I have decided to put the mini-series
on the placement firm that I had given the abbreviation GLG, into a bin labeled
“Some assembly required.” What this
means is that I will not post a series on it specifically, for the foreseeable
future.
The story is at least as
interesting as many of the other media stories reflecting “dark stuff in the
back room” that I have put on my blogs, and it is relevant to one or more of
the “JCP” and “RVT” projects mentioned at the start of “Dollars & sense, …Part 1.” But pending those projects, the
only way I would be apt to present the GLG story is to plop down, almost unreconstructed,
some of the documentation that pertained to the complaint I started pursuing with
the state Department of Labor in spring 2007, concerning GLG’s being weeks,
then months, behind in having its paychecks able to be cashed. (They bounced
otherwise. And for me, thousands of dollars in pay was outstanding. Other employees of GLG got
the same treatment, and at least one former employee of GLG started suing it,
leading one principal to pay me through cashier’s checks…while he was shielding
from the lawsuit what money he could get to pay employees.)
This would mean indications of
the many little items of evidence (for instance, a three-page list I have a copy
of, a sort of cover sheet listing documents that I sent to the state, is quite illustrative
of the nature of the problem, as well as of how unprecedented it was for me, but
it may suggest what a tedious process the complaint was, along with all else).
This all could be said to comprise—making
the larger story look like—the kind of “pile of leaves” that would be interesting
to investigators but not to the more casually interested members of my
audience. In 2007, it was interesting stuff to deal with in the thick of
resolving a thorny matter of a workplace collapse, but a retrospective traipse
through it doesn’t make for romantic reading, so to speak.
Some might also say, it’s old
news, so why bother? But it figures in a years-long recent history of changes
in the climate and practices of certain “arcane” sectors of the media world in
New Jersey that it would be foolish to ignore.
And perhaps the former
principals of GLG, if they were aware of this planned mini-series, would feel
it was just as well I didn’t post a fuller version of the story on my blog.
