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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
They're the worst of the bunch, IMO.
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They were even terrible to work for in the early 1980s. Can you imagine one S&S division firing an employee for insubordination because the employee shared an idea with another S&S division when the employee's own division showed no interest? And then having corporate agree that that is insubordination?
Or when it came to pricing supplements to professional books, having the price set by the number of pages rather than the value of the content? It wouldn't have been so bad if they didn't puff up the number of pages with useless filler or by not removing outdated material.
At least in the late 1980s to early 1990s, S&S was the pits. The president had a private elevator and if an employee accidentally got on it, the employee was fired.
Lots of tales about S&S, none particularly positive.