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Gannett announces furloughs

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by BurnsWhenIPee, Mar 30, 2020.

  1. Fredrick

    Fredrick Well-Known Member

    The boomer readers will get a paper until they die no matter what's in it. Newspapers wrote their own obits by failing to convince the younger generations it was cool to see their names and names of their contemporaries in the paper, something they could save forever. Instead papers gave up cause of the cost of newsprint and the rest is snowball history.
     
  2. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    I've told this story on here before. When I was at Gannett, I would usually get 3s and 4s for each category, with an occasional 2 in there. My SE, who was a great guy, used to give me 5s for making deadline, because I never missed deadline. One year, I got a 4 for that, and, during my review, I pointed that out to him and asked him how it got downgraded when I still had never missed a deadline. My SE, sheepishly, said he would have given that a 5, but that he wasn't allowed to give 5s.

    That told me right there that their rating system was BS.
     
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  3. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    The "3s" for phone work were classic. The mediocre raises offered were bad enough - but the falsified reviews only added to the feelings of ennui. There is a way to do reviews - focus on two or three "opportunities" for growth or improvement, and two or three ways an employee has really stood out - dangle ways the employee can "move up" to a higher position, either at the current paper or another one and what the paper will do to help that happen etc. Instead, you just feel like your manager doesn't even pay attention to your work or read the paper.
     
  4. Screwball

    Screwball Active Member

    And those newspapers cost 25 cents because almost all the costs were covered by advertising that since has vanished, but go on.
     
  5. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    I haven't missed a scheduled day of work since May 10, 1984 (broke two bones on the tennis court).

    My company says I "meet expectations" in this regard. Don't exceed them. Just meet them.
     
  6. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    In my case, with both SEs, they knew my work very well. They just were hamstrung by upper management, and admitted it so.
     
  7. FileNotFound

    FileNotFound Well-Known Member

    GCI down to 67 cents.
     
  8. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I realize middle-managers are stuck in that position. It's just a really crummy way to run a newspaper.
     
  9. PaperDoll

    PaperDoll Well-Known Member

    I think that's the way it works now, though I don't know whether those goals are taken any more seriously than the numerical grades were.

    I once got downgraded for tech skills. I got that category bumped up, and downgraded "plays nicely with others." Might as well make the review at least vaguely accurate.
     
  10. Tarheel316

    Tarheel316 Well-Known Member

    I went through the bullshit of giving 3s across the board. Then I unofficially told people I supervised how I really rated them, if nothing else but for positive reinforcement.
     
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  11. GAWalker

    GAWalker Member

    65 cents and sliding! Astonishing
     
  12. bumpy mcgee

    bumpy mcgee Well-Known Member

    As someone who is significantly (my view) under the 38K furlough threshold, learning who is and who is not above it in my office is certainly eye opening.
     
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