And so Earl did what he needed to do. He fired Brownie Wise. After almost eight years working together, he cut her off. He instructed his staff to bury every copy of her book in a pit in back of Tupperware’s headquarters. He had never given her stock in the company, nor did she have a severance agreement. After she sued him, he reluctantly gave her one year’s salary, about $30,000. A few months later, he sold the company for $16 million—the equivalent of $132 million today.
Doh. I was afraid of this. She should’ve owned a big chunk of Tupperware! :(
