Write about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently? – A difficult question from the daily writing prompt.
I was on the tail end of my work career when Jeff Bezos purchased The Washington Post. I had worked in the newspaper industry for just about 4 decades at that point. We were leaving the home I had for years on 15th street in DC.
The company was also going through a huge shift in people also, and many of the old timers like me were either leaving on their own accord or by other means. I actually think they thought I would leave also after they decentralized my UNIX Admin group.
I was moved to lead another group at nights again, but it was different work than I had enjoyed in the past. I should have left then but the lure of working at a newspaper I admired at the time and a new challenge was interesting.
The first year wasn’t bad, but that changed quickly and the last 9 years were difficult at best. And boy was I wrong about those things that kept me there. I should have moved to a government gig and got the medical benefits after retirement but I didn’t.
Thankfully all that nonsense is behind me and I’m retired. I did enjoy most of my time at the Post. I saw the other day it was Don Grahams birthday. I started there when his mother Katherine Graham was running it. Those were special days. And I consider both of them Special People.
Opinion – I think Jeff Bezos missed one of the great opportunities in history. He has a platform to stand up to that crap that is going on in our country now, and he chose to buckle under in the name of greed and kiss the orange ones behind.
