After the audio from the Tate Publishing meeting was leaked in 2012, it became my personal mission to call out the company for its shady business model, nepotism-based management style and the way they treated employees.
This was for a couple of reasons:
1. My first "real job" during and out of college was a communications gig for a nutritional supplement company that sold an ephedra-based herbal energizers pill called AM-300. It was also a shady company that operated on a nepotism-based management style. I learned a lot from my experience there, and feel for workers who have to endure the same thing.
2. It always made great material.
Well, I guess you can now say my mission is complete and it's finally time to move on to something else. According to the Mustang Times, Tate has closed it's doors for the last time.