Toledo gets out the blade

[Moderator1]

Sorry, bad pun.
Anyway from The Pipeline:

FYI, the Toledo Blade is planning to lay off 15.5 full-time positions tomorrow. That's about 15 % of the newsroom. All will be done by seniority, and what's most frustrating is that the Blade has hired about seven reporters this year, including one who started just three months ago. =( No buyouts were offered. They also laid off two managers last week.

 

[Drip]

Sorry, bad pun.
Anyway from The Pipeline:

FYI, the Toledo Blade is planning to lay off 15.5 full-time positions tomorrow. That's about 15 % of the newsroom. All will be done by seniority, and what's most frustrating is that the Blade has hired about seven reporters this year, including one who started just three months ago. =( No buyouts were offered. They also laid off two managers last week.

If all of this is being done WHY did they make any hires?

 

[Ace]

Sorry, bad pun.
Anyway from The Pipeline:

FYI, the Toledo Blade is planning to lay off 15.5 full-time positions tomorrow. That's about 15 % of the newsroom. All will be done by seniority, and what's most frustrating is that the Blade has hired about seven reporters this year, including one who started just three months ago. =( No buyouts were offered. They also laid off two managers last week.

If all of this is being done WHY did they make any hires?

Human Resources screwup, I reckon.

 

[Drip]

Sorry, bad pun.
Anyway from The Pipeline:

FYI, the Toledo Blade is planning to lay off 15.5 full-time positions tomorrow. That's about 15 % of the newsroom. All will be done by seniority, and what's most frustrating is that the Blade has hired about seven reporters this year, including one who started just three months ago. =( No buyouts were offered. They also laid off two managers last week.

If all of this is being done WHY did they make any hires?

Human Resources screwup, I reckon.

Bull****. No company falls like this so fast Ace, especially one that is as insolated as The Blade.

 

[Paper Dragon]

I know of at least one paper that was given permission to fill a vacant job only to be told 24 hours later that it had to freeze the position again.

It makes little sense, but I imagine it has a lot to do with the disconnect between corporate and the newsroom - especially at papers with multiple holdings. Corporate may tell you, OK here's your budget, and then forces you to cut people when dire projections come in from one of it's other properties.

 

[slappy4428]

I know one of the photogs at the Blade. She mentioned her boss had gotten cut, and that she's the lowest seniority photog... hope she survives...

 

[I Digress]

Blade is a union shop and, I think, they went to a different hiring rate a few years back.... if that's so, then the people get chopped are the folks at the top of the pay scale and the newbies, well, they're making a whole lot less on another kind of scale that will never get them to where the people leaving are at.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Sorry, bad pun.
Anyway from The Pipeline:

FYI, the Toledo Blade is planning to lay off 15.5 full-time positions tomorrow. That's about 15 % of the newsroom. All will be done by seniority, and what's most frustrating is that the Blade has hired about seven reporters this year, including one who started just three months ago. =( No buyouts were offered. They also laid off two managers last week.

If all of this is being done WHY did they make any hires?

Human Resources screwup, I reckon.

Bull****. No company falls like this so fast Ace, especially one that is as insolated as The Blade.

Dudem, you should know all about Human Resources screwups.

 

[slappy4428]

Sorry, bad pun.
Anyway from The Pipeline:

FYI, the Toledo Blade is planning to lay off 15.5 full-time positions tomorrow. That's about 15 % of the newsroom. All will be done by seniority, and what's most frustrating is that the Blade has hired about seven reporters this year, including one who started just three months ago. =( No buyouts were offered. They also laid off two managers last week.

If all of this is being done WHY did they make any hires?

Human Resources screwup, I reckon.

Bull****. No company falls like this so fast Ace, especially one that is as insolated as The Blade.

Dudem, you should know all about Human Resources screwups.

ouch

 

[Paper Dragon]

Sorry, bad pun.
Anyway from The Pipeline:

FYI, the Toledo Blade is planning to lay off 15.5 full-time positions tomorrow. That's about 15 % of the newsroom. All will be done by seniority, and what's most frustrating is that the Blade has hired about seven reporters this year, including one who started just three months ago. =( No buyouts were offered. They also laid off two managers last week.

If all of this is being done WHY did they make any hires?

Human Resources screwup, I reckon.

Bull****. No company falls like this so fast Ace, especially one that is as insolated as The Blade.

Dudem, you should know all about Human Resources screwups.

ouch

That's what she said.

