Monday, August 22, 2011

What the predictions are like

This week? Next week? Next month? Bermuda? Puerto Rico? Minor trim or bloodbath? At this point I trust none of them. I would be very surprised if there was no truth to the basic line that layoffs are coming. The rest of the chatter is all over the map, so to speak. 
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 22, 2011 at 9:56 AM

    It's coming. Managers are acknowledging something major is in the works. We just don't know what. My bet is it's not unprecedented expansion.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 22, 2011 at 7:49 PM

    The hurricane map is an apt comparison. But there's usually no doubt that a hurricane will form; normally the lack of consensus is where it will land.

    Right now the red cone of disaster is pointed over the sports and news production desks. But there will be localized flooding and waterspouts on both sides of where the storm comes ashore.

    The one consistent aspect has been management's ability to keep this locked down. There are very few people "in the know" right now, and given the likelihood of the impact of the cuts, word eventually will leak out because of the necessity to widen the circle to those who will map the new workflow.

    And don't be shocked to see those left behind take another pay cut, as well.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 23, 2011 at 2:14 AM

    Or furlough days.

    And, with September about to start, don't assume that the schedule you're given is the real schedule. There's already a "real" one ready for your new-look department.

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  4. roodmoodAugust 24, 2011 at 4:24 AM

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  5. AnonymousAugust 24, 2011 at 1:04 PM

    The 4:24 a.m. ravings should be removed for being wildly off-topic ax-grinding. The post is nothing but typical weird creepiness from a disturbed former employee who was terminated for cause, not as part of any RIF.

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  6. DMNcutsadminAugust 24, 2011 at 1:46 PM

    Yes I should have kept that one off. Not because of who it might be from but because it broke my rule of not allowing comments to name others. That one was mostly goofy. I am mostly willing to allow goofy comments. That one, however, went a bit beyond. I will be more careful.

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  7. AnonymousAugust 25, 2011 at 11:33 AM

    A source on the first floor reports that layoffs are happening down there as I type this comment.

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  8. AnonymousAugust 25, 2011 at 12:16 PM

    Does anyone have details on the marketing/advertising cuts that apparently already took place today 8/25?

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  9. AnonymousAugust 25, 2011 at 12:25 PM

    Cuts were made this morning in marketing, ad art and sales. About 8 so far.

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  10. AnonymousAugust 25, 2011 at 1:13 PM

    Layoffs include sales account executives and at least one executive assistant

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