Wednesday, April 27, 2011

April 25-May 1 | Your News & Comments: Part 2

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  1. For Part 1 of this comment thread, please go here.

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  2. Larry Weisman was an NFL writer for USA Today before joining the Washington Redskins' PR department in 2009. The Redskins fired Weisman on (of all days) Good Friday.

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  3. The editor in Rochester, Karen Magnuson, announced a selective wage freeze late this afternoon - no merit raises for the next year. She said this was a Community Newspaper decision and implied some or all of the other papers will have freezes. The word "selective" is necessary because she said she was given a "small merit pool" she would use to give raises to some employees. No criteria for these raises were disclosed. Perhaps the corporate poobahs, stung by the widespread criticism of their personal enrichment at our expense, wish to deflect further attention by creating a new class of specially entitled employees in each workplace.
    Think it'll work?

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  4. On "World News Tonight," Diane Sawyer just did a piece on Facebook's foray into online coupon deals. She mentioned other like-minded sites such as Living Social, but not Deal Chicken. Huh?

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  5. The editor in Rochester, Karen Magnuson, announced a selective wage freeze late this afternoon - no merit raises for the next year. She said this was a Community Newspaper decision and implied some or all of the other papers will have freezes. The word "selective" is necessary because she said she was given a "small merit pool" she would use to give raises to some employees. No criteria for these raises were disclosed. Perhaps the corporate poobahs, stung by the widespread criticism of their personal enrichment at our expense, wish to deflect further attention by creating a new class of specially entitled employees in each workplace.
    Think it'll work?
    4/26/2011 6:09 PM

    At the Arizona Republic - we always had and still do have "small merit pools" even when raise were supposedly frozen some people still got raises. The funny thing was, is that all management knew about this (I was part of management) because we saw the spreadsheets (it was not hidden to us) but we were told that only select individuals we be given raises to be ultimately determined by the publisher (JZ). I assume it is the same at all papers, as usual all smoke and mirrors.

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  6. Why lay people off when you can fire them?
    Develop a performance improvement plan, wait 90 days, rremove staff at reduced expense.
    Sound familiar? If so you could be next.

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  7. At the Arizona Republic - we always had and still do have "small merit pools" even when raise were supposedly frozen some people still got raises. The funny thing was, is that all management knew about this (I was part of management) because we saw the spreadsheets (it was not hidden to us) but we were told that only select individuals we be given raises to be ultimately determined by the publisher (JZ). I assume it is the same at all papers, as usual all smoke and mirrors.

    4/26/2011 7:34 PM

    Wow, what a way to tell the rest of the employees how lowly management thinks of them.

    On the other side no surprise: at headquarters they gave out bonuses - worker bees that did the leg work got nothing.

    What an inspiring concept - that really gets the employees doubling up their efforts doing a great job!

    The best reaction to such blatant double-standard: apply for another job and leave Gannett. The satisfaction comes with better pay and better opportunities.

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  8. 8:12 They have always given out merit pay raises.

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  9. NY Times To Clone Groupon for small local companies that aren't sophisticated in their marketing. - http://ow.ly/4HDzo
    Everyone is in on the deals....Gannett might do ok, given the success in Phoenix.

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  10. From an ex Gannetteer who feels your pain...
    When is enough,enough, when will Gannett cross your line,what determines your end of the rope.
    I have friends still with Gannett,and none can really give an answer.They just take the mental abuse,work through the day after day stress,collect their check and repeat cycle.Their lives are hell ,no one enjoys being around them as the stress and the hattred for Gannett has made them bitter people.
    They are so very UNHAPPY it reaches their soles.
    They have to get up every day go whore themselves for Gannett,and what's more,not knowing if this week or next is their last.

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  11. Are y'all noticing a trend of beat writers who also have blogs doing postups that are all of one sentence and then directing people to their blogs for more information?

    I mean, I get that the days of "two sources before you print/post" are gone, but this is ridiculous. But I know, I know -- how else can it be OK that you publish sentences that don't have verbs, have one sentence say one thing, the second say the opposite as fact and quote somebody contradicting the second sentence in the third?

