Worst company to work for

[schrdp2002]

JRC...

 

[Job Sisyphus]

From what I've heard of friends stuck on that particular prison barge, Boone by far. Media General is not too bad. We got all of the toys we wanted (new 2.8 lens, work cell phones, .37 for mileage) all except for a full AP subscription.

Boone is like JRC's retarded hillbilly cousin. Penny-pinching, backward, inbred idiots. They're dopey and dumb, but you don't get the feeling they are always motivated by sheer undistilled hate, such as flows from the Urinal of Infinity at Casa Jello-neck..

For sheer venomous viciousness of spirit, nobody touches the Taliban of American Journalism.

 

[Bamadog]

From what I've heard of friends stuck on that particular prison barge, Boone by far. Media General is not too bad. We got all of the toys we wanted (new 2.8 lens, work cell phones, .37 for mileage) all except for a full AP subscription.

Windows 95 at JRC

95! 95! (coffee squirts through nose) 95! Jeez.....

 

[GuessWho]

Given recent events, there might be some folks in Dallas who'd like to add Belo to the list.

 

[printdust]

I've talked with some people who thought Gannett was bad, until they were bought by CNHI. Lying is an art form...for the poster who mentioned that, he's accurate there. Pretty damn soon, their salary to revenue (as opposed to salary to expenses, which is what most companies do), will result in a building with a lot of good equipment, but no one to run it of any quality or morale because of the screw job they do with salaries.
They're begging to return to Gannett's bosom. And I never thought I'd hear that on this board.

 

[Colton]

Printdust: Have to agree completely, save for the equipment: We had dogshirt at my shop.

CNHI sucks goat balls (lamb chops?).

 

[DyePack]

I've talked with some people who thought Gannett was bad, until they were bought by CNHI.  Lying is an art form...for the poster who mentioned that, he's accurate there. Pretty damn soon, their salary to revenue (as opposed to salary to expenses, which is what most companies do), will result in a building with a lot of good equipment, but no one to run it of any quality or morale because of the screw job they do with salaries.
They're begging to return to Gannett's bosom.  And I never thought I'd hear that on this board.

I believe that was me.

They don't care if they have any quality or morale. As long as they can find enough people in the community willing to take their shirt wages, then fill in the other holes with whatever they can get, they're happy. They absolutely do not care about what kind of product they are putting out.

 

[lono]

Sorry, it's still JRC.

 

[luckyducky]

Where's Lee?

Another vote for Lee, about to let two (semi-decent) weekly papers disappear into nothingness because of inept management.

While it's sad to see papers die, I am enjoying watching the carnage. The editor at one of the weeklies had it coming. Dumb b!tch.

Alright, back to the thread...

 

[terrier]

The JRC sweatshop I left two years ago had Windows 95...and no full-time tech person (there was one shared by 3-5 papers). I'll bet the cost of Windows 98 is still too dauntng.

 

[WHA73]

   The JRC sweatshop I left two years ago had Windows 95...and no full-time tech person (there was one shared by 3-5 papers). I'll bet the cost of Windows 98 is still too dauntng.

Guess ME or 2000 is out of the question as well, especially since stock is now at an all time low of 8.21 hahhahahahha

 

[Cosmo]

What about Media General? I'm a candidate for a writing position at one of their papers. Good beneifts? Are they top-driven like Gannett? your thoughts?

The pay isn't great ... but at least at my shop, they seem to want to put money in the product. The credit card thing is weird. We get them at a smaller paper, but the big boys in Richmond don't. They also have company cars for trips, we don't. Mileage is at .37 now; company laptops (which I don't use just because I like mine); credit cards for travel expenses; good benefits; I don't really have a lot of bad things to say about MG. My past experiences were with Pulitzer and Lee, which were, let's say, very CAREFUL with their money.