{"id":237,"date":"2009-08-31T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/8\/31\/The-Yung--the-heartless"},"modified":"2021-01-25T07:33:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T15:33:46","slug":"the-yung-the-heartless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/the-yung-the-heartless\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yung & the heartless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our good buddies at Columbia Sussex<\/strong>, who still maintain toeholds in the Las Vegas<\/strong> and Lake Tahoe<\/strong> markets, continue to make friends in time-honored fashion. For instance, with dicta like:<\/p>\n

“Fire the old lady in sales.” (A more detailed version of the story is here.)<\/p>\n

Yup, sounds like the ColSux we know and love. No matter how outstanding Charlotte Thomas<\/strong>‘ performance was, she committed the unspeakable crimes of earning a living wage and, worse still, being old. Now, it’s a well-established fact that ColSux owner and CEO William J. Yung III<\/strong> is no spring chicken himself. I wonder how he’d feel if the bankers who underwrote his multibillion-dollar buying spree in 2006 said, “Fire the old duffer in the executive suite”?<\/p>\n

Companies that fire talented people<\/strong> — like a woman of a certain age who doubled sales — just to save a few grand on the bottom line and have some more-nubile faces around the office deserve to fail. And, with that kind of thinking, they inevitably will.<\/p>\n

(If nothing else, this saga will give one a renewed appreciation of why Faust<\/strong>, given the choice of sundry temptations, chose to be young again. Bill Yung probably had his name on a “cut sheet.”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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