Miami Herald employees, worried about retaining their jobs due to severe cutbacks in the newspaper industry, have now looked to a Santeria 'rooster' (photo) for help. The rooster is actually a life sized replica with a note attached that says: Posted on 06/16/2008 7:29:49 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Miami Herald employees, worried about retaining their jobs due to severe cutbacks in the newspaper industry, have now looked to a Santeria 'rooster' (photo) for help. The rooster is actually a life sized replica with a note attached that says:
Brought in by a Santeria priest (the real deal from Hialeah) to help save our jobs. Leave an offering.
The rooster and the offerings were placed on a fifth floor counter last Thursday facing an elevator bank in the Herald building in Miami. Among the offerings placed on the counter by the end of that work day were coins, cigars, and a Virgin de Guadalupe candle. Perhaps the Herald employees need to make even more offerings since the McClatchy Company which owns the Miami Herald just announced big layoffs today:
The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) announced today that it plans to reduce its workforce by about 10% as the company accelerates efforts to manage through today's difficult advertising market and position itself for future success in an increasingly competitive environment.
"We have been transitioning steadily and successfully from a traditional newspaper company to an integrated multimedia company for some time," said McClatchy CEO Gary Pruitt. "The effects of the current national economic downturn -- particularly in real estate, auto and employment advertising -- make it essential that we move faster now to realign our workforce and make our operations more efficient. I'm sorry this requires the painful announcement we are making today, but we're taking this action to help ensure a healthy future for our company."
The total number of affected McClatchy employees is estimated at 1400. The Herald employees might think about using a real rooster, not a replica. A real rooster might be messier but possibly more effective in conjuring up Santeria power for newspaper workers protection.
H/T: Herald Watch.
ROTFLMAO ... shouldn’t they be praying to Gaia instead at the closest or rock tree?
I mean what’s the point in me praying it falls on them if they ain’t there? ;)
When I worked at the District Court in Atlanta, they had a janitor specially detailed to clean the roosters and chicken blood off the front steps on Monday morning.
In Miami we use Santeria. If this were the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, then maybe offerings to Thor or Odin would be appropriate.
I don't practice santeria
I aint got no crystal ball.
Well, I had a million dollars but I
I'd spend it all,
If I could find that heina and that sancho that she's found,
well I'd pop a cap in sancho and I'd slap her down.
What I really wanna know,
my baby, what I really want to say I can't define.
Well it's love,
that I need, oh ,
but my soul will have to,
wait till I get back find heina of my own.
Daddy's gonna love one and all.
I feel the break,
feel the break,
feel the break and I got live it out,
oh, yea huh, well I swear that I.
What I really wanna know, my baby,
what I really want to say I can't define.
f#%* love make it go,
my soul will have to...
ohhh What I really wanna say,
my baby,
What I really wanna say is I've got mine.
and I'll make it, Yes, I'm comin' up.
Tell sanchito that if he knows what is good for him he best go run and hide.
Daddy's got a new .45.
and I won't think twice to stick that barrel straight down sancho's throat.
Believe me when I say that I got somethin for his punk ass.
What I really wanna know, my baby,
oh what I really wanna say is there's just one,
way back,
and I'll make it, yea,
but my soul will have to wait.
yea, yea, yea
Thought you might want a ping to this one for the MSM death watch.
I would have expected journalists to create a golden calf.
I think this would be a great way to pick who loses their jobs. Any “journalist” who would be taken by a plea to give money to a dead rooster can’t be trusted to cover real news stories.
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