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Riptide · Dec 24, 2012

I hope I don't have to go back to the FUBAR of newspapers. They are Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. And they take it out on the people they keep, which is just horrible.

dog eat dog world · Dec 24, 2012

Doc Holliday said:

beanpole said:

Mark2010 said:

Colton said:

dog eat dog world said:

Actually my buds are late pretty regularly now. And they've come to the conclusion that nothing will be done because if they fire them, corporate may not replace them, so the local powers that be realize that would make the situation worse. But, they have come up with an idea: suspend people for mistakes. Even excessive traffic tickets. Yeah that's right, suspensions for tickets, even if they're on their own time.

I'm so glad I got out of the most toxic work environment I ever took part in.
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They have actually FIRED people at my shop because of too many traffic tickets, all accumulated on their own time.
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How the fuck is that legal unless the persons are driving a company vehicle?
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It was at the same time that this policy went into effect that my office stopped doing a holiday Christmas party because we didn't want the liability of someone drinking one to many beers at a company function and getting a DUI or worse on the way home.
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Here's a novel idea. How about a Christmas party without serving alcohol?

I suspect that your company is too cheap to pay for a nice dinner and a $25 giftcard to Walmart. THAT is the real reason for no longer having a Christmas party --- NOT the fear of someone getting a DWI.

But please continue living in that idealistic world. I used to live there, decades ago, and I wish I could somehow return but reality keeps slapping me in the face.
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Doc Holliday said:

beanpole said:

Mark2010 said:

Colton said:

dog eat dog world said:

Actually my buds are late pretty regularly now. And they've come to the conclusion that nothing will be done because if they fire them, corporate may not replace them, so the local powers that be realize that would make the situation worse. But, they have come up with an idea: suspend people for mistakes. Even excessive traffic tickets. Yeah that's right, suspensions for tickets, even if they're on their own time.

I'm so glad I got out of the most toxic work environment I ever took part in.
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They have actually FIRED people at my shop because of too many traffic tickets, all accumulated on their own time.
Click to expand...

How the fuck is that legal unless the persons are driving a company vehicle?
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It was at the same time that this policy went into effect that my office stopped doing a holiday Christmas party because we didn't want the liability of someone drinking one to many beers at a company function and getting a DUI or worse on the way home.
Click to expand...

Here's a novel idea. How about a Christmas party without serving alcohol?

I suspect that your company is too cheap to pay for a nice dinner and a $25 giftcard to Walmart. THAT is the real reason for no longer having a Christmas party --- NOT the fear of someone getting a DWI.

But please continue living in that idealistic world. I used to live there, decades ago, and I wish I could somehow return but reality keeps slapping me in the face.
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This sounds like something the guy who ran the last paper I was at before "retiring" would do. He's what corporate wants - a yes man who can find ways of cutting and making the remaining people miserable; he was the one who came up with the three tickets and you're fired idea, and got a bonus from it because it saved the company money on its insurance. I saw one of the suffering servants today and they said he gave them their bonuses...a box of baked goods each. Most went in the dumpster in the employee parking lot.

ColdCat · Dec 24, 2012

Doc Holliday said:

Here's a novel idea. How about a Christmas party without serving alcohol?
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or the company could spring for taxis

Mark2010 · Dec 24, 2012

Someone got a gift card?!?!?! Holy crap! I have gotten them from co-workers and even supervisors, but not from the company itself.

Doc Holliday · Dec 25, 2012

Mark2010 said:

Someone got a gift card?!?!?! Holy crap!
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In the immortal words of Tom Petty: Stellar.

milkboneunderwear · Dec 25, 2012

dog eat dog world said:

Doc Holliday said:

beanpole said:

Mark2010 said:

Colton said:

dog eat dog world said:

Actually my buds are late pretty regularly now. And they've come to the conclusion that nothing will be done because if they fire them, corporate may not replace them, so the local powers that be realize that would make the situation worse. But, they have come up with an idea: suspend people for mistakes. Even excessive traffic tickets. Yeah that's right, suspensions for tickets, even if they're on their own time.

