Friday, February 06, 2009
Reno: Reporter seeks laid-off employees. (Again)
From an ironic e-mail, circulating in the Reno Gazette-Journal's newsroom: "Do you know someone who has been laid off and had found a new job or made a career change? We want to hear from them. We're planning a series of stories about people who have made it work, and want to know about folks you've encountered on your beats or people you know."
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Holy shit. If that reporter can't find anyone they're not trying, at all.
ReplyDeleteThis was just posted in a story on msnbc.com.
The U.S. economy has been shedding about a million jobs every two months, and there are no signs that pace will ease up soon. New figures published Friday morning showed the U.S. economy lost 598,000 jobs in January, the most since the end of 1974, pushing the U.S. unemployment rate up to 7.6 percent.
I know; they're trying to find someone who got canned and found a new job, but they are out there!
I think there should be a story about what furloughed employees are doing to create their own personal "plan b" do they are ready for what's coming. That's a good story. Wait. I'm not supposed to be thinking of stories. I'm furloughed.
ReplyDeleteHaving been purged from the Reno Gazette-Journal in August 08, I have obtained out of industry employment with a company moving in the right direction versus the downward spiral of the RGJ.
ReplyDeletehey, 12:40, we must've been sacked on the same day at RGJ. What are your initials? I haven't heard much from those of us let go in that round.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it was an ironic e-mail. I think some poor sap out there is still trying to do 'crowdsourcing.' You go, Gannettoid!
ReplyDeletePerhaps they could interview 12:40 or 5:35. That would be an interesting article. But somehow I don't see, "I have obtained out of industry employment with a company moving in the right direction," making it in the paper.
ReplyDeleteWould it be too ironic to submit the name of a laid off RGJ employee? 5:37, you're right. They still try "crowdsourcing."
ReplyDeleteIf you were purged from the RGJ and found new employment, why don't you use your name and tell us your success story? We're all curious about where to go when we get cut.
ReplyDeleteWhat's black and white and dead all over? This is how RGJ editor Beryl Love started his presentation to the local PRSA last week. His topic was The Future of Print - he talked about "community journalism" and editors becoming "curators" as part of the future. One of the audience members referred to it as wiki-news. Anyone else attend that event?
ReplyDeleteNot sure why they wouldn't interview an ex, it's not like there's anyone that would actually read it.
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ReplyDeleteI couldn't imagine my departure last summer was anything but the worst possible time to be let go. I was wrong and now somewhat grateful that I had a chance of finding new employment before it really started to snowball. To all those that remain (less the two d-heads that showed me exactly how not to layoff someone) my thoughts and prayers are with you.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who was laid off in December from the RGJ, I can only say that this doesn't surprise me in the least. The RGJ's reporters are some of the laziest I have ever worked with. I'm very happy to not work there anymore.
ReplyDeleteWhile my time at the RGJ was not in the newsroom, I didn't have the impression that anyone was lazy just totally uninspired paycheck zombies right out of Joe vs the volcano.
ReplyDeletewell, hell, the Reno Gazette-Journal could call ME. They offed me--oh, sorry, I mean "gave me an opportunity to take early retirement" (and good thing I acepted, because nearly everyone who turned down the "voluntary" deal was cut loose a few months later with a worse one)--a little over a year ago. Today is my first anniversary at a new job in another field. I haven't gone back to the newsroom until recently, and I was shocked at the atmosphere. It was a reasonably happy and companionable place all the years i worked there, but now the reporters converse in whispers, with glances at the window offices that line one side of the room to see who might be watching. When I greeted a friend of more than 20 years, she kept her head down and muttered, "Meet me in the lunchroom." No talking to the people who got away, or just general paranoia?
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