We can thank Denis Horgan for the title.
And here is Paul Bass’ coverage in the New Haven Independent. He rightly observes that getting rid of Mark Pazniokas flies in the face of focusing on the paper’s strengths — mainly its phenomenal coverage of state politics.
I have to say, also, that I don’t at all understand Steve Carver’s published remark:
“I wanted to get us into an environment where we could focus on our readers and advertisers going forward, and focus on growing the business,” Carver said. “We’re going to perform at the level we’ve been performing.”
Huh?
I think he felt he had to say something, so put together a sentence that, despite the sequence of words, had as little meaning as possible. The performance part is, of course, nonsense and impossible to believe.
A note to all those massacred: If you have not already, please send me your email address so I can add you to the now much larger roster of refugees. That way your fellow refugees will be able to easily find you.
I will also be adding folks I have overlooked in the past, such as Dre Comer and Kyrie O’Connor.
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“We’re going to perform at the level we’ve been performing.”
With about half the news staff this paper had just a year ago? How? Is he serious?
“…we could focus on our readers and advertisers going forward, and focus on growing the business.”
Does Steve Carver really expect me — or anybody else, for that matter — to believe this statement?!? We’re losing advertisers at an alarming rate (yeah, like that’s a surprise to anyone), and we’re gouging the few remaining advertisers we have left. Also, by eliminating a substantial percentage of our once-talented staff of writers and editors, we’re telling our readers to go to hell.
What’s wrong with these editors? I didn’t realize till i read Denis’ column that they laid people off by phone. Jesus. How heartless and disrespectful can you get. Probably some kind of bulls— that came out of human resources. Obviously, there is nothing human or humane about these people..Wonder how they sleep at night knowing they had to slaughter their colleagues. The editors may not know this, but they will come for them one day too. And when they do, i hope they do it by phone too. Tracy Fox
From what I was told, it was done by phone at the request of many employees. The last round was done in person and became a bit of a spectacle — the long line going in and out of the editor’s office. Still seems strange, — with me it was done in person, but I was one of just six managers being laid off, not one of 30. That would make a difference.
I was laid off by phone in July. A nice 8:30 a.m. call. I thought everyone else got the same treatment. I do know everything after that didn’t happen the way I was told it would, from human resources calling me four days late to my having to call Lee Hecht Harrison more than a month later and finally getting my severance payment in a timely manner. The only thing that happen on time was cancellation of my subscription.