tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post165227132752329900..comments2023-11-05T06:26:51.316-05:00Comments on Gannett Blog: Reno | Pub gets community service, fine for DUIJim Hopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712746705871119746noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-79128131450904913052011-01-17T21:57:08.831-05:002011-01-17T21:57:08.831-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-53225758026843289922011-01-16T09:48:28.511-05:002011-01-16T09:48:28.511-05:009:46 sounds like you're not a fan. Sorry to di...9:46 sounds like you're not a fan. Sorry to disagree but Ted is a great guy who made a mistake. The real clowns are guys like you who enjoy piling on when times are tough. If that makes me a Yes man at least I don't ride to work in your circus car!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-29536030540559322642011-01-15T20:57:29.729-05:002011-01-15T20:57:29.729-05:009:46 sounds like one of his "yes men" he...9:46 sounds like one of his "yes men" he has surrounded himself with. The paper is now garbage because of this guy. When the publisher he replaced was there, this paper was respected in the community. He was involved in many organizations outside the paper. Power is clown and believe me what comes around goes around.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-27976135328194375952011-01-15T11:13:45.206-05:002011-01-15T11:13:45.206-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-4174932345411076632011-01-14T19:19:33.346-05:002011-01-14T19:19:33.346-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-65600079461753101242011-01-14T19:14:12.577-05:002011-01-14T19:14:12.577-05:006:40 if you look at an earlier post I said that. I...6:40 if you look at an earlier post I said that. If you are an outside sales rep and they take away your license for six months what is any company suppose to do?If your upset he didn't lose his license that's a different discussion. Must non injury, one vehicle,first time DUIs don't result In the driver losing their license. The hater is still a hater.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-56876099282065469242011-01-14T18:40:55.785-05:002011-01-14T18:40:55.785-05:005:49- YOU ARE WRONG. Fact check the HR handbook. ...5:49- YOU ARE WRONG. Fact check the HR handbook. A DUI is cause for immediate termination if your position requires a license. Like say.... if you are an outside sales representitve. I know for a FACT that this is true. I have SEEN it with my own eyes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-2650293003844423242011-01-14T10:49:56.036-05:002011-01-14T10:49:56.036-05:00Anon 5:49 –Please note 7:28’s comment, they said N...Anon 5:49 –Please note 7:28’s comment, they said NO ONE’s ever been fired for a non-injury DUI, hence, my reply – not to inflame, but to inform.<br /><br />One of the hardest terminations of my career involved firing a widely liked, hard-working professional who for obvious reasons I won’t even come close to naming. Their punishment prevented them from driving (poor legal representation) and as Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-9916573339941874622011-01-14T05:49:25.622-05:002011-01-14T05:49:25.622-05:00Nice retort 11:03 but once again you are wring. Yo...Nice retort 11:03 but once again you are wring. You are simply trying to inflame the readers with your comment. Sure there may have been an occasion when someone was fired but the vast majority of folks that were involved in non injury, first time DUIs did not lose their job. You are simply making up facts to prove your us vs them point. You are a hater, we get that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-89124499371536878412011-01-13T11:03:50.678-05:002011-01-13T11:03:50.678-05:00Anon 7:28 AM – Rest assured, employees have been t...Anon 7:28 AM – Rest assured, employees have been terminated for DUI related incidents, including even some caught on personal time in their own vehicles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-4913179784743754332011-01-13T10:53:55.240-05:002011-01-13T10:53:55.240-05:00Harsh? All I know is that when I worked at one of ...Harsh? All I know is that when I worked at one of the miserable Ohio Gannett papers, had I been arrested for DUI I would have been fired the next day by my little despot dictator sniveling publisher. <br /><br />There has and always will be a double standard for conduct. Gannett's "ethics" policies is a great example of this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-85253093452315444932011-01-13T10:21:41.326-05:002011-01-13T10:21:41.326-05:00You guys are harsh. People make stupid mistakes al...You guys are harsh. People make stupid mistakes all the time. It sounds like he had a great lawyer or three. That's the American way. If you don't like it then move. I know I'd pony up for the best lawyer if I were him.<br /><br />Some of you think he should get the "standard" harsh punishment of other first-timers, but then you want him to lose his job because of his Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-70703309032876209452011-01-13T08:33:50.790-05:002011-01-13T08:33:50.790-05:00Come to Wisconsin! First offense DUI isn't eve...Come to Wisconsin! First offense DUI isn't even a crime. <br /><br />Max $665, no jail time, no community service. 