Met Life Building

This is about the only vantage point from which the Met Life building looks decent ( once the Pan Am building which used to have helicopters land on the roof...finally banned as too noisy)--

Met Life itself is an interesting story. It used to be known as "Mother Met" because of its great benefits, job security and wonderful employee cafeteria ( this in its original building down on 23rd Street), where the food was practically free.

In the 1980's, a "greed is good" management took over, moved all back office workers and then finally everyone except the top execs out to the wilds of New Jersey. Cafeteria closed of course.

Oh, they cut out the benefits, too to a large extent.

Knew one disgruntled employee of MetLife who told me the company spent an incredible amount of money on its Charles Schulz "Snoopy" character ads and also had visitor's badges with Snoopy on them printed up ( at great cost) -- to project the image of a warm, snuggly company when they had become anything but that.

I don't know if MetLife even has token offices in this building shown anymore...