 

[Drip]

Sorry, bad pun.
Anyway from The Pipeline:

FYI, the Toledo Blade is planning to lay off 15.5 full-time positions tomorrow. That's about 15 % of the newsroom. All will be done by seniority, and what's most frustrating is that the Blade has hired about seven reporters this year, including one who started just three months ago. =( No buyouts were offered. They also laid off two managers last week.

If all of this is being done WHY did they make any hires?

Human Resources screwup, I reckon.

Bull****. No company falls like this so fast Ace, especially one that is as insolated as The Blade.

Dudem, you should know all about Human Resources screwups.

Dudem, I have no idea what you are talking about unless you are referring to your working in Toledo.

 

[Paper Dragon]

Sorry, bad pun.
Anyway from The Pipeline:

FYI, the Toledo Blade is planning to lay off 15.5 full-time positions tomorrow. That's about 15 % of the newsroom. All will be done by seniority, and what's most frustrating is that the Blade has hired about seven reporters this year, including one who started just three months ago. =( No buyouts were offered. They also laid off two managers last week.

If all of this is being done WHY did they make any hires?

Human Resources screwup, I reckon.

Bull****. No company falls like this so fast Ace, especially one that is as insolated as The Blade.

Dudem, you should know all about Human Resources screwups.

Dudem, I have no idea what you are talking about unless you are referring to your working in Toledo.

"I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lying I's"

 

[Drip]

Sorry, bad pun.
Anyway from The Pipeline:

FYI, the Toledo Blade is planning to lay off 15.5 full-time positions tomorrow. That's about 15 % of the newsroom. All will be done by seniority, and what's most frustrating is that the Blade has hired about seven reporters this year, including one who started just three months ago. =( No buyouts were offered. They also laid off two managers last week.

If all of this is being done WHY did they make any hires?

Human Resources screwup, I reckon.

Bull****. No company falls like this so fast Ace, especially one that is as insolated as The Blade.

Dudem, you should know all about Human Resources screwups.

Dudem, I have no idea what you are talking about unless you are referring to your working in Toledo.

"I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lying I's"

Lying about Toledo?

 

[playthrough]

Sigh. Not again. Posts on this thread should be about TOLEDO. That is all.

 

[CitizenTino]

Sorry, bad pun.
Anyway from The Pipeline:

FYI, the Toledo Blade is planning to lay off 15.5 full-time positions tomorrow. That's about 15 % of the newsroom. All will be done by seniority, and what's most frustrating is that the Blade has hired about seven reporters this year, including one who started just three months ago. =( No buyouts were offered. They also laid off two managers last week.

If all of this is being done WHY did they make any hires?

Human Resources screwup, I reckon.

Bull****. No company falls like this so fast Ace, especially one that is as insolated as The Blade.

A couple months ago, my shop bought new computers for the entire newsroom. Our graphic designer was set up with a new computer, new software, the whole nine yards. A month later, he was laid off and the position isn't going to be filled. So that spiffy new computer and illustrating software sits on an empty desk collecting dust.

 

[HackyMcHack]

Toledo's kind of a strange paper. When the U. of Toledo beat Michigan earlier this fall, easily the biggest win in school history, it only got an above-the-mast refer, and not a special one at that. Most of the front above the fold was set aside as a front-page editorial endorsing Obama, asking him to be the next FDR. That's the Block family for you....

 

[Bucknutty]

Toledo's kind of a strange paper. When the U. of Toledo beat Michigan earlier this fall, easily the biggest win in school history, it only got an above-the-mast refer, and not a special one at that. Most of the front above the fold was set aside as a front-page editorial endorsing Obama, asking him to be the next FDR. That's the Block family for you....

And take it from personal experience...they treat their newspaper carriers like garbage.

 

[I Digress]

Anyone got news on this one?

 

[NightHawk112005]

Sorry, bad pun.
Anyway from The Pipeline:

FYI, the Toledo Blade is planning to lay off 15.5 full-time positions tomorrow. That's about 15 % of the newsroom. All will be done by seniority, and what's most frustrating is that the Blade has hired about seven reporters this year, including one who started just three months ago. =( No buyouts were offered. They also laid off two managers last week.

15.5?

How do you lay off half a position?

 

[Angola!]

Sorry, bad pun.
Anyway from The Pipeline:

FYI, the Toledo Blade is planning to lay off 15.5 full-time positions tomorrow. That's about 15 % of the newsroom. All will be done by seniority, and what's most frustrating is that the Blade has hired about seven reporters this year, including one who started just three months ago. =( No buyouts were offered. They also laid off two managers last week.

15.5?

How do you lay off half a position?

I'm sure that means a part-timer.

Full-time = 1 position
Part-time = .5 positions