"These are consolidations and other targeted moves, and this is just our life going forward."
-- Anonymous@5:11 p.m., accusing me of trying to "stir the pot," by reporting that Corporate has launched another round of layoffs.
Friday, April 03, 2009
Move along, whiners -- nothing to see here
-- Anonymous@5:11 p.m., accusing me of trying to "stir the pot," by reporting that Corporate has launched another round of layoffs.
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Hey 5:11:
ReplyDeleteDude, unless your name is Craig Dubow, you, too, could be one of these "whiners" one day.
It's obvious, judging by the arrogance in your tone, that you think you are safe.
All it would take for YOU to lose your job/income/career/peace of mind is for some disconnected asshole to decide that the product you produce (or the service you provide) is no longer justified by the salary you earn. Period. End of story.
Have some humility, dude. I'd kill to have my old job back. Four months and counting, and no job for me.
Four months and counting for me, too, and no job. I wouldn't kill for my old job back, however. Because I know that's never going to happen, and secondly, I wouldn't want to be in what must feel like swimming in the ocean on a lovely summer day until the undertow starts pulling you out to sea.
ReplyDeleteIf people still working in Gannett print media newsrooms haven't been slowly freaking out since December, and then the last furlough and now the second furlough, then the regionalization of things like copy editing etc. and rampant rumors of big layoffs must be causing huge discomfort. And I feel for them. Yeah, I wish I could find a job and get some decent healthcare (me and millions of others), but my suffering over what happened to me at a Gannett newspaper is over. It's all up from here because it can't get much lower. My friends have no idea what it's like to get laid off and I hope they don't find out, but trying to do a decent writing and editing job while worried sick over the future must be awful. I hope those who read this blog have taken note of the many kind writers who have urged people to have a plan of action in place, some money saved up, etc.
12:06:
ReplyDeleteYou are right. We are so better off. And it's funny, I don't know if I've ever been happier in my whole life than I am right now. I get to be with my children for the first time ever. I don't lie awake until 3 in the morning replaying the day's hair-raising events. My heart doesn't leap out of my chest 20 times a day over this or that "emergency," like an un-updated budget line. I don't have five editors who think they know my job better than me, or frazzled colleagues dropping the F-bomb over a typo or an incomplete photo assignment or an editing direction.
I used to think I'd die without my newsroom job. But now I realize there's actually a life for me, away from all the craziness.
Now, if my unemployment runs out before I find a job, I might feel differently. But you are right, 12:06. LIke I heard tonight on the "ER" finale, at least I know how and when it ended. Unlike my former collegues, who are still wondering.
Good luck to you. As for me, I'm moving on to a career in healthcare. At least I know I'll be doing some tangible good one day -- I won't have to wait for a 4 on my revuew that'll never come -- and I'll ALWAYS have a job.
12:43 if you think you'll ALWAYS have a job you are living in Neverland.
ReplyDelete11:52 pm I can't agree with tthe 5:11 dude more.
I am always concerned about my job but it doesn't do me any go to sit around and fret. I save as much as I can and then live every day to the fullest.
I am so convinced that the downsizing and consolidation of Gannett is a case of executives making changes they've always wanted to do but couldn't justify until the onset of this recession/depression.
ReplyDeleteNever let a crisis go to waste, so to speak.
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Doubtful. The more staff members execs have, the more they can blame failures on them. The less staff, the more exposed they themselves and their lmited skills become.
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