Posted on 04/08/2022 1:50:28 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
'Paranoid' WarnerMedia staff are preparing for another round of layoffs ahead of the completion of its merger with media conglomerate Discovery, sources have revealed, after a firing spree this week saw nine top execs nixed from the company.
The nine departures saw the exit of CEO Jason Kilar, Warner Bros. chief Ann Sarnoff, and HBO Max general manager Andy Forssell.
Other staffers set to leave the company Friday include WarnerMedia CRO Tony Goncalves, CTO Richard Tom, CFO Jennifer Biry, Executive Vice President Jim Cummings, CIO Christy Haubegger and WarnerMedia general counsel Jim Meza.
All were top members of Kilar's management team.
'I've never seen such paranoia. It's bad, it's crazy,' a source from within the company - which owns HBO, CNN, and Warner Bros - told The Wrap Thursday. 'These people are palpably nervous.'
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They will have more leisure time to pursue their main hobby—pedophilia.
Kilar was due a $20 million payment if he was still on the payroll on May 1. My guess is he will still be on the payroll on May 1 and get his $20 million in return for firing a number of the on-air personalities and other considerations to help make the transition smoother than it might otherwise have been.
Better to pay him that money than get sued for it since it isn’t a for cause termination.
Many times people get fired because their bosses are idiots and fear the person they fired might get their jobs. Happens a lot.
“You got fired and wound up with better pay and bennies? “
The trick is being ready to move. The problem with many younger people today is they feel entitled to whatever level of pay they were at, but they don’t want to move. You have to go wherever the jobs are. (However, when I hit my late fifties the final time I got fired was it for regular employment. I did get eighteen months on contract doing a job that had become political poison for the company that had the contract. I loved the heck out of it, though.) But at the time during the Obama cluster fluck suddenly it was VERY hard to get any employment in my field. I ended up retired early.
What you can do and when and for how much is often a product of what your industry and the economy are doing at the time. A rising tide lifts all boats.
“Licht said his one directive as incoming CNN president is to ensure that it ‘remains the global leader in news’ “
remains???
dude, that ship sailed a LONG time ago ...
And, of course, if he doesn’t clean house as instructed, his termination would be for cause.
Not only because of bias and incompetence, but these mergers have to be paid for somehow, and the first way is by “synergies” that occur when two companies become one. They don’t need two CEOs, two CFOs, two general counsels, etc and on down the line. Director level managers will be given new reports and the other company’s directors will be canned. HR, accounting, etc will be consolidated and eventually lots of people will be let go and those left will be given more to do. This is aside from operational changes that Discover will no doubt make to put CNN on a different course.
Does Don Lemon groom young boys?
Does Don Lemon groom young boys?
I presume they’re all flaming libs who voted against Trump so no sympathy here. You got what you asked for.
Oh I sure hope so. From recent accounts stelter’s firing is a strong possibility. Couldn’t happen to a nicer POS
Damn!
Dude looks like a dildo with ears!
Hey, I know what you mean about going where the jobs are. I retired from the Army back in March 1992. Because I had a bunch of leave time built up, I was able to leave on what we called “terminal leave” in the middle of December. While on leave, you are basically gone, retired. But if a war broke out you could immediately be brought right back. But I went job hunting. I had two daughters and myself to look after. I had been a single dad for five years and needed a job to support us along with my retired pay (nowhere enough to support just me, no way with two kids). So, I spent from December to June looking for work. I went from where I retired, Fort Benning, GA, home to Alabama and started looking. I went to Atlanta, Birmingham, down to Florida in Tallahassee and Gainesville looking. Nothing worth what I needed. I had two aunts that lived in Washington state, and I was close to one of them over the years, always staying in touch. She had my uncle send me the Sunday paper to look for jobs. I finally saw that there were jobs in law offices out there by the ton. So, I talked it over with my girls and since they had been moving all their lives, one more move was fine. So we moved to WA and I got a job within FOUR days of being there!! I went on a Thursday to interview and was hired and started the next Monday. The lawyer I was working for at a good sized firm had a brother who was career Navy. So he hired me because of his brother being military. That was fine by me. We hit it off great. I lived out there for 14 years. Met my current wife out there. We moved back to Alabama in late 2006. My girls were grown and gone. Both have finally come back to Alabama also. We are happy back here in Bama. My wife loves it down here. She is from Wisconsin but lived the big majority of her life in WA. She loves the south. Seattle had just become a totally different city than when she grew up there in the 1950s and 1960s. But, I moved over 3,000 miles for a job and did well out there. I changed jobs twice more after that first job. Ended up with a very large firm and working for an attorney from Buffalo, NY who came to WA state. Female. Give you one guess why she came to WA state. Yeah, her girlfriend worked for the US Attorney’s office in Seattle. They went to China and BOUGHT a child and brought the child back here to the USA.
Thanks marcusmaximus.
That I agree with. I even saw that a lot in the Army. Some guy just above you is scared of you if he is weak and you are seen as a better leader and soldier than he/she is. I saw it happen a lot. The leadership sees that person weak and will move that person out to a different position in a different place and move you up into that person’s slot. They move that person completely out of the area, new company, station, etc., as to not embarrass him. You leave him there and people would talk and not obey him because they saw him as weak, etc. So, move him to a new duty position in another unit in the battalion, brigade, etc.
More proof there is a God...
Been around awhile. Chief Financial, Chief Technology or Chief Info ... that layer has VPs underneath. Big companies. Too big for one person to understand details of all what’s happening, they have to pick and choose what to study.
Especially West Point graduates.
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