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It Helps To Have A Great Boss
The time I got chewed out by one of the best men I ever knew and a Los Angeles icon
I just read Henry Blodget’s lengthy reminiscence of his early working career. Blodget is a career columnist for Business Insider and this was a year-end missive intended to motivate young aspiring Wall Streeters, attorneys, or finance professionals to work hard, lose their egos, etc …
Back in the day (early 90s, I believe), Blodget landed a CNN internship working for Lou Dobbs. Blodget was assigned to rip and read, and I guess analyze other business information to put on the air and he got careless, hasty, and lazy. He disliked getting up at 3:30 a.m. to get to work by 5:00 a.m. and thought he was smarter and better than his coworkers. He wrote down wrong stock market numbers and these were put on the air at CNN, causing harm to the channel’s reputation.
Lou Dobbs eventually called Blodget in and chewed him out. The whole experience inspired Blodget to leave TV business news … I think he went on to Wall Street … now he works for BI.
So, one Monday morning in 1982 I drove to my internship at the Los Angeles Times Book Review, thinking nothing was amiss, and my boss, Art Seidenbaum, called me in to his office.
