gannett plans to layoff 3,000 by december.

when I saw the thing about the fruit, I couldn't help but think about the opening scene in Eight Men Out when the Sox come in after winning the AL pennant and see the champagne and ask the office flunky about the bonus they were promised. The office flunky says "this is the bonus."
One of the players takes a swig and says "it's flat."

 

So can we place bets on when Gannett goes under, and then make it happen?

 

Haven't all Gannetters been shorting the stock in the last couple years?

 

Des Moines Register publisher says paper "suffered through the anguish" of the firings, then proceeds to say how much better they're going to be.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090712/OPINION/907120341/1036/Opinion

Among the comments, there are a few people that really rip on her and Gannett.

 

This guy puts it rather bluntly:

 

Hope so. Given the way Gannett is treating them, I hope they made out like fucking Wall St. bandits.

 

I can't afford to buy the stock because I work for Gannett.

 

Now Gannett is trying to make money off selling fruit. Did management charge for a whole piece of fruit, give only half and then say it's what you wanted and just as good as the whole fruit?

 

Or, when it came time to pass the fruit, did the editors inform you of the "no jump" policy and make you hold it in all day?

 

Fruit 2000.

 

Even if all you needed was an apple, they made you dig through the fruit bowl and take a banana and a pear as well just to make sure all aspects of the fruit bowl's diversity were properly represented.

 

Sadly, not every department got its choice of fruit.
News had to eat blueberries. Sports got apples. The financial reporters got stuck with the pears, and features had to eat only grapes.