Seattle Times seeking Kraken/NHL reporter

They had also approved her travel for the next month as well. It's getting curiouser and curiouser.

 

That's just the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.
I know a person who was called in to the office. The SE said to follow him down the hall. They walked past the ASE, who told the reporter to stop by his desk afterward and they could discuss upcoming coverage plans. Well, the reporter was called in to the office to be fired. I don't think this is atypical.

 

Is it normal to let someone who is not up to the job flail about for almost six months, never even dropping a hint to them that they need to get better or stop messing up, then suddenly, one day, seemingly out of the blue, fire them?

 

Again, that's assuming that she really was never told of any issues with her performance. We don't know that to be the case.

 

You’re right. We don’t know. Only one side is telling their side of the story and the other side can’t. It seems strange to me that they would let her go along for months without addressing any problems and suddenly fire her. If it was a one-strike-and-you’re-out kind of thing like plagiarism, showing up to work drunk or something like that, it shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone, either.

 

I look at it this way - if she was doing fine, they hadn't told her a word about her performance needing to improve, what would be the upside of the paper firing the beat writer mid-season?

I do think she's playing it correctly, telling her side of the story while knowing the paper won't be able to say a word from its perspective.

 

I love all the Twitter cartel saying “this is gonna make people think twice about applying to your paper.” LOL. We all know this gig is gonna get like 200 applicants

 

Is she “telling her side of the story,” though? And why, if this was truly unjust, did she not tell her side of the story two weeks ago, when this apparently happened?

 

It sounds like she was still trying to get the job back before yesterday. And once they go public with the posting, why not tell your side?

 

I’m just saying, the last I saw, she said she had more to say. I don’t know if she came out and said it yet. But, to me, if that something to say was that impactful, it would’ve been said by now.

 

Here's the thing - Marisa Ingemi isn't some scrub who no one knew who got fired.

She's well-known in the hockey world. She was formerly with the Boston Herald and had written for the NYT as a freelancer, among other stops. So if there was a true problem with her writing, you'd think it'd have been flushed out before the Seattle Times asked her to move across the country and certainly before firing her weeks before she earned union protection.

 

So you think there most likely were problems that they did address with her and she never fixed the situation or there was a one-strike-and-you’re-out incident and she was well-aware of it?

It just seems to me that if someone is getting fired it should never be a surprise to them.