Hey EFers, Now You Want to Talk About It?
As many Milton Academy students and alumni have pointed out to us, journalism isn’t easy. It requires hounding people who may not want to talk, endless Lexis searches, and stalking people on social networking sites. We do this to entertain and inform you, our valuable readers. But would it have killed you to help us out a little bit?
For those web-savvy readers who feel their pulse race when a new element crops up on a website, you may have noticed the new feature on our homepage that shows our most viewed and most commented stories from Boston magazine. “Office Party Fouls,” a story in our December issue (on newsstands now, folks!) documents the wild and crazy holiday office parties at EF, a student travel company in Cambridge.
We worked like crazy to line up sources for that story. We tried to find employees on Facebook and MySpace. We posted ads on Craigslist. We asked former employees to give us the goods. Clearly, we found some former and current employees with some amazing, vomit-soaked stories.
But even more dirt has come out in the comments posted on our website. Here’s some of our favorites.
I once saw a guy take of his belt at the company bar (yes there is a bar on the 1st floor) and start spanking girls with it.
. . . I worked at EF while in my 20s, and I had a fantastic time. I went to wild company parties, I had sex with a variety of beautiful, interesting women. On top of all the drinking, I even did some serious drugs with a couple vice-presidents there!. . .
I worked at EF for 2 months, but had to quit due to all the effin’ Jager bombs. I was drenched in SOCO & Lime cologne the whole time I worked there.
I had the misfortune of blowing out my MCL at an EF Holiday Party.
Readers, please don’t keep these gossipy stories to yourself. Feel free to share with the class. Even if they don’t have a bold face name attached to them, we can respect a group that parties so hard someone can blow out his or her MCL.
November 28th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Amy Derjue, how do you still have a job after that biased crap filled “”"article”"” you wrote?
November 28th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
In Oct. 2006 in the Boston Business Journal, this article ran: click here Obviously, any privately-held company steeped in secrecy will have it’s own mores and values. It’s the financial concerns of this organization that really ought to be examined. Anyone else smell money laundering?
November 29th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Amy,
I am delighted at your article, and would have loved to have helped you with it. But, I am not plugged into the on-line social networking sites. I can’t even stand my cell phone.
I worked there for six years, and I had a better social time there than I did at my college fraternity parties. Yes, I worked there under my own free will and took the paycheck they gave me. But I left when it became apparent that I needed to plan for more than cirrhosis of the liver and a potential case of genital warts in my old age.
One summer, I once worked nearly two months straight from nine in the morning until one in the morning the next day on a salary of $28K a year. When I voiced concern over these work hours and the gross inefficiencies at play, I was told that this is the way it was and I could always quit, but I was given ample amounts of alcohol as soon as the bell hit six pm to ease the pain of the long hours.
E-mail me and we can talk further.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Illidian Stormrage! By Odin’s Beard, I shall defend the honor of this fair sweet maiden, Amy of Derjue. You have sullied her name and now you shall reap the consequences of your slime-ridden ways! Prepare to drink from the Cup of Sorrows, for I shall ride the crest of the storm to your door and wreak mighty vengeance upon you! Tonight, you will take your last breath!
Ha! I’m totally kidding with you, dude. Your name is cool. Stormrage! Maybe later we can meet up on World of Warcraft and do some gold mining together?