I'm so glad I got out of the most toxic work environment I ever took part in.
Click to expand...

They have actually FIRED people at my shop because of too many traffic tickets, all accumulated on their own time.
Click to expand...

How the fuck is that legal unless the persons are driving a company vehicle?
Click to expand...

It was at the same time that this policy went into effect that my office stopped doing a holiday Christmas party because we didn't want the liability of someone drinking one to many beers at a company function and getting a DUI or worse on the way home.
Click to expand...

Here's a novel idea. How about a Christmas party without serving alcohol?

I suspect that your company is too cheap to pay for a nice dinner and a $25 giftcard to Walmart. THAT is the real reason for no longer having a Christmas party --- NOT the fear of someone getting a DWI.

But please continue living in that idealistic world. I used to live there, decades ago, and I wish I could somehow return but reality keeps slapping me in the face.
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Doc Holliday said:

beanpole said:

Mark2010 said:

Colton said:

dog eat dog world said:

Actually my buds are late pretty regularly now. And they've come to the conclusion that nothing will be done because if they fire them, corporate may not replace them, so the local powers that be realize that would make the situation worse. But, they have come up with an idea: suspend people for mistakes. Even excessive traffic tickets. Yeah that's right, suspensions for tickets, even if they're on their own time.

I'm so glad I got out of the most toxic work environment I ever took part in.
Click to expand...

They have actually FIRED people at my shop because of too many traffic tickets, all accumulated on their own time.
Click to expand...

How the fuck is that legal unless the persons are driving a company vehicle?
Click to expand...

It was at the same time that this policy went into effect that my office stopped doing a holiday Christmas party because we didn't want the liability of someone drinking one to many beers at a company function and getting a DUI or worse on the way home.
Click to expand...

Here's a novel idea. How about a Christmas party without serving alcohol?

I suspect that your company is too cheap to pay for a nice dinner and a $25 giftcard to Walmart. THAT is the real reason for no longer having a Christmas party --- NOT the fear of someone getting a DWI.

But please continue living in that idealistic world. I used to live there, decades ago, and I wish I could somehow return but reality keeps slapping me in the face.
Click to expand...

This sounds like something the guy who ran the last paper I was at before "retiring" would do. He's what corporate wants - a yes man who can find ways of cutting and making the remaining people miserable; he was the one who came up with the three tickets and you're fired idea, and got a bonus from it because it saved the company money on its insurance. I saw one of the suffering servants today and they said he gave them their bonuses...a box of baked goods each. Most went in the dumpster in the employee parking lot.
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You're saying the publisher who was in charge of your paper is the one who came up with the safe driving rule, ran it up the pipes at CNHI, and then got a bonus from CNHI? You sure do run into your former co-workers a lot in your new job -- seems like every day this week you've seen them. And were you digging through the garbage to know the baked goods went in the trash? Are you sure you worked at a newspaper, or are you just an imposter? Newspaper people don't throw away free food. We gobble it up like locusts.

TheSportsPredictor · Dec 25, 2012

Must be a right-to-work state.

da man · Dec 25, 2012

Not trying to gloat, but this year everyone at our place received a $100 gift card as a present from the boss and I was given a $1,000 year-end bonus from the company.

It's good to be out of the newspaper business.

Doc Holliday · Dec 25, 2012

Not trying to gloat, but I got a $100 bonus once ... in 30 years.

Colton · Jan 3, 2013

Dropped my $35 Christmas bonus gift card, along with a $100 bill, at the local Big Brothers/Big Sisters yesterday.

The good people there were so appreciative, I was pretty much embarrassed.

Best I've felt about anything related to my shop in years.

dog eat dog world · Jan 9, 2013

You got to bet CNHI brass were partying in Miami into Monday.

Just so you guys know, Nick Saban benefits from your furloughs.

Absurd as it may be.

Colton · Jan 9, 2013

dog eat dog world said:

You got to bet CNHI brass were partying in Miami into Monday.

Just so you guys know, Nick Saban benefits from your furloughs.

Absurd as it may be.
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