gannett plans to layoff 3,000 by december.

Wow. Happy Turkey Day. Nice. Turkeys indeed.

 

You know they would love that. They wouldn't have to fork over holiday pay or pay for all the personal days people will take on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

It's really funny that they just keep trimming and trimming and the problems get worse and worse. You'd think someone in corporate would have caught on by now.

 

We've been told at our shop Dec. 10 will be D-Day now. I think we've got some people out of the office the week of Dec. 3 or something.

 

Helluva time for a visit from The Turk.

 

The boss wants to see ya. And bring your playbook.

 

Fixed. :-\

 

Dammit. You made it funnier!

 

I'm good enough to edit for The Plain Dealer, dammit!

 

It's probably a factor. If they can save themselves having to pay holiday pay for Thanksgiving, Xmas and New Years, I would believe they would. Some places get holiday pay for Dec. 24 and Dec. 31, so that would factor in as well...

Soulless fucks...

 

True enough. Our plant (glass industry) is temporarily shutting down some lines so we can start clearing out the ware that's currently overstuffing our warehouses. We're a union shop, and everybody who works within 30 days of a holiday gets paid for that day. So, the original date of the cutback? Nov. 23, or exactly 31 days before our Christmas holiday period begins.

 

Gannett's policy, at least I understand it is holiday pay on Dec. 25, and January 1st. Dec. 24 and 31 are not Holiday's. In the past, I'm told employees would get half days for each "eve" but now they get two floating holidays to use anytime.

 

I have two friends at a Gannett paper. One is 100 percent positive he's getting cut and the other is 90 percent sure he's gone. One of the two is concocting a plan to fall down the stairs and milk as much workman's comp as he can out of them.

A couple years ago, I would have told him how terrible and dishonest that is. Now I think he's a genius.