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  12. I have friends still with Gannett,and none can really give an answer.They just take the mental abuse,work through the day after day stress,collect their check and repeat cycle.Their lives are hell ,no one enjoys being around them as the stress and the hattred for Gannett has made them bitter people.
    They are so very UNHAPPY it reaches their soles.
    They have to get up every day go whore themselves for Gannett,and what's more,not knowing if this week or next is their last.
    4/26/2011 9:59 PM

    When I used to work for Gannett, I just took the check and did my daily work, even though the company was and still is a complete piece of crap. I still just worked my 40 hours a week and went home. Ya, sometimes there was still more work in a 40 hour week but the bottom line was that I still just worked a 40 hour week. I didn't look at it as stress at all and I couldn't work more than 40 hours because overtime was never approved. So it was kinda funny, management was stuck between a rock and hard place because they needed the work done but couldn't pay for it and couldn't keep us there without paying us, so we would just go home and pick up where we left off the next day; if it was something that needed to be done by deadline that day we either stayed after and left early one other day that week or another person who came in later would pick up where I left off. No matter what, and under no circumstances did I ever work more than 40 hours per week. So I really don't get it when people keep saying its more stressful. Like I said I was laid off and the company is crappy, but you need to make sense of your argument. Working for the Arizona Republic was a breeze; upper management would always ask more of their workers but then when they found out it couldn't be done in a 40 hour work week and they wouldn't pay for it to be done, it was just forgotten about.

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  13. "Selective" wage freeze in Nashville, too. Only top percentage of best performers on evaluation will get any increase. All others are SOL. So...this begs the question: Who the hell does Craig appraisal? Pretty abysmal performance if you ask me.

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  14. 10:19 -- Everybody needs to subscribe to your attitude. I do. We are all burger flippers now. I go in, punch the clock, do my time then leave. If I'm asked to work something additional in, I immediately note that it will probably require overtime and get it approved up front. If the OT is approved, I take the money. If it's not, I leave on schedule. And OT is only approved in the most drastic situations.

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  15. Hey, 10:10, even better are blogs that purport to be breaking news. Did you hear the one about the last typewriter factory on earth closing?

    http://tinyurl.com/44ajrnj

    But, but, but I read it in the Daily Mail! It must be true! They're British!

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  16. Only the top performers should get a raise.

    Bear with me:

    If the goal for company is to increase value for shareholders, it behooves the company to incentivize behaviors that move towards that goal.

    It makes no financial sense to increase your investment in anything for no added benefit. If your car is paid off, you're not still sending money to the bank, right? Not like it's going to start getting better mileage.

    Now if you decide to make an investment in a cool spoiler that bumps you up 1 mpg, that's a good decision. You've increased your investment in the car to get a proven return. On the other hand, you buy some awesome flame stickers for the sides, well you might feel good but you're not going to get any further down the road.

    Obviously, this is simplified - but also obviously, this is what's in play. With a limited raise pool, the top performers will be rewarded. Whatever top performance looks like at your site, if you want a raise, you're going to have to fit that mold. Whether it's actual top performance or top ass-kisser, you have to decide whether a raise is worth the effort you will have to put into it.

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  17. 6:59AM-Well put

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  18. 6:43 That report on the last typewriter also appeared on USA Today, and was altered during the day as corrections and clarifications came in. Welcome to the new order.

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  19. @10:19 PM, you're assuming that everyone has the flexibility of being non-exempt. Almost everyone I work with is exempt, so you either get the work done or you're shown the door. (Sometimes, you get even more work done and you're still shown the door, but that's the Gannett we know and loathe.) The only way out for many people is to get out, period.

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  20. So much for the cleaner Web format:
    http://www.shreveporttimes.com/
    They've done these frame ads before, with equally poor visual results.

