Eddie says he would also make special pieces of art just for her. Synthia was born Luis Alberto Morales on September 11, At the age of 13, Synthia says, she sold crack in her South Bronx neighborhood, and at 16 she was accused of starting a squatter-house fire that killed six people. She says that one of its members offered to protect her and then secretly started having sex with her. Before she was released, however, she says, the Latin Kings instructed her to report to a certain gang member in the Bronx.
I hated him. She claims that she and a few other jittery gang members then dropped the box off in a Bronx underpass and later set it on fire. The victim turned out to be a year-old runaway named Ebony Nicole Williams. Synthia says she slipped away to the trannie-friendly Skyway Motel in Jersey City for about five days. I would listen, and it would just erase everything from my mind. During the trial, witnesses testified that Synthia and Carlos Franco, another Latin King member, committed the murder.
They also claimed that Synthia had raped the girl, until one person let it slip that she had been wearing a skirt that night. On October 16, , year-old Luis Morales—Synthia—was convicted of murder and manslaughter. She was sentenced to 25 years to life. The Daily News reported she was wearing the signature yellow-and-black Latin King beads around her neck.
Eddie eventually saw the rougher side of his wife. That got me stressed out. So, last October, he sent Synthia a kite saying he wanted to break up. Synthia felt betrayed. He should support me percent. Distraught and isolated are words he uses a lot. She was on a rampage, tearing everything up like she was on a wild mission. The next day, Eddie apologized. I treated her like a queen. I even gave her a chain with a cross with a little rose on it for her birthday. But I could never figure out what was bothering her.
Eddie cried. I was distraught. Meanwhile, a rumor flew through the company at the end of December that Synthia was involved with a new inmate. Even though Synthia insists that she and Ricky are old friends from the neighborhood and have never had sex, Eddie was crazed with jealousy. One day, he noticed that Ricky had signed up to go out to the yard, so he did, too.
He wanted to be Chinese for a minute there. I thought it was cute. Michael Alig, who was transferred from Attica to Elmira prison upstate last month, says he tries to avoid relationships now—partially because he suffers increasing numbness in his penis from a spinal-column condition that he claims went undiagnosed for three years.
A half-dozen WeWork employees repeated the same talking point to me about the narrowness of its staircases and hallways, which are there to foster community by forcing people to physically interact with anyone they walk past.
They say any cost savings from fitting in more people is merely a bonus. At its annual summit, the company keeps track of employee attendance at panels and events by scanning wristbands given to each person; excessive absences are reported to managers.
Employees say turnover at the company has been dizzying. There have been two publicly reported rounds of mass departures, both of which the company said involved culling unproductive workers. But employees say that restructurings, in which entire teams are suddenly disbanded, are a regular occurrence. The focus on growth often seemed to leave little room for other concerns. Two people told me that during an early town hall when WeWork had just over employees, Neumann took questions alongside two other executives, Michael Gross and Noah Brodsky, and someone asked about the lack of diversity among the executive team.
Employees and executives say much of the culture stems from Neumann, whose rule by fiat could be frustrating. Last summer, he announced at the end of a companywide meeting that WeWork employees would no longer be permitted to expense meals that included meat. Several senior members of the company had no idea the announcement was coming or what it even meant. Hundreds of employees joined a Slack channel to debate the policy, while some found various ways around it: A person in the New York tech world said WeWork employees have asked her to expense the meat when they go out for meals.
During an executive off-site meeting in Montauk, he gave a joking toast to the virtues of nepotism. In a job interview, the first question one former executive asked a young female applicant was whether she had a boyfriend he was later fired. Last year, two female employees reported that they were having trouble getting a meeting with Adam Kimmel, the chief creative officer, to whom they reported.
WeWork disputes this. In October, Ruby Anaya, the former head of culture, sued WeWork, alleging she had been groped at both the company summit and Summer Camp by colleagues the lawsuit is pending. The company once projected that by it would have 69 WeLive locations. It still only has two. A third, in Seattle, is slated to open next year. WeWork continues to expand in many directions. In , it invested in a Spanish company that makes wave pools for surfers. A second location is opening later this year in the Brooklyn Navy Yard as part of Dock 72, a large new development that will include , square feet of WeWork space.
WeWork has invested in a food company that sells a turmeric coffee creamer created by Laird Hamilton, the surfing legend. It also has a stake in a company that produces a keto-friendly coffee creamer, run by Jimmy, Jake, and Jordan DeCicco, three brothers who operate out of a WeWork, rent a three-bedroom apartment in WeLive, and workout at Rise by We.
When I met Neumann in his office, a framed poster on the floor showed what looked to be terraformed cities with the year written in large type. The arrangement was criticized as a blatant conflict of interest, and with the company moving toward an IPO, Neumann said he would sell the buildings to ARK at cost. I should buy more WeWork stock if I want to make money. Will WeWork work? The company has existed entirely in an expanding economy, and its business has never been tested by a downturn.
WeWork argues that in a recession, larger companies will downsize into its spaces while laid-off workers will need them to start their solo careers. A third argument goes that WeWork occupies so much space that many landlords will have no choice but to renegotiate its leases.
During the dot-com boom, a company called Regus became a stock-market darling by offering similar but much blander flexible offices. But the bubble burst and Regus went bankrupt. IWG currently has roughly 3, locations and 2. IWG is profitable and now has a hipper, WeWork-ish offering. You could argue that was the rational mode. Back in his office, Neumann remained upbeat. I think we can build an organization that can be a catalyst to effecting long-term measurable change.
And only Powered by We for the things that want it. Think of it as what we call internally a WeOS. An operating system that makes work better, living better. With an IPO on the horizon, he thought the company needed to start doing fewer things better. It was canceling Summer Camp.
Neumann was open to change. He even thought he might get his long hair cut short. We just have some of the last decisions to be made. It's common for a seller to have multiple bids on the home sale. Here is how you can make your offer stand out.
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