Posted on 12/15/2022 1:02:19 PM PST by John W
Staffers at The Washington Post are livid at publisher Fred Ryan.
That's according to conversations I had on Wednesday with nearly a dozen employees at The Post who expressed fury at the way Ryan announced in a town hall that the company would undergo layoffs in early 2023. Ryan said that the layoffs would only amount to a single-digit percentage of the workforce and that the overall size of the company would not shrink, given there would be reinvestments in other areas. But none of that quelled outrage from staffers.
The staffers at The Post, who were already seeking answers over the way their colleagues who worked on the now-canceled Sunday magazine were summarily let go late last month, were aghast at the way Ryan conducted himself in the town hall, they told me. "He does this whole dog and pony show about how things are going great and then drops at the end that he's gong to cut the workforce — and then he refuses to take questions," one staffer told me.
Video posted on Twitter by national reporter Annie Gowen showed Ryan walk off stage as staffers peppered him with questions. Instead of answering the queries from his startled and anxious employees, Ryan told them that he would not "turn the town hall into a grievance session." In a blistering statement, The Washington Post Guild fired back at Ryan, describing his refusal to take questions as "unacceptable" behavior "from any leader," but "especially the leader of a news organization whose core values include transparency and accountability."
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Embrace the suck.
Dont know why they are upset. Its not like we are in a recession....
They can eat their fury while they learn to code.
The feel good story of the day.
With their track record he may have been lying.
Learn to subsist.
Perhaps he will fire some FBIagents?
FTX related?
Learn to coal mine or learn to code.
Maybe they can learn some journalism and try their hand at a more respectable publication.
Can’t Bezos just write a check for the difference?
I mean, owning the USA’s premier Intelligence Community / deep-state propaganda outlet comes with certain responsibilities.
These pathetic people have colluded in a false sense of entitlement and security. Now they are having to face reality and they don’t like it. Narcissistic wounds are hard to heal.
“Stop publishing Democrat lies? I’d rather lay off the entire staff!”
You live and work in a Marxist Paradise! Feel the loooooove!.....What’s not to love?................
They should have taken a career as a parasitic, government bureaucrat because sucking up to the “Democratic” Party isn’t the same thing.
They can “learn to code” and get behind every H-1B scab from India for jobs.
I think they should go on strike.
Accept it, punk.
Lol
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