Jim Hopkins' truth-telling website about Gannett Co., Inc. says that employees should get ready to get an extra week of vacation -- without pay.
And there also could be a combination of more layoffs and/or salary reductions in February as the newspaper giant shows its dedication to its first profits of the year and not the First Amendment.
With the extra week off, those employees who want to keep their jobs will simply work through the vacation week without pay, Hopkins writes. That's sweatshop harsh.
These events will affect Gannett's Tennessean newspaper in Nashville, where employee morale is reported at rock bottom. Now with the Titans losing yesterday, The Tennessean can expect no advertising benefit from a hoped-march to the Super Bowl through Feb. 1. So the newspaper will have to make up for this loss of profits somehow. That means cheating you out of more product and needed information.
If you still are subscribing to The Tennessean, just like staying in the stock market, then you deserve what you are going to get.
I feel bad for my colleagues still there. But a lot of us have been set on the side of the road by The Tennessean when it comes to our lives, diseases, families and careers. We're making do in our new lives. So sympathy only goes so far.
Ultimately, whether you are a Gannett employee, subscriber or advertiser, it's time to speak up, take care of yourself and make a statement that wrong should not be supported one day longer.
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It's against the law to work without pay. I'm sure Gannett isn't dumb enough to put itself in trouble like that.
"I feel bad for my colleagues still there. But a lot of us have been set on the side of the road by The Tennessean when it comes to our lives, diseases, families and careers. We're making do in our new lives. So sympathy only goes so far."
That's a tad harsh, Tim. I'm going to have to call you out on that.
I like your blog and it does remind me of the old days (can you say 10+ years is old?) on both floors of 1100 Broadway. I read your pieces and they remind me of some really great times...
...and some not so great ones such as walking into the "Banner Boy" statue, getting stuck on the newsroom elevator scads of times, having to go to the voluntary/mandatory rah-rah marketing pep rallies...
But it's statements such as above that make me want to shake you silly sometimes.
Tim, you are now doing some of the best work of your life. The majority of your blog pieces rock. You are producing far more creative commentary than ever would have been allowed at 1100 Broadway. No one is yelling at you, no one is pressuring you to change your opinion for the sake of marketing or retaining subscribers. You are now feisty, passionate and hungry.
You got sick and the s.o.b.'s took the opportunity to have you canned. End of story.
Enough whining. I look at your blog and see a man who has been steamrolled but hasn't quit.
Keep it up.
I'll do the same.
Al
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