layoffs in Greensboro

Does anyone know how long the layoffs were known about, or was this a Pearl Harbor job?

 

Damn it. We're all doomed. I need to seriously start thinking about a new career.

 

That might not be a bad idea. Newspapers as you know it on 6-10-07 will much different by 6-10-17. That's only a decade away. Like it or not, it's time to face reality, it is a dying business. I've been through some lean times but the horror stories that are coming out now are almost unbelieveable.

 

SPNA is doing a contest for what the newspaper will look like in 2017. I'm tempted to send in a blank piece of paper.

 

It's bad enough that the paper is owned by a billionaire family. Somehow, I think they'll be able to put food on the table. But it's worse when we see a situation like Monica Chen's.

We can only hope the editor was blindsided, and that these cuts were proposed after her hiring. But somehow I have my doubts. And if that's the case, that's disgusting. I don't think I'm alone in having a problem with a family that can make multi-million dollar charitable donations, yet oversee a company that can botch a situation like Chen's, much less all the other lives they've thrown into chaos. Yes, it's their money and their companies - but these are lives and a lot more than some stupid labor numbers in a beancounter's calculator.

This is bad, and obviously Durham was a big mess. The motto that ran for a long time - "I like calling North Carolina home" - is starting to sound rather hollow right now.

 

I don't think she has any legal recourse but I hope SOMEONE takes her case pro bono.

 

If management knew of their health situations, then they and the billionaire chairmen are even more disgusting people than I originally thought. Thanks for the added insight.

 

One designer who got laid off came to Greensboro from Durham after surviving the layoffs there.

 

I can top that: I'll take a picture of my laptop, print it out and send it in.

All kidding aside, I've begun to hate this particular forum --- not the site as a whole, just the J-Topics forum. It seems like every time I bring it up, all I ever see are threads regarding layoffs here, mass cuts there, buyouts elsewhere. A lot of good people are getting hurt for no good reason, and quite honestly I don't think the suits even have long-term plans to either turn it around or move into the digital age; they just see their huge profit margins shrinking, panic and start slashing.

Will her old employer take her back? I hope so. (Or is this a first post-college job for her?)

The publisher has known this was coming for two months. Why the hell did he even approve Miss Chen's hiring, then? Just to keep up appearances and try to hide the damage before he dropped a truck on his staff? That's unconscionable.

This business runs on leaks. Somebody should have leaked it to her.

Fifty years from now, my grandchildren will ask me why I left the newspaper business. I'll tell them, "The people running what should be a great public trust broke my heart one time too many."

 

Don't worry about.
It's not like there's any interest in sports down there.
Jeebus, what a bloodletting.
Hang in there.

 

Christ ... yer gonna have to bring Bill Haas out of retirement ...