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true that Politico got badly schlonged by its former lethargic labor reporter, Mike Elk? A report has ...

he was "lethargic." However, before we get to that, Wemple describes a Politico settlement ... criticism that he was “lethargic” and didn’t rack up many bylines, Elk responded, “I wrote 12 stories they ... (in addition to his salary) for doing nothing while there. Of course, even someone as lethargic as ...

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. No, just make that the worst of times. That is how the vivid imagination of former lethargic Politico labor reporter, Mike Elk, paints his Dickensian visions of working conditions at that organization. Never mind that Elk wrote a grand total of ...

It isn't completely official yet but when an employee has been removed from a company's list of staff bios, is publicly badmouthing his bosses, and is threatening to sue his employer, it is almost a sure sign that he has in fact been fired. Such is the case with lethargic labor reporter Mike ...

To the barricades! Or rather, to the virtual barricades since that requires much less effort. And in the case of lethargic Politico labor reporter the less real effort the better since according to his "work" schedule, Elk has produced only five Politico stories in fourteen weeks with ...

than their hilariously infamous lethargic labor reporter, Mike Elk, according to his own declaration, ... personal experiences of one of their own writers. The bad news is that the writer is so lethargic that he ...

subscriptions explain why their lounge chair lethargic labor reporter, Mike Elk, is already approaching his ...

Oh, the strain, the horrible strain! Politico reporter Mike Elk is the notoriously lethargic "labor" reporter at Politico, best known for his quote for the ages when the 28 year old of distinctly non-Stakhanovite inclinations complained that “I can’t work the kind of hours I did when I was 24.” To get an idea ...

Politico labor reporter Mike Elk continues to set new records in the annals of extreme lethargy. Not only has he written a pathetic total of only five stories since he came on board at Politico in the middle of October, he can't even be bothered to w ...

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and what he deemed the "lethargic pace" of judicial ...