tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post5417060194736502729..comments2023-11-05T06:26:51.316-05:00Comments on Gannett Blog: Mail | 'None of these guys had to watch employees box up years of their lives as they were sobbing'Jim Hopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712746705871119746noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-84513905351612344672011-03-29T12:06:31.531-04:002011-03-29T12:06:31.531-04:00Proletariat (lower social class, usually the worki...Proletariat (lower social class, usually the working class)??? A visit from the "Entitlement" Department. How nice - how does it feel to have absolutely no idea on how to safe the sinking Titanic and still getting paid big bucks for doing absolutely nothing???? <br /><br />The palms of the "feeble" were excoriated by the hard labor of shoveling more money into the pockets of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-13902817733087012612011-03-29T00:59:09.912-04:002011-03-29T00:59:09.912-04:00Oh the crying, whining, belly aching of the prolet...Oh the crying, whining, belly aching of the proletariat. Is this a Dickens novel? Are you suffocating, choking to death from coal dust toxicity?--or are you merely poisoning your colleagues with your vitriole? Why is it that the feeble never employ their spare time on these imaginative, innovative, and entrepreneurial schemes that they excoriate others for lacking? <br /><br />Give us your Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-65305394067676245932011-03-27T21:31:21.857-04:002011-03-27T21:31:21.857-04:00Martore, Dubow & Co. bleed from greed, and no ...Martore, Dubow & Co. bleed from greed, and no former employee should ever expect to get an ounce of sympathy or empathy from them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-34140998882719230252011-03-27T16:02:46.256-04:002011-03-27T16:02:46.256-04:00anonymous said... westchester site... as of 3-25-1...anonymous said... westchester site... as of 3-25-11 364 employees and of 3-27-11 264 left. between february and march 100employees letgo. running out people and cutcost plans. cloure of building is certain by end of dec 31 2011 stick and pin in it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-47559560716026120382011-03-27T15:31:06.707-04:002011-03-27T15:31:06.707-04:00ANONYMOUS SAID...GANNETT TOP BRASS NEED AND CLASS ...ANONYMOUS SAID...GANNETT TOP BRASS NEED AND CLASS ON SENSITIVELY TREATMENT. THEY ARE COLD AS ICE AND HEARTLESS.THEY ARE LAYOFFS AND UNPAID FURLOUGHS. AND THEY WERE PEOPLE THAT WAS LOYAL TO GCI WHO LIFE WAS DESTROY. FOR THE LOVE OF GREED AND POWER. IT IS ABOMINABLE AND I SAY WOE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-91954357985287703362011-03-27T13:35:24.302-04:002011-03-27T13:35:24.302-04:00I can't imagine anyone going to work these day...I can't imagine anyone going to work these day for Gannett. Anyone graduating from college or grad school will give Gannett a wide berth if they know what's good for their careers.<br /><br />Beware of want ads regarding Gannett jobs. The come with decreasing income, minimal job satisfaction if you happen to be a reporter/editor or business person, and the real possibility that your job Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-45720123281263191752011-03-27T12:29:20.222-04:002011-03-27T12:29:20.222-04:00The sad part of this is how a once Great company i...The sad part of this is how a once Great company is suffering the death of a thousand cuts. The product, ie: content, is being decimated and even if you have an opportunity as a reporter to "scoop" the competition there are so many hurdles before that story sees print or website, such as the lack of bodies on the copy desk, the pressure to churn out several papers from the same hub, Telling it like it Isnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-54185503589886955782011-03-27T11:07:10.198-04:002011-03-27T11:07:10.198-04:00"It is not a factory-like operation, where an..."It is not a factory-like operation, where anyone off the street can step in and move widgets down a line."<br /><br />But, 10:36 am, that's exactly what GMC is trying to make the company. They apparently do not see the activities of their properties as anything creative in any way, shape, or form.<br />EVERYTHING can be routinized, mechanized, and consolidated. <br />Ultimately, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-51849148937400026252011-03-27T10:36:20.154-04:002011-03-27T10:36:20.154-04:00As an outsider, I find it hard to believe that the...As an outsider, I find it hard to believe that the GCI board allows its managers to treat its employees so poorly. That in itself suggests incompetence at the top. <br />Employees are a company's most valuable commodity, especially when a company's quality depends upon intelligent, innovative, creative work at all levels. Gannett's success depends upon how well its employees do their Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-15781136253669658362011-03-27T09:38:37.568-04:002011-03-27T09:38:37.568-04:006:41a...I agree. Wayne is treated poorly by these...6:41a...I agree. Wayne is treated poorly by these arrogant white executives! Wayne cleans their cars, gets them registered, gets groceries, changes the oil, drives them to and from the airport, to and from their homes, to the office, to restaurants. He does this all day and gets paid minimum wage.<br /><br />How do you feel about that Gracia?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-5113837647848978852011-03-27T06:41:46.050-04:002011-03-27T06:41:46.050-04:00Someone should investigate how the Gannett GMC tre...Someone should investigate how the Gannett GMC treats Wayne Rowlett, their African American driver. Wayne is a good guy, but they treat him like crap! Maybe back in the 50's in the South you could get away with that, but not know.<br /><br />Wayne is a nice man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-89752064394297961122011-03-27T06:09:21.895-04:002011-03-27T06:09:21.895-04:00That should have read "I am so very much hopi...That should have read "I am so very much hoping that someone, perhaps a graphic designer somewhere, will draw up a "check" and send it to Jim to Google Documents."<br /><br />Sorry for the garble!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-61973164133208971802011-03-27T06:06:04.249-04:002011-03-27T06:06:04.249-04:00This post brilliantly sums up the insanity of thes...This post brilliantly sums up the insanity of these bonuses. <br /><br />I am so very much hoping someone that a graphic designer somewhere will draw up a "check" and send it to Jim to Google Documents. Then from that day forward, if one of us gets terminated or forced into furlough, we print out a check, fill in the amount of either a year's salary (for the fired) or a week's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-8098828706805972192011-03-27T00:24:00.293-04:002011-03-27T00:24:00.293-04:00The facts...so true, make me sick. How can they sl...The facts...so true, make me sick. How can they sleep? I watched people go into survial mode and turn on their "friends". All we were missing was Marlin Perkins from Wild Kingdom narrating... "watch as the lion rip the flesh from the ambushed Impala, his herd narrowly escaping don't even look back, running to safety". I left with nothing more than a form letter "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-89252614225178174862011-03-26T23:08:21.625-04:002011-03-26T23:08:21.625-04:00I'm not sure if 10:20 was exaggerating to make...I'm not sure if 10:20 was exaggerating to make a point, but I was at two Gannett sites with similar stories, both involving newsprint. At one site, the publisher had the production director cut up blank waste and reminants into paper-towel sized scraps, which he then ordered used instead of what was in place in the restrooms. At another, the publisher had the PD cut up blank waste and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-40975040007041703422011-03-26T22:25:38.276-04:002011-03-26T22:25:38.276-04:00G A N N E T T....Where greed counts.G A N N E T T....Where greed counts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-56440296597822329072011-03-26T22:20:39.346-04:002011-03-26T22:20:39.346-04:00I work for another media company and follow this b...I work for another media company and follow this blog to remind myself how much worse things could be. Top of the shit heap, as they say.<br />Thanks to GCI for being so bad it lifts the spirits and images of others. GCI has become an almost comical maze of incongruities. Make that black humor. <br />From reading this blog, it would seem that most Gannett employees toil in depressing workplaces Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com