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  21. Gannett Digital had an all hands meeting with the new CDO yesterday

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  22. @10:19 PM, you're assuming that everyone has the flexibility of being non-exempt. Almost everyone I work with is exempt, so you either get the work done or you're shown the door. (Sometimes, you get even more work done and you're still shown the door, but that's the Gannett we know and loathe.) The only way out for many people is to get out, period.
    4/27/2011 7:58 AM

    Actually that is not true (at least at the Arizona Republic) salaried employees (exempt) while we did work more than 40 hours a week on occasion, we were STRONGLY encourage not too, in fact if you were caught by your manager or upper manager work consistently late (including more than 40hrs on a regular basis) you were told to go home. If you made the comment that you still had (work) to do, you were told to do it the next day or have someone else do it. HR would get involved with this too. Basically they were so afraid of people working more than 40 hours a week on a regular basis as an exempt employee they were so "legally conservative" that they wanted absolutely no chance of some lawsuit coming back on them in the future for over working employees and if some special project required exempt employees to work more than 40hrs during any week you had to take comp time and go home early or take entire days off. There were even some exempt employees that were strictly warned and close to a write up for consistently not following the "40 hour work week". Anyway just thought I would put in my 2 cents worth. It seems in reading this blog working at the Arizona Republic compared to the rest of Gannett is likely an entirely different world, sure it sucked and we got laid off but if anything we were always under worked as opposed to over worked.

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  23. Wow 10:18.
    Everyone at my site who is exempt works at least 10-12 hours a day... ALWAYS. No one says not to. Our staff has been laid off to eliminate the hourly and keep the exempt because they know we can get the work done no matter what. We are strongly encouraged to do whatever it takes to get the job done even if that means 14, 16 18 hour days. No one here says stop.

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  24. Wow 10:18.
    Everyone at my site who is exempt works at least 10-12 hours a day... ALWAYS. No one says not to. Our staff has been laid off to eliminate the hourly and keep the exempt because they know we can get the work done no matter what. We are strongly encouraged to do whatever it takes to get the job done even if that means 14, 16 18 hour days. No one here says stop.
    4/27/2011 10:30 AM

    Which newspaper do you work at?... like I said, the Arizona Republic seems like a completely different world than the other Gannett newspapers.

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  25. If you're working 14, 16, 18 hour days, it doesn't mean you're getting that much more done. It means you're grossly inefficient with respect to your time management. At Gannett, this characteristic is the norm, not the exception. Look at how much time is wasted in pointless meetings.

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  26. It's a shame to hear this about Larry Weismann, who was one of the few USAT sports writers worth reading and was (is?) a very entertaining, regular guest on local sports talk radio during his USAT days and into his Redskin days. Hope he lands on his feet.

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  27. "So now Facebook has disclosed it is getting into the Groupon action, where are all those nay-sayers who criticized Gannett for being too late with the chicken? Looks to me that others are following Gannett's lead on this one.
    4/26/2011 4:56 PM"

    (Sound of jaw dropping to floor.)

    'following Gannett's lead ..."????

    Let me read this sentence again:

    'following Gannett's lead ..."?????

    What planet does one live upon to construct such an utterly out-of-touch-with-reality statement? Call me crazy, but I do believe Groupon et al have had their foot in this market well before Gannett put its chicken suit on.

    And now FB is simply coming along -- heavily stocked with valuable ammo consisting of money, superior branding (as opposed to GCI) and subscriber base (as opposed to GCI) -- and is going to wipe out every, single other player. (Including the one with the chicken suit.)

    Such an observation lacking in any sense of business perspective, one in which the commenter seems to be deluding himself to the point of "if I say so, then it must be true" thinking, why, it could only mean ...

    ... Thanks for checking in, Craig. Nice to see that the vision thing is coming along there just swell.

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  28. If you're working 14, 16, 18 hour days, it doesn't mean you're getting that much more done. It means you're grossly inefficient with respect to your time management. At Gannett, this characteristic is the norm, not the exception. Look at how much time is wasted in pointless meetings.
    4/27/2011 10:54 AM

    You are so right about the meetings OMG LMAO....At the Arizona Republic we had meetings to have meetings about and retreats, etc. etc. I lost count how many I went to over the years and all I can say is that I used to so look forward to them, because it was just time out of my day (some were even an entire day long!!) It was so sweet to go to a meeting, spend time there, then back to your desk or go home and all the while basically got paid to do absolutely NOTHING.... We even had meetings where the entire management staff of the Arizona Republic was attending.. so it just showed that there was nothing to do but have a meeting.

