[ken5050]

FYI...most management, in instituting layoffs, follows the exampel of real-estate developers. Someone buys a piece of land, wants to build 25 homes on it..He first submits a proposal to the planning board for, say, 50 homes on the site. Hearing are held, neighbors object, the usual reasons..valid or not, traffic, schools, NIMBY, etc. He then comes back with a REDUCED proposal for only 25 homes. Everyone is happy....neighbors "win" their victory, planning board and town council can get re-elected next time, and the developer has what he origianlly wanted..That's how the game is played. I suspect that the paper's management got what it originally wanted THIS time..They'll get the rest in about a year..

[abb]

They'll get the rest in about a year..

If they're still in business then...

[Grampa Dave]

Ken noted, "I suspect that the paper's management got what it originally wanted THIS time..They'll get the rest in about a year..

Once the dinosaur fishwrap execs get used to the taste of the blood of their fired employees. Future firings will be easier and will serve as serial punishment for their peons, whenever bad results are reported.

The execs/high priests and priestesses will become blood thirsty and will gladly be Aztec High Priests in their dealings with their underlings. They will eagerily use human sacrifices/firings to appease the evil Gods of the business world. Top management knows that there is no place for them to run to for a big paycheck. So they will gladly sacrifice the peons under them to stay employed until they too are sacrificed.

Now every Media News - fishwrap employee is just one personality conflict away from being sacrificed to the Fishwrap Gods, er, fired.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

That is true. The leadup to this had the entire paper closing down... now with "only" 27 jobs being eliminated, it seems like a reprieve. But the big cut is coming, or the shutdown. abb is right... you can't get there from here.