailes) instructed Fox’s head of engineering, Warren Vandeveer, to install a CCTV system that allowed Ailes to monitor Fox offices, studios, green rooms, the back entrance, and his homes. When Ailes spotted James Murdoch on the monitor smoking a cigarette outside the office, he remarked to his deputy Bill Shine, “Tell me that mouth hasn’t sucked a cock,” according to an executive who was in the room.

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/09/02/fox_news_is_a_bad_workplace.html?sid=5388f1c6dd52b8e4110003de&wpsrc=newsletter_slatest

[GeorgeGist]

1. And NBC News was on top of it from the start.

NOT.

[uponit7771]

2. Do they allow fist flights ?!?!?!