Subject: Reduction-In-Force
You were informed previously that the reduction-in-force would be
completed by March 27. I wanted to let you know that the action has
been delayed to allow additional time to complete the necessary work.
I appreciate your patience.
Jim
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Would it be asking too much for him to have at least put a time-frame on the email regarding when the layoffs will be taking place?
ReplyDeleteJim Moroney had told a group of high-level managers a couple of weeks ago that the cuts were delayed to the week of April 6. Since then, the rumor was that the cuts could have been further delayed by a week.
ReplyDeleteThank God for more time. George may have just cut our chances of getting hired locally in half with his column today.
ReplyDeleteIt's not hatin' our friends at the DO to suggest that George is not wrong about the differing standards between us 'n them. And that it is to the DMN's benefit to have readers reminded about why they should trust us more than other news outlets...DO has value, to be sure, But it's not the same.
ReplyDeleteThere is one problem with the layoffs being postponed. There is a number of dollars that includes salary for this year and benefits that they want to reduce. So every payday that passes by before the announcement comes, that adds another person (or more) to the layoffs.
ReplyDeleteYou people crack me up! So he sent out an email to explain the delays, and now you are ticked. Tell me this, would you have been equally upset if he hadn't explained? Absolutely, you would have complained that the original date had expired and nothing had been communicated.
ReplyDeleteWe can appreciate what he told us and still think he might have released more information. If he has it.
ReplyDelete"You people crack me up?"
ReplyDeleteI smell a management shill.
I smell someone who misread the rules for this blog. What part of "no personal attacks" was unclear?
ReplyDeleteThe problem with TDMN isn't what they said or didn't say recently. The problem is what actions they could have and should have been making over the past 10 years to prepare their company and their employees for the future.
ReplyDeleteIf I am one of the ones about to be laid off, then I am in no rush to get that news. Each day of continued employment brings money that I can save to pay one more bill and buy one more bag of groceries.
ReplyDeleteIf I am fortunate enough to survive the cuts, then I will consider my low morale a temporary price to pay for maintaining a full-time job.
The hot rumor now is that Dechard rejected the cuts list, insisting that more "management" be on it. I won't be convinced they are serious about fixing this mess unless some of the higher ups get whacked. We have too many of VPs, a bloated HR dept. and larger-than-needed bureaucracy as a whole. Your business model is completely broken, friggin FIX IT!
ReplyDeleteAnything more on the "hot rumor" posted here yesterday?
ReplyDeleteApparently, there wasn't enough salary $4 in the list of names? Will they add more peons to the list or a few higher paid people?