So everyone at Food and Wine was just called in for a "great news!" meeting; they were told that the mag's publisher is becoming the Travel and Leisure publisher, and that the associate publisher is being promoted. But! Despite that framing, the American Express Publishing mag staffers are still in a tizzy. They think the assumption is the two mags can be blended; lots think one might fold.

American Express Publishing—the owner of rich-people mags Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine, plus really rich person travel mag Departures—has a diabolical plan to keep all of its employees safely within its corporate confines. When employees in-house go to the Conde Nast website and click on "careers," they don't end up here. Instead, says a staffer, "Amex Publishing goes all China on your ass and just redirects you to Amex Pub's own career page. It took us all a while of playing with it to realize that it wasn't a glitch on Conde's website, but rather the fact that our own company was fucking with us." You are so owned.