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Au Revoir

By Jay Newton-Small | @JNSmall | November 17, 2009 | +

In French when one bids a more permanent goodbye to a friend you say adieu – farewell. But if you shall see them again, even if it might be a while, you tell them au revoir or bon voyage – until we meet again and good travels. I want to add my thanks and best wishes to TIME deputy managing editor Josh Tyrangiel. Like Amy, Josh hired me and I owe to him my new found appreciation of adjectives and adverbs, similes and metaphors.

So it is with no small sense of irony that I bid Josh bon voyage to the company from which he took me: Bloomberg. Well, not exactly Bloomberg, but BusinessWeek, the newest division of the borg – er, company. (Did I mention resistance is futile?) In all seriousness, if anyone can convince Matt Winkler the importance of color, style and the word but (which happens to be banned from Bloomberg wire copy) – it’s Josh.

We shall not wish Josh adieu though he leaves us next week. Let us say au revoir and hope to see him again when he finishes his terminal training (don’t worry, Josh, it’s only three weeks and yes, you really do have to hit enter, 1, enter to send all e-mails). It’s a sad day for all of us at TIME Inc. to be losing a valued colleague and friend but as an eager future employee of Josh’s put it in an e-mail to me today: your loss, our gain. They have no idea how big a gain it is. We’ll miss you.

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  • deconstructiva

    Thanks, Jay. It looks like Josh has left a great legacy here …but don’t wreck it with a mass migration. With more corporate layoffs (here? Forbes for sure), let’s keep the swamp intact. From local teevee stations to some of my past jobs (I don’t work in media), I’ve seen newly hired key people bring other talent and clients with them. With Bloomberg’s Bizweek, poaching Margaret Brennan from CNBC, etc., it’s obvious they’re NOW shooting for the top. (Bloomborg?) Who is the evil genius turning them around? To you, KT, and Amy, do stick around here, please. But on a lighter note, do YOU have a recipe for us? Amy posted her spiced cupcakes w/ orange frosting and KT posted her lemon pound cake earlier. I posted a couple of drink recipes at Amy’s cupcake post (c.#3) if needed, or just do shots.

  • http://www.twitter.com/jnsmall Jay Newton-Small

    deconstructiva,
    Ha — no worries there. I can never go back to Bloomberg. When you leave, it’s considered a betrayal. You are forever more blacklisted – a policy instituted by Mike Bloomberg himself (he made an exception for public service so he could run for mayor and one day return to the company).
    As for recipes — alas, I don’t really bake. I do make a mean leg of lamb, though, if you want that recipe.
    JNS

  • deconstructiva

    I didn’t know about the Borg blacklist, thanks for mentioning that. Well, in rough times with high staff turnover, that could be an issue for drawing talent, but that’s their problem. As for food, if you want to post your lamb recipe here or in a future post, go for it. It’s a tasty diversion from Sarah’s memoirs during the HCR lull. If the R’s filibuster the final bills, will they have to read family recipes at 3am to keep talking?
    .
    I’m amazed how some foods are so easy to fix, such as the Southern classic Frogmore Stew: boil a huge pot of water with Old Bay, then add in order (of cooking time): red potatoes, andouille sausage, corn on the cob, then seafood (crawfish, shrimp, crab, etc. – only need five-ish minutes boiling for seafood), then drain and serve at once. Thanks, Jay, and have a good evening.

  • yutsano

    As for recipes — alas, I don’t really bake.

    There is no shame in this Jay. I myself am a terrible baker, mostly because I have no patience for the measuring and making sure everything is EXACTLY right (Alton Brown’s baking recipes especially annoy me, mostly because the whole weighing your flour and sugar seems unnecessarily fussy) so don’t be afraid to call yourself a cook. After all, we don’t live by bread or sweets alone.

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