Regional Friendo: “I thought this Daily Beast hit piece on TheWrap‘s Sharon Waxman might interest you.”
Journalist Friendo: “LOL at Daily Beast trying to knock out a successful competitor. Fuck these crybabies. Go work somewhere else. Sharon is gruff and direct but you have to be to win in this town. She owns her own business so she can tell them to fuck right off.”
HE to Regional Friendo: “She’s neurotic but then so am I. So are many of us.
“The article is a typical ‘sensitive Zoomer & Millennial snowflakes don’t like tough taskmaster boss’ story. It’s nowhere near as incendiary as Tatiana Siegel’s ‘Scott Rudin is an abusive boss’ THR story. Not even in the same league. Hollywood’s business community is teeming with stories fueled by unhappy snowflakes who resent brusque, occasionally snappy bosses. Big deal.”
Regional Friendo to HE: “You seem okay with nasty bosses who verbally abuse their underlings. Well, I’m not a youthful snowflake but I don’t think you get the best work out of people when you abuse them. Not saying you have to pat them on the head and give them a Kumbaya moment, but respect is a two–way street. I’ve had both kinds of bosses, and believe me, I appreciated the ones who treated me like a professional, not some piece of dogshit.”
HE to Regional Friendo: “I prefer mellow to agitated as well. But this is a tough town and snappy bosses are lamentably par for the course, at least in some corners. You basically have to man up, grim up and take it. Life in the big city.
“Remember Budd Schulberg’s What Makes Sammy Run? Imagine if Sammy Glick had hired a team of snowflake employees. What a Daily Beast article that would make! ‘Sammy is a real prick and he’s hurt our feelings…waaahhh!’
“Except they didn’t have sensitive snowflakes back in the ‘40s and ‘50s. Well, they did but nobody voiced any complaints, certainly not to magazine reporters.”
