I guess the price increases and double payments haven't been enough.
"Boston Globe offers buyouts, lays off several" by Beth Healy | Globe Staff, July 24, 2012
The Boston Globe on Monday offered buyouts to 43 editorial and advertising employees and laid off about 10 people.
So much for that rapidly improving economy that is doing better than all other states the Globe is always telling me about.
Btw, those are 10 unique individual lives that have just been impacted.
The Globe notified 23 people in advertising and 20 in the newsroom they were eligible for a buyout. The packages are voluntary. Monday’s layoffs did not affect reporters or editors.
“The Globe still has by far the largest newsroom in New England, and it continues to deliver groundbreaking, award-winning journalism across all media platforms,” wrote Globe publisher Christopher M. Mayer in a memo to staff. “That said, these continue to be challenging times for our industry and our business. We face rapid change in how readers get their information and how advertisers communicate their messages. That requires us to make tough choices along the way about how to allocate our resources.”
The self-aggrandizing self-adulation is self-deluding. As for the change, that is WHY YOU and I are HERE, dear readers!
The company does not expect everyone to accept the buyouts, which were offered to both union and nonunion employees. The company declined to say how much money it hopes to save with the job reductions. The Globe, which is owned by The New York Times Co., has 1,881 employees.
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Times really screwed you guys like a pedophile priest, Globe?
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(Blog editor simply snorts and sighs. They truly are hopeless)
The Worcester Telegram & Gazette, which also is owned by the Times Co., said it laid off one employee Monday and offered buyouts to five to 10 employees in the news, advertising, and human resources departments, according to a story posted on T&G’s website.
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Yeah, NOBODY likes a LIAR!!
I'll be laying off posting for much of this week and next, dear and beloved readers, as I have extended work hours due to sales and vacations. Much rather be here than there, but this doesn't pay anything.
May God Bless you all.
