Newspaper publisher: Obama won, I'm out

Because the owner does think it's worth the trouble if her favorite political candidates were elected.

It'd be one thing if the owner was running out of money, couldn't sell the paper, and decided to close up shop. It's another thing to act like a spoiled brat and all of a sudden decide to quit. That's what this owner did, with hardly any notice to her employees.

If the work was too hard for her, then she should have tried to find a buyer. Even if she would have taken a loss. Because after all, getting some money is better than no money, right?

 

Oh, and BTW, she blames Obamacare, which requires employers to provide coverage or pay the penalty. Employers of 50 or more people. The story said she only employed a dozen. So, she either was misinformed, ignorant, or a liar.

 

And no one moved hundreds or a thousand miles to work for a weekly owned by this woman, either.

People make choices all the time. And almost all of them for their OWN interests. They owe no responsibility to their previous employers, and their future employers owe no responsibility to them.

You have a responsibility to YOURSELF to weigh everything and to make the most informed decisions you can --- knowing everything could still blow up, because that's how life is sometimes. That's why the employment contract generally states "This agreement can be terminated BY EITHER PARTY AT ANY TIME."

You and your employer are basically agreeing, "We need each other today, but that could change tomorrow."

 

My current employer spent $2,500 to relocate me, on top of $600+ to fly me in for an interview and put me up at a hotel and feed me.

They went through all the paperwork required to bring me aboard, then spent another two weeks training me.

If, after that, I had received a better offer from some company down the block and asked SportsJournalists.com what I should do, everyone would have said, "Take the job. You must do the right thing for yourself."

And they would have been right. But it does go both ways. That's where we often get it wrong. I owe my employer a day's work; they owe me a day's pay. That's it. I can leave tomorrow. They can get rid of me tomorrow.

 

Can I have your current employer? $2500? $600 to fly in?

I like your current employer.

 

Yes, this lady is a tool.

That said, it's always easy to spend other people's money.

It's amazing how many people think it's a right to have a job.

 

Well, there are right to work states now, so I wonder where people are getting the idea from.

And she wouldn't be criticized, at least not heavily, if her business was struggling and she'd have to shut it down. She's getting ripped on here for being an absolute tool and giving her employees who are counting on her to have some sanity the boot with little warning right before Christmas.

 

Yet it's bad form to quit without notice, right?

 

Anybody who thinks "right-to-work state" means you have a right to a job in that state also probably thinks the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democracy.

 

I know. The nerve of those right to work Communists.

 

I wouldn't have necessarily. The "right thing for yourself" is to protect your integrity and soul to some extent, and you're not necessarily going to do that by breaking a commitment.

Again: What a hill to die on, this lady. There are far better examples at play.

 

Don't get me wrong, she is a petty, vindictive idiot. But she still doesn't owe anyone anything. She decided to get out of publishing, her reasons are not really important. Her dime, her paper, her decision.