The gift that keeps on giving...

[Colton]

Yup, fellow CNHIers, 'tis that time of year again (then again, when isn't it?) -- another five EFF days for the third quarter.

Since I've been told our site is being monitored by Big Bro, I'll stop there.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Which proves the idiocy of the corporate idiots once again.

Your business is failing, your employees are upset because they can't get paid for a full year. Instead of worrying about generating revenue to keep your business afloat, these assholes have nothing better to do than to monitor a web site because heaven forbid, their employees might be just a little upset at them for their incompetence.

 

[Colton]

Baron: I could not agree more. The only reason I know for a fact we're being watched is because my boss was kind enough to let me know and to be careful because, apparently, those above him on the totem poll have discerned my identity.

At this point, though, I pretty much don't give a rat's ass.

 

[Tarheel316]

That sucks Colton. What a bunch of crap.

 

[JamesCimburek]

That kind of stuff is one of the reasons I am glad we are a privately-owned local paper. Yes, we don't have all the big-chain resources, but I'm not being told to take weeks off without pay in order to pay some fat cat's seven-figure bonus.

 

[Kato]

Yup, fellow CNHIers, 'tis that time of year again (then again, when isn't it?) -- another four EFF days for the third quarter.

Since I've been told our site is being monitored by Big Bro, I'll stop there.

Just four days for you guys this quarter? We have five here (again).

 

[Kato]

I put this on another thread, but the latest round of furloughs puts us at 65 days since the second quarter of 2009:

2009
1Q 0
2Q 5
3Q 5
4Q 1 (Merry Christmas!)

2010
1Q 4
2Q 5
3Q 5
4Q 5

2011
1Q 5
2Q 5
3Q 5
4Q 5

2012
1Q 5
2Q 5
3Q 5
4Q ?

 

[Drip]

Colton my heart goes out to you and I STRONGLY suggest you stop posting along here while at work. We don't need you on the unemployment line too.

 

[Colton]

Yup, fellow CNHIers, 'tis that time of year again (then again, when isn't it?) -- another four EFF days for the third quarter.

Since I've been told our site is being monitored by Big Bro, I'll stop there.

Just four days for you guys this quarter? We have five here (again).

Kato: Thanks for the edit. Fixed. Danger of posting just before hitting the sack.

 

[Colton]

Colton my heart goes out to you and I STRONGLY suggest you stop posting along here while at work. We don't need you on the unemployment line too.

Drip: I don't post from work. Thanks for the considerate words, though.

 

[lone star scribe]

FYI, Colton, the NLRB is taking a very dim view of employers' sanctions against social media posts by employees.

Here's the link:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/176957/why-your-news-organizations-social-media-policy-may-be-illegal/

 

[slappy4428]

Baron: I could not agree more. The only reason I know for a fact we're being watched is because my boss was kind enough to let me know and to be careful because, apparently, those above him on the totem poll have discerned my identity.

At this point, though, I pretty much don't give a rat's ass.

Or, you could try...

 

[slappy4428]

FYI, Colton, the NLRB is taking a very dim view of employers' sanctions against social media posts by employees.

Here's the link:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/176957/why-your-news-organizations-social-media-policy-may-be-illegal/

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! CNHI worried about the NLRB?

 

[Kato]

Any other CNHIers a little nervous about how closely the company might be monitoring what else is happening with newspapers in Alabama right now?

 

[Colton]

Kato: Most definitely, especially since it's in their own relative back yard. Yikes...

 

[slotman1]

@james_cimburek: fat-cat bonuses would be galling enough, but if you dig into the Retirement Systems of Alabama, one of cnhi's major, if not largest investors, you'll find we're being bled quarterly to feed one of the most generous public employee pension systems in the country. Pretty much any public worker in the state has a 25-and-out option: full benefits after 25 years, regardless of age. Kinda pisses off those of us with 30+ years in newspapers who are looking at cnhi's ****ty 401k.
. And as far as big chain resources, you were joking' right? Remember we're talking cnhi here.

 

[Mark2010]

Given up on CNHI. Worked for one of the properties for a little while and came to the realization the problems were beyond my ability to solve, which is actually saying a great deal considering I have fixed things at just about every place I worked prior to that time.

I REALLY hate to say this..... but the best advice I can give to the folks working there is simply get out at the first opportunity possible. They will run you into the ground. Get a few clips if you really need them and then get out of dodge. This outfit is not going to do anything to help you, personally or professionally.

 

[Colton]

For purely informational purposes:

CNHI was founded in 1997 with a $110 million check from the Retirement System of Alabama, a pension fund for that state's public employees.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

For purely informational purposes:

CNHI was founded in 1997 with a $110 million check from the Retirement System of Alabama, a pension fund for that state's public employees.

The American free enterprise system at work.

Yep, with taxpayer dollars.

 

[murphyc]

Did anyone think this thread would be about "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation?" ;D