Next in Line ... Milwaukee

You couldn't resist, could you?

 

:-[ 8)

 

If I'm reading the buyout terms correctly, doesn't that mean he gets 60 weeks of pay? Biz Journals link said two weeks per year of service, plus 10 weeks on top of that (five weeks if you've been there less than 15 years). Isn't that a damn good buyout offer? In any other business, employees would leap at the chance to lock up an entire year's pay. I'm wondering why anyone with 20 or more years would even want to stay there and give the company a year's worth of work for free, because that's what they'll be doing.

 

I'll bet because the individual in question loves to write/report, doesn't want to leave and probably knows the chances of finding a replacement job, one that allows for the same, in the next year or two or three or four or five aren't very good.

 

Say you have 20 years of service and you're 48 years old.

You might wind up working another 10 years at the paper, and make, say, $650,000 gross pay in that time. (I'm figuring in a couple of raises or some OT over the years.)

Or you could take a buyout of about $65,000 or $70,000 and never work again at a newspaper.

 

P.S. on the raging controversy over the sports editor: If the sports editor were a bit of a hot dog but worked hard and edited well, nobody would complain (well, not as much) about the other antics.

 

So getting back to the main topic, who are the seven in sports?

 

I'm sure we'll be shattered and really, really hate Garry.

 

Garry, although he is management, isn't the suit to hate on this one.

 

I know there's a lot of hatred for Garry on here, but he helped my career get going. Talked me up to my executive editor for 25 minutes (according to my EE) when I applied for my first full-time gig. The EE went out of his way to tell me that. I thought that was a nice gesture because I was just an agate clerk at the JS. He didn't have to do that, but he did.

 

Hey, this was locked. What just happened here? Someone on this board get purged or something?

I'm glad it's open, though. Because a lot of good people in Milwaukee deserve to be acknowledged, totally apart from any bashing of J-S management (mine included).