UPDATE: The Olympian finally posted this story on its web site Monday evening:
The Olympian will reduce its workforce by 15 positions through layoffs and buyouts in response to declining advertising revenue.
Chief financial officer Jennifer Matts-Sprague announced the reductions in a memo to employees Monday.
The reductions will occur throughout the newspaper, and employees affected will receive severance packages.
The Olympian also will reduce wages for all employees whose pay exceeds $25,000 annually.
The News Tribune of Tacoma said Monday it would reduce its staff by 30, including six jobs in the newsroom, and implement wage cuts.
Both newspapers are owned by the McClatchy Co., based in Sacramento.
The cutbacks are the third round of reductions in 10 months at the two papers.
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6 comments:
It's true, the Tribune is also laying off 30 and both sites have implemented 5% reduction in pay. Many of the Olympia workers are moving to Tacoma, most of them being inside classified sales and copy editors. Olympia faced their employees instead of telling them via email, however the Tribune followed true tasteless McClatchy form in sending the email first. Good luck to truth in media, the death of objective news sources is upon us.
Notice by e-mail. Love it! We speak truth to power, but if you don't have any power we don't speak to you at all.
Oh,Yea....and for those of you left, please work your tush off doing even more extra tasks for less money until MNI doesn't need you any more and remember to do it with a happy attitude, d--n it!
That applies to all remaining employees at all papers!
Quite clearly, this day should be memorialized with song. I know I got my golden ticket today. How's by you?
(I've Got A) Golden Ticket Lyrics
Grandpa Joe:
I never thought my life could be
Anything but catastrophe
But suddenly I begin to see
A bit of good luck for me
'Cause I've got a golden ticket
I've got a golden twinkle in my eye
I never had a chance to shine
Never a happy song to sing
But suddenly half the world is mine
What an amazing thing
'Cause I've got a golden ticket
[Spoken]
It's ours, Charlie!
[Sung]
I've got a golden sun up in the sky
I never thought I'd see the day
When I would face the world and say
Good morning, look at the sun
I never thought that I would be
Slap in the lap of luxury
'Cause I'd have said:
Charlie:
It couldn't be done
Grandpa Joe:
But it can be done
I never dreamed that I would climb
Over the moon in ecstasy
But nevertheless, it's there that I'm
Shortly about to be
Grandpa Joe and Charlie:
'Cause I've got a golden ticket
I've got a golden chance to make my way
And with a golden ticket, it's a golden day
Grandpa Joe:
[Spoken]
Good morning, look at the sun!
Grandpa Joe and Charlie:
[Sung]
'Cause I'd have said,
It couldn't be done
Grandpa Joe:
But it can be done
I never dreamed that I would climb
Over the moon in ecstasy
But nevertheless, it's there that I'm
Shortly about to be
'Cause I've got a golden ticket
Grandpa Joe and Charlie:
'Cause I've got a golden ticket
I've got a golden chance to make my way
And with a golden ticket, it's a golden day
thanks 7:19
I am prety sure i know who you are. Keep singing...
You will be missed by a lot of folks.
I don't know that the Olympian was any better morally than the TNT, because the TNT actually talked to their own people face-to-face when they were telling the people who were involuntarily being laid off as well as those who have the choice at the moment to take a voluntary layoff. The Olympian employees who had already had their jobs moved to Tacoma *and* already had their hours cut *and* are now looking at being laid off weren't even informed of this by anyone who worked for the Olympian -- instead, they were told this by an HR person at the TNT that they had never met before, accompanied by their TNT "handler". So I don't really believe the Olympian has the high ground here. It was mid-afternoon at the earliest on Monday that the Olympian people who are working out of the TNT had any official word what was happening!
The fact of the matter is, I don't think the TNT or the Olympian is doing even a halfway decent job of dealing with all this... and a LOT of stupid stuff is going down that the public who is still buying either paper is bound to find out about sooner or later -- and that, added to the increased costs coming up with both papers, is going to cause this same situation to happen again in probably another six months!
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