Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Asbury Park | Tip: ad sales staff must reapply

That's according to one of my readers, who says the Asbury Park Press advertising sales staff was told yesterday they would need to reapply for their jobs.

The paper's weekday circulation is 96,855, and Sunday is 146,323, according to the Sept. 30 ABC report.

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21 comments:

  1. Yes, it happened in Wilmington last fall. It seems SOP once site moves to World Class designation.

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  2. For a nickle I will. Cheapest way to cut cost and not lose bodies. Put me in coach!

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  3. Gannett's done this before - not just changing job responsibilities (which is fine) but then having one re-apply. Being interviewed by a manager one has reported to for the past 10 years now as if one just walked in off the street with no established history of meeting every previous challenge, well, if not degrading it is extremely unnerving. What happened at my property one might wonder? What else? The unpopular, individual thinkers didn't qualify and the clique of slackers and glad-handers kept their jobs.

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  4. Same deal for the ad reps at the Home News Tribune, Courier News and Daily Record. Major reduction in territories, restructuring how commissions will work, rumors of mandatory and significant salary cuts.

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  5. You MUST be speaking of the courier post.

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  6. This will do wonders for employee dedication and loyalty.

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  7. Management had to do the same thing a few months back which led to shifting and demotions. The place needs a serious make over. Not surprised they want new blood.

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  8. does anyone know how much corporate is paying the consultants who are heading up the "world class" program which is spreading around the country. starting in phx under Crotchfelt before she went to Indy !??

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    1. The Jerry Kackley Group, consisting of two people. and it's about $120k per site. It started in Westchester and Reno and quite frankly the approach is outdated and significantly stale.

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  9. This is standard procedure in Vinny. Has been for a couple of years.

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  10. Cincinnati

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  11. Indy same last fall. Reapply for jobs. If we did not get back into a territory since the number of territories has been reduced we were given sales assistant positions and are punching the clock now. Real motivating.

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  12. I'm curious, did everyone have to re-apply or only certain reps? This is a ridiculous question, but did years of service and semi-higher wages increase your chances of not getting "re-hired"? If you we're re-hired, did you keep the same salary and vacation?

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  13. From what I gathered across the Jersey properties it included everyone except inside digital and deal chicken - jobs you wouldn't apply for anyway.

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  14. What about Ocean County any bldgs to close any jobs being eliminated?

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  15. Since there were not enough sales rep jobs after the reorganization on the sales floor some print reps got handed digital sales jobs, some are assistants and some got inside sales. The latter two punch clocks. No favoring time employed. Even some key account reps got taken out of keys and are assistants or digital.

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  16. At our paper, they were just fired and replaced. If you aske me at our paper if they just removed the managers and replaced them, we would work just fine. No motivation, and no new ideas from management. We've been living on money grabs for the last few months. World Class sales, but not management.

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  17. Toms River building is closing and the Neptune facility is up for sale.

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  18. NJ sales to be done remotely

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  19. Today's the big day everyone. Let the madness begin.

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