Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Watching you

A reader tells me Modesto Bee employees have heard a rumor that publisher Eric Johnston is checking to see if employees are posting anything to this blog.

Don't know if he is having Bee computers monitored. But I have heard the same thing from employees at other McClatchy papers.
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14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not to worry, 3BeeIT can barely protect the credit card transaction database, much less monitor IP traces out of the Modbee

Anonymous said...

this doesn't sound very double plus good.

Anonymous said...

That is what they did at the Star. They spent days trying to track people down. Zieman didn't like anyone talking bad about huny buns.

Anonymous said...

Hey rhonda, is that you?

Anonymous said...

No, I spell it Huny Bunz and don't you be pushin on me.

John Altevogt said...

Wouldn't it be hilarious if he canned one of our trolls out of retaliation?

Anonymous said...

It would be funny, but it would still serve his purpose. Love them or hate them, trolls are what defines the whole bunch. That's why it never hurts to poke them with a stick. Especially the Tinkerbells. They really sequel.

Anonymous said...

GLOBE PROPOSES 23 PERCENT PAY CUT, WHILE GUILD EXECUTIVE PAY DOUBLES SINCE 2005 (UNION HACKS TAKE CARE OF UNDERLINGS)

(The pay of the Guild’s seven executive committee officers has almost doubled since 2005, jumping from $95,739 to $178,655 last year.)


Boston Globe management and the Boston Newspaper Guild resumed negotiations this evening so far apart that the company has proposed, with what it called its "last, best offer," to slash wages of Guild members by about 23 percent to gain the $10 million in concessions sought from the union, according to Guild and management representatives with knowledge of the negotiations.

Globe management presented that offer on Sunday, a move that could lay the groundwork for management to declare an impasse and unilaterally impose the draconian wage cuts, said Thomas Kohler, a Boston College law professor. Labor laws allow companies, under certain legal conditions, to impose the conditions of their last, best offers if an impasse is reached in negotiations.

Globe spokesman Robert Powers declined to comment. In a statement yesterday that announced agreements on financial and contract concessions with six other Globe unions, Powers said management was "evaluating our alternatives under both the Guild contract and applicable law to achieve as quickly as possible the workplace flexibility and remaining cost savings we need to help put The Globe on a sound financial footing."

DUMB MARXISTS WORRY AS THEIR GUILD LEADERS GET FAT. GUILD ANIMAL FARM ANYONE?

Guild leaders get fat with pay hikes. Union prez takes raise as members sacrifice

Beleaguered leaders of the Boston Globe’s biggest union - under fire for failing to strike a concession deal with the paper’s out-of-town overlords - have themselves received generous pay hikes over the past three years - even as their members have gone without a raise, according to federal filings.

As recently as March, Boston Newspaper Guild president Dan Totten noted union members haven’t had a raise since 2006 as he slammed Globe and New York Times [NYT] Co. management for getting an extra two weeks paid vacation in exchange for accepting a 5 percent pay cut.

“The BNG is now in its fourth year of a wage freeze. Yet today, The NYT and Globe announced a five percent wage cut for managers, who will also receive an additional 10 personal days,” Totten said in a March 30 statement. “The Guild believes this is an affront to the workers who work without pay raises and perks every day.”

Records show that Totten’s Guild salary has jumped 12 percent in three years, from $87,482 in 2006 to $97,929 in 2007 to $98,076 in 2008.

Collectively, the pay of the Guild’s seven executive committee officers has almost doubled since 2005, jumping from $95,739 to $178,655 last year.

Anonymous said...

Possibly, there seem to be more Moonbat Marxist trolls here recently.

Anonymous said...

All this just shows its best to do your real web surfing at home. Employers are pissy enough about people doing non-work related things on work computers as it is. Get management with an axe to grind, and its just a ton worse.

Anonymous said...

Eric Johnston if your reading this...please resign today. Your egotistical thinking has put the Modbee in the position it is in today. This is one of your employees

Anonymous said...

So much for freedom of speech the managers like to spout about-----I was laid off last year, though, so better luck elsewhere.

Anonymous said...

Well Eric Maybe you should use your time more wisely and sit your ass at the security desk to monitor who comes in and out of the building.

Since you had to let your security go because you cant pay them anymore. It just makes better sense then sitting in front of your computer monitoring who leaves comments on McClatchy Watch.

I do have to say you are to worst publisher so far. whats that saying young, dumb and full of....Well crap I would have to say. Such a dumb ass.

Basically telling there employees they could lose there job if he finds out who posts information about the company on McClatchy Watch.

Anonymous said...

To anonymous 11:11, we look forward to your next visit to the Bee so you can pick up more rumors to post here. You were set up "dumb ass."