Prep sports editor, Athens (Ga.)

Would certainly not be the first time either has happened. My last joint, I had to convince the HR director that my paper really was being stolen every day to get out of the subscription deal. At another joint, with the exception of coming in really late at night, you were responsible for finding a metered parking spot 99 percent of the time. There was a parking garage, but you had to pay for it.

 

I can think of at least one decent-sized paper that makes its employees pay to park in their garage. Less if you were a second-shifter.

 

My paper is right in the middle of downtown, where parking is both limited and costly. A subscription to the paper (which I would have bought anyway) gets you a parking pass.

 

Well, if you live in your car it's a pretty good deal on rent.

 

back in the day, you pay for parking, but it was only until like 5 p.m. after that, it didn't matter if you paid or not. so for most night folks, parking was free. and, well, there's always ways for the sharp folks to get around it

 

take the bus. not hard at all in the ATH.

 

That would be the AHN, and unless you intentionally live on a bus line (which means in one of the poorer neighborhoods in some cases), it can be very difficult. I once tried to bus to an old job, with once being the operative word.

The point is that Morris Communications is CHEAP, and nickels and dimes their employees.

 

Pretty sure the bus isn't gonna take you to Commerce on a Thursday afternoon to do a preview.

 

or Prince Avenue Christian School, where they "strive to equip our students with the truth, understanding, and discernment leading to life-changing transformation as they pursue the mind of Christ.", as they say on their monotone radio commercials on 960 the Ref, driving my kids nuts as we drive to school.

 

Hey, they're a hell of a lot more sane than the people at ACS. Which is to say, the Cummings family, nice though they may be.

 

but they run like the wind