Ha! As Miss Marple would say. The employees of a dinosaur fishwrap owned by a so called non profit are at risk of being sacrificed to the Aztec Bottom Liners.
"The Times has also been forced to cut costs in ways that will sound familiar to journalists elsewhere, such as by shrinking the size of the paper to save on newsprint costs; eliminating the quarterly cost-of-living increases once granted regularly to all staffers; and ditching the paper’s traditional pension plan for new hires and replacing it with a less costly 401(k).
"And things are about to get a lot rougher. Executive Editor Neil Brown warned recently in the Times' in-house newsletter that the paper’s profits this year “if there are any, will be dangerously low.” As a result, the paper plans to eliminate 80 to 90 jobs companywide by the end of 2007, mostly through attrition. Some of those cuts will come from the newsroom, which is already more than 15 jobs over budget. Hiring from outside the company will become “very rare.”
"Brown concluded by warning that “this will be the new model for the future, not a quick fix that we expect will be reversed when our economics improve.”
Once the so called non profit dinosaur fishwrap owners/execs get used to the taste of the blood of their fired employees. Future firings will be easier and will serve as punishment, whenever bad results are reported.
The surviving execs/high priests and priestesses will become blood thirsty and will gladly become Aztec priests in their dealings with their underlings. They will use human sacrifices/firings to appease the evil Gods, the owners. Top management knows that there is no place for them to run to for a big paycheck. So they will gladly sacrifice those under them to stay employed until they too are sacrificed.
Now every employee is just one personality conflict away from being sacrificed to the Fishwrap Gods, er, fired.
