Ridin' That New Dehli Freight Train

Firing workers, to serve advertisers better.

You just have to love the newspaper business these days.

http://www.sacbee.com/103/story/546862.html

 

Yeah, see how much the advertisers like having random words misspelled in their ads, or sentence structure that doesn't quite make sense.

 

Those New Delhi dollars will spend really well with Sacramento merchants... hope ad sales plummet. But that would lead to more layoffs and more outsourcing....

 

Had a buddy who works for Lee Enterprises who was laid off on Thursday, along with 10 others.

Merry Effing Christmas.

 

American business can freaking blow me.

 

Slappy gets it.

They'll wonder where all the f-----g customers went, soon enough.

Hell . . . they're already wondering, now.

Wait.

 

I would say "unbelievable," but, sadly, nothing surprises me anymore.

 

Have you ever been to those newsrooms. Smells like tumeric all over.
I am figuring no loss to the fired workers.

 

This comment struck me the most:

"The late Eleanor McClatchy, in a casual noontime discussion with Bee employees at the company cafeteria, said: 'My father told me our business isn't to make money, it's to make a great newspaper.' I was there and never forgot.

"Long live the McClatchys."

Wow. Just... wow.

 

Figuratively or literally, because I know you feel George Bush should do the same, and Hillary Clinton too, and Fox... and if St. Rudy of the Towers has to be there too -- well, there just isnt enough to go around...

 

Almost everything involved in the process is long and distinguished, slap.

 

Here's a thought. Where I am now working, in a strange part of the information business, they had to shitcan all the foreign outsourced work and hire Americans, for quality reasons. That's why I have a job there. And believe me, the company president is as aggressive a profit-seeking empire builder as there is going.
But he has this weird notion that you attract more customers with a better product, and that's how you make money.
Obviously, he would not fit in the newspaper business.