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Too few take buyout offer from NYT

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by trifectarich, May 8, 2008.

  1. Joe Williams

    Joe Williams Well-Known Member

    Here is what the bean counters smell: A chance to shed a body (and salary) without cutting a big check, if they drag this out long enough.

    Then again, if Edes stays at the Globe out of spite, because they played hardball over the buyout, then the paper gets to keep a great baseball writer, doesn't cut a big check to him and doesn't have to worry about him scooping them on Red Sox stuff or taking readership with him from their Web site to Yahoo!!!

    Win-win, for the cheap, no-good bastards.
     
  2. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    Wait a minute. Edes gets an offer from Yahoo, probably at a nice increase in pay, and the Globe should give him a buyout?
    Why?
    I don't get it.
     
  3. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Only if they had previously agreed --- in writing --- to give him a buyout do I see any way he could possibly be entitled to one.

    Win-win for Edes, too.

    He either continues to work at one of the nation's premier beats . . . or he works for Yahoo.

    Just because his win may not come with an added jackpot doesn't make it in any way a loss.
     
  4. Joe Williams

    Joe Williams Well-Known Member

    I can't believe this Edes-Globe dispute requires more than a 30-minute conversation. Either the buyout plan allowed management to turn down some applications, as it saw fit, or it did not. If the plan was set up so anyone who applied got the buyout, that should be simple too.

    What possible scenario would leave it in dispute? If Globe approved Edes for a buyout and then yanked it back, that should be pretty cut-and-dried too.

    If job offer leaked out while Globe had wiggle room, that's Edes' bad luck. But as has been noted, he gets to go to a happier, probably more lucrative situation. Still seems he's in a good spot. Best to him.
     
  5. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    They probably need keep him around so they have somebody to cover the Celtics. [/cross-threading].
     
  6. And that's one of the reasons why we're in the situation we're in. It's not easy to do our job well when the reader is too ignorant to pay attention.
     
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