Referring to President and Chief Operating Officer Gracia Martore's just-granted $250,000 pay raise, Anonymous@12:46 a.m. writes in a new comment: "I just can't get past the $950K direct compensation with stock. At our paper, the bathrooms smell and get cleaned once a week. We have to bring in our soap. We keep most of the lights turned off and the heat is shut down in major parts of the building. We have not purchased a new PC in three years. Photos are taken with personal cameras. Our walls need paint and our carpets show threads. This is really insulting."
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Mail | A $250K raise vs. smelly bathrooms, no heat
Referring to President and Chief Operating Officer Gracia Martore's just-granted $250,000 pay raise, Anonymous@12:46 a.m. writes in a new comment: "I just can't get past the $950K direct compensation with stock. At our paper, the bathrooms smell and get cleaned once a week. We have to bring in our soap. We keep most of the lights turned off and the heat is shut down in major parts of the building. We have not purchased a new PC in three years. Photos are taken with personal cameras. Our walls need paint and our carpets show threads. This is really insulting."
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Our "information center" is also a dump. I won't bring sources into the building for interviews because it's such an embarrassment. They haven't bothered to clean our threadbare carpet in years. The HVAC system is shot and we bake in summer and freeze in the winter. The bathrooms have started to stink, which is probably a symptom of some other cost-cutting initiative.
ReplyDeleteOf course, this is minor stuff compared to the furloughs and the ever present threat of getting pink-slipped.
We still do annual reviews even though there is no hope of getting a raise. Someday, I hope to work for an employer who treats its workers a little better than serfs.
That sounds like our place, but I fear we're it could apply to almost any of the 84.
ReplyDeleteCircles of mold surround air ducts in our newsroom and its bathrooms.
Gannett "management" has adopted a new Mission Statement for 2010:
"LET THEM EAT CAKE."
Yup, same here. The bathrooms look and smell terrible. Computers are ancient. Last week we could barely print page proofs b/c the one printer on our floor that worked was crumpling pages. The office furniture is beat-up, falling apart and configured like it was purchased at a garage sale. Last week a coworkers desk collapsed. No kidding. Still hasn't been fixed, it's being held up with a cardboard box.
ReplyDeleteBefore I was laid off in July we had a printer much the way you describe the crumpled paper machine. I called it the origami maker 3000.
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