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Progressive Sweatshop
The Bright Young Lad came up for his job interview in the fall of 1987. Charles M. “Chuck” Lacy was stuck in an unsatisfying job when a friend, Jeff Furman, told him that Ben & Jerry’s needed managers. Chuck was twenty-nine, had an MBA from Cornell, and was newly married. He loved the Green Mountains, and he also liked what he saw at Waterbury. “They had courage,” he said. “Also, they were hilarious.”
Ben and Chico called Chuck “the bright young lad” and saved up jobs as they waited for him to arrive. Chuck spent his first day looking for the keys to the Cowmobile, a mobile ice cream stand, because it hadn’t been started in a while. He asked Chico if he could see a copy of the budget, and Chico told him that they didn’t ...
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