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I think you'll be able to sum up Friday nights in the fall in two words: cluster fuck

 

Heard this affects eight in Abilene on the desk. No word on whether there is any sort of plan in place for how to handle Friday.

 

but wait, a management person told me back in the fall that there were no more changes coming to corpus. i don't understand. you don't think she was less than honest with me, do ya?

 

What type of workload are we talking about? They can't possibly be doing all the design for all four in one spot.

I'd love to hear as much about the nuts and bolts as anybody can provide.

 

Here's the caller.com (Corpus) report:

http://www.caller.com/news/2009/mar/26/caller_times_reorganize/

 

I realize that in this age you can accomplish pretty much anything via phone/internet/etc., but here's your distances:

WFalls to CC: 520 miles or so
Abilene to CC: 400 miles or so
San Angelo to CC: 350 or so

And when the folks they bring in leave/are fired/furloughed/reassigned/whatever, I'm sure they'll be hiring their replacements from the cities those papers cover.

Hell, why don't they just go for the moneyshot and do it all in India?

 

So, eight laid off in Abilene and 18 in Corpus Christi (one of which I know is from sports).

Any word on San Angelo or Wichita Falls?

 

after reading that article, this appears to be one of those times when hindsight says "thank god i didn't get that job" because the position i was in the running for appears to be right in the middle of of this clusterfuck.

 

Having been through the Harte-Hanks sale to Scripps, it's hard to believe how big a change there has been in Scripps (and in the Reporter-News and Caller-Times) in that not-all-that-long time.

 

I'm just baffled. the whole nation/world thing can work. it has plenty of problems, but it can work. but with this? when a wichita falls guy turns in his rider high football story friday night at 11:15 -- along with, what, maybe a dozen staffed games between the four papers -- with all getting sent to corpus, which then has to send pages back ... how the hell is that gonna happen? and are there the final round of page proofs off the first run, or is that gone?

same thing goes with basketball, when you get a boys/girls doubleheader. you get back to your office at 10:15 or 10:30.

this is insane.

sorry, scripps folks.