6-9 mo. suspension but you get an occupational license immediately.<br /><br /><br />http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/safety/docs/owi-penchrt.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-65912382850794684182011-01-13T07:54:13.112-05:002011-01-13T07:54:13.112-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-22005060876371588302011-01-13T07:32:56.772-05:002011-01-13T07:32:56.772-05:00I am with 7:38. Do you people really hate all thin...I am with 7:38. Do you people really hate all things Gannett that you wish I'll will on another person? I mean when you are not trying to vent on the blog and you are sitting at home to you wish bad things on people? Do you really want to be that person?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-76111626468238391402011-01-13T07:28:34.767-05:002011-01-13T07:28:34.767-05:00Name an example where someone in a non injury DUI ...Name an example where someone in a non injury DUI got fired. You can't. Let the vile, vindictive, dribble continue. Jim your advertisers must live thus demographic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-53076329572232920482011-01-13T07:24:50.690-05:002011-01-13T07:24:50.690-05:00Jeez, what company does 9:29 work for? Anyone on t...Jeez, what company does 9:29 work for? Anyone on the lower rungs would be out on his ass after something like this. Some lush in charge of a major GCI property? Get real.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-76315150894553417082011-01-13T07:10:31.056-05:002011-01-13T07:10:31.056-05:009:29- Are you serious? Mean Spirited? There is a...9:29- Are you serious? Mean Spirited? There is absolutely no way this guy deserves to keep his job. At the very least he should have done the honorable thing and fell on his sword. Since he obviously doesn't have the balls the Palace should have pushed him on it. For the sake of the organizations credibilty (what's left).<br /><br />He clearly violated the trust of the community. IfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-56885673205882385342011-01-12T21:29:03.564-05:002011-01-12T21:29:03.564-05:00What a bunch if vitriolic mean spirited individual...What a bunch if vitriolic mean spirited individuals. I've never seen vultures puck at the bones like you choose to do. I hope you never make a bad mistake abs have the wolves tear you apart. I sleep great at night I am not sure you boots do as well. Mo I'm not Craig, Gracia or a troll. I am a human being that knows evil when he sees it. Shame on you all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-20790596484328831052011-01-12T18:57:17.451-05:002011-01-12T18:57:17.451-05:00I should do some drinking and driving in Nevada......I should do some drinking and driving in Nevada... here in NY, you can't walk away from a DUI without at least $5,000 in fines and penalties.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-71263984069186297592011-01-12T16:01:00.798-05:002011-01-12T16:01:00.798-05:00And I bet there's no story coming soon about l...And I bet there's no story coming soon about light sentences. If Gannett had anything on the ball anymore, that's what they'd do -- and Power would feel free to suggest it: an examination of Class Difference (the guy's Right THERE in it!) in first-time DUI sentencing. Oh, wait. Gannett is about Gannettization, sports scores and drunk chicks in bars I never go to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-29350408912264562502011-01-12T12:40:38.355-05:002011-01-12T12:40:38.355-05:00Yes.Yes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-78125414064962948382011-01-12T07:52:30.436-05:002011-01-12T07:52:30.436-05:00Is this guy still the Publisher?Is this guy still the Publisher?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-29903115097423428062011-01-11T23:36:17.445-05:002011-01-11T23:36:17.445-05:00What, no loss of driving privileges? If that’s the...What, no loss of driving privileges? If that’s the case, then the punishment is hardly befitting of the offense he admits. <br /><br />Were this type of leniency (25 hours of community service and the cost of a good case of Cabernet from Napa valley) afforded to like public figures in Gannett’s other markets, those papers would likely write editorials calling for more; as would MADD and other Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-66146965806104905782011-01-11T23:13:36.008-05:002011-01-11T23:13:36.008-05:00RENO used to be the West Coast hub with Sue. The l...RENO used to be the West Coast hub with Sue. The leading property with tech and innovation. The site, as in not WWW, won a lot of recognition thanks to people in the trenches... and Sue, she was serious. Sue was completely open. I once debated her in a coffee shop we both frequented; my job was never in question. Can one imagine any publisher now going to the same coffee shop?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com