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He's done-r it! Kebab fan Luke 'the Nuke' Littler, 16, demolishes former world champ Rob Cross to become the youngest-ever World Darts Championship finalist - securing at least a £200,000 payday and earning a hug from his delighted beautician girlfriend.

Doesn’t it make sense to offer workers the same? That way, the workers who want their issues get them we who don’t, won’t and the company saves possibly hundreds of issues from the recycling bin and instead gets to sell them for $5.99 each to a willingly paying public. Instead, how about allowing employees to opt out of receiving a copy beforehand? Ordinary subscribers have been given that option since 2005 by calling 1-86.

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SWIMSUIT MODELS 2008 FREE

Doing away with the free issue isn’t it far be it for me to suggest eradicating a perk that no doubt more than a few of my fellow workers treasure. On behalf of these colleagues, I humbly offer a suggestion. But doesn’t that completely work against our business goal of selling as many as possible? Many said they just tossed their issues in the bin, which, I might add, is what many readers have told me to do. They variously pointed out the weirdness of singling out one issue, of copies placed face down, of receiving the issues at all. Since my post, I’ve gotten a slew of notes from employees who say they too have long objected to this singular practice (though many add I’m a knucklehead for saying so in public). But it’s a value determined without explanation or much sense, considering the issue’s unique content and our diverse employee population.Ĥ. The fact of the distribution stamps an implied value on SISI not placed on our other top-selling issues. None of these are distributed to every employee in the building. My own magazine puts out some highly sought-after issues, if I may say so: TIME 100, say, or Person of the Year. Each have best-selling, high-value issues: the Fortune 500 People, following the death of a big star InStyle post-Oscar. My beef is with the fact and manner of the distribution to employees. But as commenter CoworkerInProgress first pointed out, we employees are sort of left to wonder what management thinks when each copy distributed to each desk is placed, deliberately and carefully, face down.ģ. Obscenity is notoriously difficult to define as Justice Potter Stewart said in 1964, he knows it when he sees it. Though I called it porn in my post, if I’m being honest with you (as Simon Cowell would say), I was being flippant. It’s sort of like Valentine’s Day: an excuse to scarf candy once a year.Ģ. Like my brother George would say, it is what it is: an issue packed with barely dressed ladies for a male audience normally interested in sports. I do think it disingenuous to call it a fashion catalog no woman I know takes their swimwear guidance from SI. I don’t consider it journalism on the level of, say, SI’s award-winning work exposing the Balco investigation, but I know many of my talented colleagues work their butts off preparing the issue every year. It’s a boffo earner for my company, and believe me, we can use all the yen we can scratch up right now.

My beef is not with the existence of SISI.

At the risk of stirring up more muck-and earning me a visit to the principal’s office-I feel called to follow up.ġ. That whoosh you just heard is me taking a deep breath. Since then, I’ve been hit with a mini-tsunami of responses from readers and colleagues-not to mention other bloggers ( Gawker thinks I’m a bonehead unworthy of my paycheck Michael David Smith of Sports.AOL’s Fanhouse sympathizes Folio’s Dylan Stableford praises for letting a twerp like me vent). I blogged that day expressing my mild annoyance at this unwanted gift. Follow few days ago, I walked into my office in the Time-Life Building and nearly slipped on a thick magazine tucked under my door: Sports Illustrated’s annual Swimsuit Issue.

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