Furloughs beginning at CNHI...

I totally get why people act emotional about layoffs. I do everyday I read this thread. It's depressing as hell. It's a daily downer to come on this board.

Ownership being immoral? That's where our industry is not unique.

I'm just not sure what people expect. I guess my expectation has always been that companies do the maximum to take care of themselves. I went in with my eyes open on that. We've never been anything but peons, lines on a graph in some corporate office somewhere. There are very few companies in any industry where that isn't the case.

 

That was every day of my employment with CNHI from 2001-03. COuldn't get an early start on pages because we had to wait for lifestyles to finish up, because we were running half as many copies of Quark as we should have been. Road trips meant filing from an ancient Apple (not Mac, Apple) laptop with a black and white screen and no spell check.

 

i disagree, bubs. cnhi aquired papers and cut every stinking one of them to the bone, including monstrous staff cuts. maybe cnhi doesn't fire and layoff, but when you cut a newsroom employee list by 50 percent by simply not filling spots that were vacated, you're fucking your employees as bad as mclatchy.

 

Haven't read the rest of the thread yet, but, well, I was the low man on the totem pole at CNHI and now I'm unemployed.
Hopefully your experience goes differently than mine, but just FYI...

 

CNHI definitely lays off. I knew one person from college who got a job with a CNHI paper and was laid off within a year.

 

I moved across country and was laid off after 4 months. And they all said I did excellent work. So, it wasn't that I sucked...

 

sorry guys. i'm my information is second-hand.

 

This is why I take my personal laptop on road trips. It works better, it has all of my music on it to listen to while I'm writing and it's a hell of a lot faster than whatever my CNHI paper would give me.

 

But that's exactly what they want -- just like they won't pay overtime but will rely on people's sense of pride to make sure they put in the extra hours to do the job.

 

Unfortunately, this is the situation I was put in. All OT is supposed to be approved in advance by the publisher. During tournament time, I couldn't avoid going overtime, not in a two-person sports department. I know I put way too much effort into a product and few people notice. It's the way I was raised.

 

You think the corporate suits who set the budget are savvy enough to think their minions have professionalism? Nope, they're just cheap.

 

didn't yawn work for a little shitty cnhi paper in texas?

what state do you live in SP?