Season 2 Finale & Costco: Kings of Kirkland
Corporate Gossip
Becca Platsky
4.9 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
SEASON 2 FINALE!!
Thanks for your support this season, we'll be back with Season 3 later this summer!!
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Becca and Adam flew close to the sun last week and decided to end the season on a high note. We answer some listener questions and crown our 2023 Corporate Cutie before getting into some feel-good Corporate Gossip.
The Costco story (18:45) is straight from a Jack Welch nightmare. Low CEO pay, a modest corporate headquarters, and no private jets?!!! Despite skimping on executive perks, Costco became a retail giant, peaking at #11 on the Fortune 500 list. And they did it without layoffs, downsizing, or offshoring… suck it McKinsey!! This episode has no strip clubs, accounting fraud, or subterfuge… BUT it does have threats of MURDER!!
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Hosts: Becca Platsky (Becca@nitetoast.com) Adam Platsky (Adam@nitetoast.com)
Produced by: Michael Albanese @bigmanmike
Timestamps:
01:00 - Intro (Confirmation that John Flannery is, in fact, still alive and thriving!! and our close encounter with Andy Cohen and why we're wrapping season 2
06:00 - Listener Questions
15:00 - Corporate cutie awards 2023
18:45 - Costco: Kings of Kirkland
Links:
Costco CEO Craig Jelinek Leads the Cheapest, Happiest Company in the World
Link to chart with revenue / salary
Amazon and Walmart have raked in billions in additional profits during the pandemic, and shared almost none of it with their workers (Brookings institute expose)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the season two finale of the corporate gossip podcast. Before I get started, let me do my |
| 0:05.8 | favorite thing. Shout out all the folks who brought us coffees this week. We have Jeremy P. |
| 0:12.1 | Anne R. and Sheila in T.C. And friend of the pod, Meredith Her. Thank you all. You're all awesome're all awesome so guys this episode is going to be a |
| 0:24.1 | little bit different we we are going to finally do the kings of kirkland costco and it's going to be an |
| 0:31.8 | uplifting good funny episode but before we do that adam and I reflect on season two. We crown our |
| 0:38.8 | 2023 corporate cuties and we answer some listener questions. If you want to skip ahead to Costco, |
| 0:44.9 | check the show notes, but I think it's around 20 minutes where we get started on that. |
| 0:48.9 | I hope you guys enjoy the episode and we'll see you next season. Speed. That means go. Welcome back to another episode |
| 0:57.9 | of the corporate gossip podcast. I'm your host, Becca Platsky. I'm here with my brother, |
| 1:02.2 | Adam Platsky. Hey-oh. And this is our final episode of season two of the corporate gossip |
| 1:09.0 | podcast. This is going to be a little bit of a hodgepodge. |
| 1:11.9 | We're going to reflect on the season. |
| 1:13.9 | We're going to answer some listener questions. |
| 1:15.7 | We're going to crown our corporate cutie, corporate cupcake, corporate comrade. |
| 1:22.6 | I'm not sure what we're going to call it, the corporate hero of the season. |
| 1:26.4 | And then we're going to wrap up this |
| 1:28.5 | episode by talking about Costco. Don't worry. Okay, we wanted to end this season on a lighter note. |
| 1:34.8 | So we're not going to be talking shit about Costco. Costco is one of those companies that's not |
| 1:39.1 | terrible. I think, you know, sometimes being in this space talking about this kind of stuff, |
| 1:46.2 | I think it can get you down and make you feel like, oh my God, how could I possibly consume |
| 1:50.6 | in this world when every single company is terrible? But I think Costco is a great example of a |
| 1:55.8 | company that, conscious consuming. Conscious, you can conscious consume. And there are some funny stories that goes along with that. |
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