Big Doings in Dallas

Will they take suggestions?

 

According to the memo, the Project Team will be made up of department heads. They will be sequestered for two weeks with instructions that they're not to be interrupted. So, don't call us, we'll call you.

 

When I think of these guys behind closed doors for two weeks, I can't help but picture the movie "Threads," where the brainiacs are in their underground shelter chain-smoking and breathing in radioactive dust from the air vent.

When the rabble finally get through the rubble, the brainiacs are dead.

 

Sequestered where, a luxury resort?

 

If they can still put out a decent paper with these folks behind closed doors, I know where I would start cutting...

 

"We see you've been missing a lot of work recently"

"I wouldn't exactly say I've been missing it, Bob"

 

Probably the Four Seasons.

 

How bad is it getting at the DMN? The staff is taking the publisher to task for his syntax -- and perceived lack of compassion -- in the email notifying them of the impending buyouts/layoffs. Here is the post from a DMN staffer on an alt-news Dallas blog:

"As you know, the DMN newsroom is suffering some heartburn because of the buyouts the company is going to offer and the potential for layoffs if certain targets aren't hit. Reporters have been given very little info on specifics: How much are the buyouts? Who is eligible? When will they be announced? All are unanswered questions.

So last Friday, we get an e-mail from {publisher Jim) Moroney with the unremarkable subject line "FYI."

The body of the e-mail read: "We are planning on making the voluntary severance offer for the newsroom during the week of August 7. If that timing changes, we will send out another notice."

So we finally get word on when we will hear about our fate, and it comes in an e-mail with "FYI" as the header???? As in "Oh, by the way ..."

I think this shows that the brass around here is woefully out of touch with the worker gnomes, who are rightfully angst-ridden over the buyouts. Notifying all of us on our impending doom with a mere "FYI" as he skips off to the Country Club just irritates the hell out of me. He should, at the very least, fake some concern for those who made possible his $98,000 cash bonus last year."

 

You have to wonder how much pressure they're putting on the writers to get that football tab done?

 

If it was me, I think I'm keeping those previews in my laptop until Aug. 7 and I find out whether or not I have a job. ;D

 

They should also be stockpiling viruses and worms set for a timed release when necessary.

 

Which the DMN honchos are calling the Three Seasons out of habit.