In a passage from Bloomberg on Bloomberg that demonstrates either a can-do spirit or a sense that rules are for the little people, depending upon your point of view, Bloomberg hints that early customers might want to double-check their terminal wires.
Bloomberg's company was initially called Innovative Market Systems, and the Bloomberg Terminal was called the "Market Master," which Bloomberg writes, "Could have been confused with a kitchen appliance." As the company grew more well known, it faced a potential trademark conflict over the name "Market Master," and a fateful choice was made.
Bloomberg on Bloomberg expresses skepticism that workers can be trusted to work from home: "Tougher, more competitive times are not suited for reduced interaction with fellow workers or more lax supervision. Those arguing that e-mail, chat, and videoconferencing are replacements for gathering around the watercooler must be academics."
Garrison described Bloomberg's asking a newly hired saleswoman, "If asked you to lay down and strip naked and fu** you, would you do that, too?" According to her suit, Bloomberg asked variations of that question to several women at the company.
"Tactical philanthropy gives Bloomberg the unique capacity to influence the decision-making of the institutions that are traditional power brokers and opinion makers in Democratic politics," the Brooking's Institution's Vanessa Williams has written.
At Columbia University, for example, Bloomberg dismissed New York City's public-school students: "They don't know how to present themselves. They have personal-hygiene problems. These are the things that drive employers crazy."
"The Bloomberg who came into office as the anti-politician, promising to transform city government, has been transformed himself. Some of us liked him precisely because his wealth insulated him from the kind of horse-trading that diminished his predecessors. But seven years later, Bloomberg has not only proved himself to be a master politician, as hungry for power as anyone we've ever seen, but he's also ended up putting nearly everyone who deals with the city deep into his political debt."
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/twenty-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-michael-bloomberg/
Bloomberg's company was initially called Innovative Market Systems, and the Bloomberg Terminal was called the "Market Master," which Bloomberg writes, "Could have been confused with a kitchen appliance." As the company grew more well known, it faced a potential trademark conflict over the name "Market Master," and a fateful choice was made.
Bloomberg on Bloomberg expresses skepticism that workers can be trusted to work from home: "Tougher, more competitive times are not suited for reduced interaction with fellow workers or more lax supervision. Those arguing that e-mail, chat, and videoconferencing are replacements for gathering around the watercooler must be academics."
Garrison described Bloomberg's asking a newly hired saleswoman, "If asked you to lay down and strip naked and fu** you, would you do that, too?" According to her suit, Bloomberg asked variations of that question to several women at the company.
"Tactical philanthropy gives Bloomberg the unique capacity to influence the decision-making of the institutions that are traditional power brokers and opinion makers in Democratic politics," the Brooking's Institution's Vanessa Williams has written.
At Columbia University, for example, Bloomberg dismissed New York City's public-school students: "They don't know how to present themselves. They have personal-hygiene problems. These are the things that drive employers crazy."
"The Bloomberg who came into office as the anti-politician, promising to transform city government, has been transformed himself. Some of us liked him precisely because his wealth insulated him from the kind of horse-trading that diminished his predecessors. But seven years later, Bloomberg has not only proved himself to be a master politician, as hungry for power as anyone we've ever seen, but he's also ended up putting nearly everyone who deals with the city deep into his political debt."
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/twenty-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-michael-bloomberg/
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