Sure signs your company's f'ed

The newspaper has a wife, and that woman's owner walked out with the entire staff?

WTF?

 

Well, if I had a dollar...

 

Its name is Gannett.

 

Scoreboard

 

You file freelance requests for an entire month that amounts to 210 bucks. And get denied.

 

Speaking from experience, this is true.

 

There are more closed door meetings at your shop than City Hall.

 

28 (or whatever): Management announces another round of buyouts but can't get even one person to sign up. Why? Not because of the horrible job market across the board but because the last time it did buyouts, it filed for bankruptcy before the severance checks cashed and classified those newly departed staffers as "unsecured creditors." So they gave up their jobs and didn't get their buyouts after all.

 

The regional HR guy starts spending more and more time at your office.

 

sound like ingrates to me.

 

In addition to memo reminding reporters to use both sides of their notebook paper - staffers are asked to chip in for "goodbye cakes."

 

29. Supply closet locked at 5 p.m. everyday to prevent people from, God forbid, getting a pen or notepad without being in plain view of management.

Shit.

You.

Not.