Tag Archives: layoffs

Retained

March 30, 2010 – 6:12 am

Calling early this morning, I learned I was retained. I’m relieved to have a job, of course, but I am absolutely crushed that so many talented people had to go. It’s going to be hard.
We reapply for our jobs tomorrow (note to self: bring two forms of ID). I’m hoping there are no more [...]

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Waiting

March 29, 2010 – 2:52 am

Having to wonder Thursday, Friday, Saturday and today whether we will have jobs after tomorrow is hard. At the 2 p.m. meeting last Wednesday, we were told 10 percent of our nearly 500-person staff would be gone, but in later meetings, they were told 5 percent. I guess we’ll see.
Numerous people said goodbye already, as [...]

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HarborPoint

March 24, 2010 – 3:02 am

The court case reached toward Harbor–HarborPoint that is. Yes, my old employer, owner of The Daily Commercial, will buy The Daytona Beach News-Journal for $20 million.
(Just think, 47.5 percent of the shares were once worth $129 million in 2006.)
Read all about it here: Judge approves sale of News-Journal.
All day tomorrow they’re holding meetings so [...]

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Ludicrous layoffs

May 4, 2009 – 5:04 pm

On the heels of the “classy” layoffs of three Baltimore Sun reporters and a photographer during a baseball game they were covering in Los Angeles, we have more of the same. (Correction: They were in Baltimore and perhaps trying to postpone the inevitable, but management still shouldn’t have given them the news over the phone [...]

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