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To Einstein Management,

Perhaps you would have seen less “whining and complaining” had you been up front with your employees from the very beginning. In light of recent events, your mantras of “we’re turning the corner” and “we have the money, we just can’t get to it” seem to be less than accurate, if not entirely dishonest. There comes a time when the stock rhetoric you learned in business school (assuming that any of you went to business school and did not learn your managerial skills on a used car lot) needs to be thrown away in favor of actually telling your employees how it is. We all knew the company was in trouble, yet you continued to tell us we were turning that corner, while continuing to pay us late. We asked for updates and did not receive them unless we continued to hound our project managers (whose job descriptions, I doubt, included such obligations). A little honesty goes a long way, and quite frankly, and I believe I can speak for many current and former employees, it was your reluctance to be honest with us that spoiled the morale more than just the simple fact of not being paid on time ever would have. What you demonstrated was a lack of respect for your employees, especially when you laughed it up in the conference room while we wondered when we would get paid. Believe you me, none of us wanted to live paycheck to paycheck; none of us wanted to have to depend on that check arriving on time. Unfortunately, the painful truth is that what you offered was an entry level job with entry level pay – a living wage, true; but definitely not a comfortable one – in one of the most expensive cities in the country.

In a gesture of fairness, though, I am thankful for my tenure at Einstein. I learned a lot and met a great number of intelligent, talented, and generous people with whom I hope I can remain friends for many years to come. Yet Einstein is failing, and the measures that management continues to take only prolong a painful, yet ultimate, demise.