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  29. I am exempt, and it depends on the day. If we have a need — breaking news — then I will gladly stay and work. But if it is just a normal day, then no. I leave at the end of the day, enjoy time with family and friends and try my best to have a life. The 10-, 12-, 14-plus-hour days on a regular basis will not save your job.

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  30. 5 years in, rave reviews, goals met and exceeded,60 hour work weeks, brainless meetings, and shown the door yesterday. Took on a different position 3 months ago. The postion responsibilities changed three times in three months, due to furloughs, and people leaving,etc. I was told that my 90 day probationary period was up (was not made aware that there was one in place for current employees!)and that I didnt make any sales in that time frame." Correct, I didnt. I was too busy playing catch up with the other jobs that were left vacant. I always put in an honest days work, and had that old school work ethic. Seems that Gannett would prefer to pay slackers that bilk the company for a paycheck as they spend 90% of their time on facebook. Those are the same "employees" that you can count on not showing up to work when 1 snowflake falls! Called HR yesterday. For important info, such as, unemployment,health insurance 401,etc. No return call. Tried again,no return call. Guess they are to busy trying to fill my position, or not! They will most likely pile it on the new hire. Disgruntled? No. Relieved,oh yeah! I feel my stress level decreasing already.......

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  31. The Arizona Republic must be a different world indeed. At the Asbury Park Press people were expected to work more than 8 hours a day, and often those who did - many of them pissant little ass-kissers - were rewarded with raises, etc. Reporters were encouraged to run themselves into the ground. Oh no, burned out by the schedule? Want to have a family, or keep a marriage going? Sorry, fuck you, we can easily replace you with some other stupid young kid who doesn't know shit who will work like an idiot for nothing. It was a viciously stupid environment.

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  32. 11:20 again. To add insult to injury, parting words from my manager. "Please leave laptop,blackberry,and keycard." Really? Geez, I though I could keep them as parting gifts. Surprised I was not asked to donate a pint of blood upon exiting.........oh yeah I already did that! LOL

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  33. GCI announced that, effective today, "Deal Chicken" will be renamed "Dead Chicken" -- because, after Google and Facebook get done with the market, there won't be enough chicken feed left.

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  34. Called HR yesterday. For important info, such as, unemployment,health insurance 401,etc. No return call. Tried again,no return call. Guess they are to busy trying to fill my position, or not! They will most likely pile it on the new hire. Disgruntled? No. Relieved,oh yeah! I feel my stress level decreasing already.......
    4/27/2011 11:22 AM

    Sorry to hear that you got laid off, but there are major holes in your story 1) If you were truly under a 90 probationary period you would know it with signed paper work - if not then you have a serious legal claim 2) When an employee is laid off there is a complete explanation of benefits, how things will be paid out, etc. Trust me I know all of this because I was laid off too, and as much as I hated Gannett I had no problem with paper work; the particular reason I was let go (along with many others) or anything else. I suspect that you are making your story up to emphasis a point... which is what?? I don't know??

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  35. The Arizona Republic must be a different world indeed. At the Asbury Park Press people were expected to work more than 8 hours a day, and often those who did - many of them pissant little ass-kissers - were rewarded with raises, etc. Reporters were encouraged to run themselves into the ground. Oh no, burned out by the schedule? Want to have a family, or keep a marriage going? Sorry, fuck you, we can easily replace you with some other stupid young kid who doesn't know shit who will work like an idiot for nothing. It was a viciously stupid environment.
    4/27/2011 11:26 AM

    It is a totally different world.. I always use to compare it to working for the federal government....there were so many employees for the amount of actual work that had to be done...that nobody really had or has to work that hard at all....Now certainly some would go overboard but that is something you would not be recognized for plus if you stuck out in anyway and were not part of the "pack" trust me that was a quick way out the door. Working there was a 40hr or less work week for everyone from the publisher on down, you did not want to be singled out as the person working extra hours because you would be perceived as incompetent that you couldn't get the little bit of work we had to do in a 40 hour work week or less. I used to work 8:30 to 5:30 always taking a minimum 1 hour lunch and in many cases 2 hours or longer, the actual work we had to do back at our desk at most would take 2 hours out of an 8 hour work day. We would just socialized and walk around, go down to the gym, surf the internet to get through the day. It was the best and oddest work environment I ever worked in.

