Former Herald employee paid to blog his own layoff

[Diabeetus]

Classy times.

The Miami Herald just laid copy editor Brayden Simms off. Amazingly, he also wrote a blog for them about saving money in this terrible economy. He wrote a depressing column about how they tricked him into taking a full-time job and then outsourced it to India. Now he is blogging—for the Herald!—about meeting with his financial planner to discuss how to survive without an income. This is just sick. Jesus, they're making him dig his own grave after his execution. Please forward this to every journalism student you know.

http://gawker.com/tag/morbid/?i=5018951&t=journo-paid-to-blog-own-layoff

 

[slappy4428]

I'd like to say this is amazing, but nothing surprises me anymore... we've, excuse me... they;'ve reached a new low...

 

[Beaker]

Wow...

 

[Stone Cane]

wtf

we're through the mother****ing looking glass now

 

[mediaguy]

It's a snuff blog. All the rage.

 

[BrianGriffin]

This is the modern version of the old desker who writes his own obit in anticipation (happened at my shop)...

 

[Screwball]

Check out this comment on his blog ...

"As your mom I say it's ok to panic, but get over it quick.Your adrenalin will be pumping, your heartbeat a little faster,then you can take a look around and figure out what you can sell on Carl's list , donate, or throw! It's easier to think when you can see yourself being about to change. And change will surely come, so get used to it. I have worked for corporations for ten years, and as soon as you figure out what they want, they change the rules. It has a type of stability that I have needed, but the tentative kind that makes you wonder what will happen next. It's organized chaos, like your bedroom. May be time to clean that room up!"

 

[Mizzougrad96]

What a great idea by management...

 

[Write-brained]

Does it say somewhere it was management's idea? How do you know it wasn't his idea?

 

[Ace]

What advantage is it for a company to "trick" someone into taking a full-time job then outsourcing it?

Just the sheer joy of it?

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

What advantage is it for a company to "trick" someone into taking a full-time job then outsourcing it?

Just the sheer joy of it?

Ask any tech company.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Why is he doing this to himself?

He should have refused to do this blog and walked out the door.

 

[dixiehack]

That damn Carl's list is putting everyone out of business.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Oops.

 

[Write-brained]

Why is he doing this to himself?

He should have refused to do this blog and walked out the door.

Well, maybe he needs the money.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Nothing like being executed and having to pull the trigger...

 

[ColbyJackCoombs]

Excuse me, my softball story smells like curry and dysentery.

 

[Gomer]

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I'm bookmarking this ...

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=422eafd0-db37-474b-a5fd-f230c887371a&&Headline=US+papers%2c+Indian+copy+editors

... and every time a newbie fresh out of college asks about the best way to get into or get ahead in the modern newspaper industry, I'm posting it.

<blockquote>New Delhi, July 06, 2008
First Published: 02:10 IST(6/7/2008)
Last Updated: 13:30 IST(7/7/2008)

When the Miami Herald hired Brayden Simms as a fulltime copy editor back in March, the former freelancer assumed his new position meant new job security. He had it wrong: In mid-June, the Florida native learned that his job had been outsourced to Mindworks Global Media, a Noida-based firm that is among the companies fueling a steady migration of American journalism jobs to India.</blockquote>

Dear McClatchy: Tell me how my ass tastes.

 

[BYH]

I bet you the execs say to buy American, too, with no apparent sense of irony.