More CNHI furloughs

The fact that such increases are resulting in management decisions to force furloughs to make up for THEIR cut of the higher insurance premiums is yet another reason that upper management, publishers and other high level executives responsible for this failed leadership and profit margin to resign immediately.

The hypocrisy of this paradigm is sickening.

 

Extremely well put.

 

Seriously. If front line people performed like these people, would they still have jobs? Especially with hard-working ones were let go in your cuts?

 

Both times I've been furloughed only the newsroom people -- editors, reporters and photographers -- were furloughed. Not the higher-ups and not the advertising people. But the paper wasn't struggling financially because of poor reporting or poor photography so why were we the ones getting screwed? It was struggling financially because the higher-ups didn't know what the hell they were doing and the ad department couldn't sell an ad to save their life. Funny how these things work. I guess the newsroom people were just the lowly peasants.

I know advertising rakes in considerable more money than subscriptions, but I've always thought about it this way in terms of value:

For one week, publish the paper with all ads and no articles. See how many you sell.

The next week, run it with all articles and no ads. Again, see how many you sell.

Now who do you think is more important?

 

Same as now: The ones who aren't easily replaced.

 

Here's the problem with walking out:

If a newsroom did that, they could all be fired and easily replaced, potentially with hungrier and more talented employees.

Way too many writers and editors. Not enough positions.

Also, the number of chains doing furloughs has gone down, so I don't know if I buy the CNHI publisher's acceptance of this.