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  36. Dear 12:01, why would I make up a story? Nothing was explained, no call back from HR. Luckily for you, you worked at a property that had class, and treated people with class. Not so here.

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  37. Dear 12:01, why would I make up a story? Nothing was explained, no call back from HR. Luckily for you, you worked at a property that had class, and treated people with class. Not so here.
    4/27/2011 12:28 PM

    If they things you say are true about how you were let go then you have a legal claim because EEOC laws were broken. Gannett is a piece of shit but from my experience, they are amazing at covering their ass. I suspect that you simply are one of those people that don't pay attention when you are told something and don't know what you are signing or how to ask simple questions.

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  38. Interesting insight on the Republic. I've often wondered if it was different in the behemoth Gannett papers.

    I agree with what people are saying about time management. I've always worked to get things done in the proper amount of time each day. I would multitask, whatever it took. Over time I developed a rhythm and it worked well for me. So largely the editors would leave me alone, because I would always produce, yet it was the 12-hours-a-day people who became the "rising stars" and got the raises or whatever.

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  39. Long hours have nothing -- zero -- to do with productivity. Studies have shown that those showing the most 'face time' are those who have the most difficult time with decision-making, thinking on their feet, focusing on work, etc. I don't care what your work load is. If you can't get it done in 10 hours or less on a typical day, you're doing something wrong. Unfortunately, especially in a place like Gannett, those work-challenged employees are perceived as "the real contributors of excellence" and get promoted to management, so they can even have more impact upon not getting anything of value actually accomplished.

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  40. Another new low at Cherry Hill.

    Political columnist/blogger Jane Roh starts her latest blog with:

    "This could get fug."

    (It's a column about Olympic medalist Carl Lewis being kicked off N.J. state Senate ballot.)

    Hey Ma, what does fug mean?

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  41. 11:51, instead of dead chicken, I vote for fried chicken.

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  42. Clearly the message about Deal Chicken hasn't gotten out to the ad troops. Some ad muckety mucks have been joining Facebook Deals. Seems counterproductive.

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  43. Who is Stoney LaDouche?

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  44. At the NJ Gannett papers, it's funny how many times the bedraggled reporters still left there will grumble about filing complaints with the Labor Dept. over uncompensated overtime. No one ever has the balls to do it, and it would be such an easy thing to bring down on the company's head. I've seen timesheets that were "corrected" - falsified - when reporters dared to enter the actual number of hours they worked.

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  45. Any journalist who worries about overtime should find another line of work.

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  46. Who came up with the name "Deal Chicken" anyway? I've never heard of anything so stupid. And I'm not a disgruntled Gannett employee, just on this site because I had to ask the question. It's no wonder Diane Sawyer wouldn't mention it on her show. I just don't get it.

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  47. Who came up with the name "Deal Chicken" anyway? I've never heard of anything so stupid. And I'm not a disgruntled Gannett employee, just on this site because I had to ask the question. It's no wonder Diane Sawyer wouldn't mention it on her show. I just don't get it.
    4/27/2011 2:58 PM

    Nobody gets it, it was thought up in Phoenix at the Arizona Republic, probably at a happy hour with the upper management ad managers.

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  48. 2:38 pm: The point is, it's illegal not to pay reporters for the overtime they work. They already work for (relatively) low wages and little reward. A wise old editor used to tell me Gannett is not a nonprofit.

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  49. Here's a link to Holli Towns' staff mtgat the APP

    http://www.livestream.com/app_tv

    starts at 4 p.m. edt

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  50. That livestream was hilarious.

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  51. Hilarious? Yeah, and pathetic. And so many people telling so many lies. And what a great way to spring 90-minutes-earlier deadlines on everyone.

    Can you say clusterf###?

    And who was that jerk who kept saying "Bless you my son"?

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  52. omg! Reruns!

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  53. Well Gannett meetings are always basically editors getting up and spouting bullshit at the staff for 90 minutes.

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  54. Our building is being thoroughly cleaned and painted for the first time in years. Guess who's coming to visit?

