State of journalism

[Crimson Tide]

a few weeks ago, a buddy of mine showed up at his SE job and his editor called him into his office. editor states: "dude, cooperate says we're going in different directions. even though i don't agree with that choice, i really am sorry, really, but cooperate says get your shirt out of the forking office right now. here's your check ... thanks for the years of service."

cat's replacement sat down at my boy's desk and took over just one hour after he left the building. ... 60 minutes.

Wow, that's a suicide waiting to happen.

 

[espnguy]

And people wonder why "right to work" states have become so prevalent. That's why newspapers (and any other biz) can get away with this stuff legally. It may not be morally or ethically right, but that's what our politicians did for us -- screw over the average working Joe while cow-towing to corporate America.

Regardless, I hope your friend consults a good labor attorney. He has nothing to lose and everything to potentially gain.

 

[Tom Petty]

pleased to say espn, my boy found work at a mag in one of the country's two largest cities and received about 20K more a year for his troubles.

doesn't happen that way too often, though. ... although he could have had a job with me any time he wanted.

 

[sartrean]

Take the desk job.

Not really sure, but I bet I can draw unemployment. So fork the desk, beside I've done it before and it's heck, and I was never good at it.

I'm going to give them six more weeks of about 32 hours a week, down about 32 hours a week, then I'm going to file for unemployment and live off of these motherforkers for as long as I can, sit around the house and hang out with my dog, play video games, bang strange women I meet in bars, go to Prep games as a spectator and tell people to go get forked when they ask me to put an article in the paper about their kid. I'm going to have fun with this.

And for whomever asked, my $2.50-a-day-latte is really $40-a-day-quarter-grain-of-heroin.

Actually, going to a Prep game just to enjoy it as a spectator might be worth being unemployed.

 

[Double J]

I'm going to give them six more weeks of about 32 hours a week, down about 32 hours a week, then I'm going to file for unemployment and live off of these motherforkers for as long as I can, sit around the house and hang out with my dog, play video games, bang strange women I meet in bars, go to Prep games as a spectator and tell people to go get forked when they ask me to put an article in the paper about their kid. I'm going to have fun with this.

Classic!

Enjoy yourself, seriously.

 

[ronalong]

I don't think newspaper will ever disappear and the internet take over. I still see people reading newspapers as I pass bus stops in the morning on the way to work. I think dailies will shrink, but I read a industry article recently about community newspapers are growing as the large dailies are losing readers. Consider working at a community newspaper and only covering a small area, forget working up to covering the NFL. The future may be covering preps at a community newspaper. I work in a southern state and know of four new community newspaper start ups in the last year.

 

[gandhithegreat]

Isn't the OCR part of Belo/Dallas Morning News?

 

[scalper]

Great advice, Ronalong. Be sure to mention that the kids out there should also never consider making more than $30,000 a year.

If you can do anything other than journalism, get out. Don't walk, run.

The newspaper is the AM transistor radio in an ipod world.

RUN!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Songbird]

Great advice, Ronalong. Be sure to mention that the kids out there should also never consider making more than $30,000 a year.

If you can do anything other than journalism, get out. Don't walk, run.

The newspaper is the AM transistor radio in an ipod world.

RUN!!!!!!!!!!

"AM transistor radio in an ipod world."

Very nice.

 

[Bob_Jelloneck]

sart - i hope you land on your feet no matter what you choose.

douchebags have lost their jobs since the beginning of time. nowadays, though, good people are getting whacked simply for breathing, working theirs asses off and drawing checks.

i truly am sorry life sucks for you right now, but, take the damned desk job, quit spending the $2.50 a day on lattes -- or whatever your $2.50-a-day "latte" is -- and then regroup, and get the fork out. in a way, you're a little lucky as you have time to get your shirt together and move on on your own terms.

a few weeks ago, a buddy of mine showed up at his SE job and his editor called him into his office. editor states: "dude, cooperate says we're going in different directions. even though i don't agree with that choice, i really am sorry, really, but cooperate says get your shirt out of the forking office right now. here's your check ... thanks for the years of service."

cat's replacement sat down at my boy's desk and took over just one hour after he left the building. ... 60 minutes.

the rest of us all should give our editors/publishers a hug today. i'm sure your editor/publisher and my editor/publisher would never do that type of shirt to you and i, right?

You have done well, Lex Luthor.

Kneel before Bob!!

 

[Birdscribe]

Isn't the OCR part of Belo/Dallas Morning News?

No, it's privately owned (save for the 40% Blackstone Group owns) by Freedom Communications.