Layoffs Coming to the Washington Times

But execs, as a rule, get canned far less than the rank and file when it comes time to "right-size." While they issue meaningless memos saying that "we will get through this" and "this was difficult for the company," execs are generally pocketing their huge salaries and nursing drinks with umbrellas in them.

 

Well, yeah, there are fewer of them and they are of a higher "rank."

Kinda like why more enlisted men get killed in combat than officers.

 

that is a disgusting comparison. Totally disgusting.

 

So, after sending out a memo mid-week confirming that layoffs are coming, the Washington Times management is going to let the staff twist in the wind over the weekend?

How cruel.

 

Here it comes ...

FishbowlDC ‏@FishbowlDC
Panic has set in at The Washington Times. Security beefed up. Management watching over reporters' calls and emails. Layoffs coming....

 

Careful, TWT staffers. Big Brother is watching ...

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/the-washington-times-security-surveillance-layoffs_b91473#more-91473

 

My thoughts and prayers for everyone at the Times...

Hang in there...

 

Bad enough that people have to worry about losing their job, but it's just mean-spirited that management is creating such a culture of fear.

Quit worrying about what your employees are doing, and worry about making the firing process as painless as possible.

 

The Gestapo is alive and well and living in Washington, D.C. ...

If increased security wasn’t indication enough, sources say TWT management has ramped up its surveillance of employees — checking phone logs, monitoring people’s emails and tracking forwarded emails to try to plug leaks. “Everyone is texting because they are afraid to use email,” an employee told FishbowlDC. “It’s complete panic mode. Everyone is trying to stay out of the system. You don’t know when it’s going happen or who it’s going to happen to.”

The aforementioned former editor above also found his office in slight disarray on numerous occasions. Papers would be moved around. Drawers opened. “Emails that I was sure I had disappeared from my email box,” the former editor said. “Seemed like people were in there looking for something. It’s that kind of a paranoid place. Disagreement was seen as a sign of disloyalty.”

Some journalists have been warned against forwarding emails, including from their TWT accounts to private email addresses as email forwards are being tracked to hunt down leakers.

 

Considering the loon who owns it and the loons whose readership it courts, the behavior should not be surprising in the least.

 

This behavior is not unique to the Washington Times.

 

Aren't The Times and The Washington Examiner pretty much chasing the same audience? I can't imagine - on the strictly citywide level - there's much appetite for two similiar papers?