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  55. I failed to note this yesterday:

    According to Yahoo Finance, GCI stock closed at $18.67 a share a year ago yesterday -- its highest closing price since the end of the Great Recession.

    It has been drifting down ever since. Today, GCI closed at $15.41 a share. That means most of top management's stock options remain worthless.

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  56. "It has been drifting down ever since." Another lazy bit of "journalism." No doubt it's down. But drifting down ever since? Please post on your home page a 1-yr graph illustrating that this sentence is accurate.

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  57. 11:22 Most of that information is going to come from Gannett Benefits. They have 30 days to send you your COBRA letter. Be prepared for it to take 2 months for them to actually get it activated. That's how long it's taken mine. You'll get a package on your rights on your 401k. I will admit that they were quite prompt on turning that around. If you were at the company and had retirement benefits, HR will submit that to corp for processing. Do not expect anything from them for at least 8 weeks (just got mine and I was laid off Feb 25). As far as unemployment, go to your state's UI website and file promptly. It's your right to file and up to the company to contest the awarding of benefits. Your medical benefits are in effect until the end of the month before COBRA kicks in. If you need to order prescriptions, do it TODAY.

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  58. 7:32 If you don't believe what Jim says, just go to Yahoo Finance or Google Finance and you can get the computerized charts. The symbol to use for Gannett is GCI.

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  59. 6:49 PM, that means you're at an "under performing property" and visitors from corporate will be showing up at your doorstep any day now.

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  60. to 11:22
    Good luck,I too,am a former 12 years Gannett
    fool.Long hours ,no extra pay ,great reviews.
    I was let go on a Friday ,by Monday I was beginning to return to my former self.Stress free, easy going ,hard working guy.That was 2 years ago,I am now working in publishing ,less hours,much less stress,and MORE money.
    Sure there will be the dumb ass doubters here,just like the one who didn't believe you laid off.Damn what a fool! I had no exit interview whatsoever either.The same people will doubt my post here,I certainly could not have left Gannett and had SUCCESS! That could never happen,there is no life after Gannett to these Gannet or die types. 11:22 Good luck to you !!

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  61. 11:22- Thank you 8:33. There are are many haters on this site, for no reason. Guess the corporate koolaid guy just came in to refill the watercoolers! I did forget to mention that I was let go by a manager,not HR. Thanks for your support,happy that you found a better job!

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  62. Alan Mutter has a good piece on the advertising drought using Gannett data. It says what everyone already knows, but is not at all helpful in suggesting directions we now take:
    http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/

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  63. This post is for management. Do you get bonuses for keeping your staff on until the consolidations go live to the GPC and the design centers? There is such a total lack of information on timelines, and when questions are asked, management seems to get very defensive, almost belligerent. I'm wondering why they get that way unless there is a bonus in it for them to keep their employees until they are no longer needed. Is this the case?

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  64. A movement is taking hold called Cancel Gannett

    Here's a link:

    http://cancelgannett.blogspot.com

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  65. I was laid off nearly two years ago. On the second day of a 12-day vacation I had planned, a day before leaving to go out of town, I was called by HR and the exec editor. 10+ years for the company and this was the way I was treated. I agree with the stress level going down - after a few days. I loved my work and my co-workers, but hated everything about the way that company was run. Sounds like not much has changed. Good luck to all my former copy deskers. I hope you find happiness away from that place like I did.

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  66. The "bless you" guy's name is Zapzic. He does that all the time. I think he thinks it's cute. He runs the copydesk.

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  67. 11:30 - our site went through our GPC consolidation last year. None of the prepress management received bonuses of any kind, nor assurances that they would have positions when the process was finished. Several supervisors were not retained, and less senior staff with valuable skills were.

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  68. Anonymous said... westchester site it is time for corporate to showcase tony simmons as new president and pubilher are G.M OF SITE

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  69. If anyone wants to entertain themselves with asking questions to Cincinnati's new Editor, Carla Washburn, you can "chat live" with her from 12-12:30 today. http://tinyurl.com/fucarla

    captcha phrase: deride (LOL!!)

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  70. Down to my final 4 workdays in the belly of the beast....

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