Cleveland Browns lay off 15

I know of a media relations department that doles out candyass awards -- I would guess there is some incentive, at least inherent -- for effort. That translates to whoever leaves the building last, and it has created a fairly toxic work atmosphere.

 

I know guys who stay after the game and update their stats, at the very least, the same night.
Then they come in at 8:30 a.m., as has been said.
It's not good timing, but so many of them are at the beck and call of the glamour coaches they work underneath.

And, again, I reworked my argument a few posts up and gave props to SIDs at smaller schools.
Now, the big ones are something totally different. They have tons of student workers who each are assigned a sport.
Track and field, women's tennis, rifle, etc.
The kids do great jobs of getting the stats out.
And not many papers usually use the stuff.

But yes, I've given props to smaller schools and the SID staffs there.

And, again, this thread is about lots of different depts.
Not just media relations.

My initial idea regarding losing one's job, and I won't mention it again in this post, remains true.

 

I can think of another, related, business that works the same way.

 

Oh, sure. But it used to be that you had a pretty good chance of climbing the organizational ladder swiftly, a few rungs at a time, even starting out in media/public relations (Harry Gamble and Billick are two examples off the top of my head). Nobody is promised anything, no false carrot dangled, unlike newspapers over the last 15 years. Personally, I cannot count how many times in newspapers that I and the people I worked with were lied to -- it must have been close to running in the hundreds. Not something that for whatever reason didn't work out or something that fell through, but black lies.

 

not sure who you're thinking of, but Harry never worked in PR

graduated rider 1952
coached NJ high school football 1954-61 (clayton, audubon)
assistant at Penn 1962-66
head coach lafayette 1967-70
head coach penn 1971-80
volunteer assistant coach eagles 1981
tight ends, special teams eagles 1982
personnel dept. assistant 1983
director of football operations 1984
general manager 1985
team president 1986-94
retired, tending garden in haddonfield 1994

good guy

but never in PR

 

My error. I'd thought he did some of it at Penn.