easy2012 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9728557/Guardian-steps-up-pressure-for-staff-to-volunteer-for-redundancy.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richc Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9728557/Guardian-steps-up-pressure-for-staff-to-volunteer-for-redundancy.html The trougher-in-chief at the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, rakes in half a million pounds a year for reprinting press releases from the Labour Party. He's being paid an obscene amount of money to drive the paper into the ground. No one needs to lose their job; he needs to take a pay cut. Okay, Polly Toynbee should lose her job, but that's a different story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikthe20 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 They need to follow their own policies. They must therefore borrow more to invest and get their revenues up - I'm sure that can only be successful. They can also follow their own policies by not being owned (or their building being owned) by offshore companies. Bunch of ******ing hypocrits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone_Twin Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I have a friend who worked at the Grauniad until a year or so ago. Reasonably senior. Got out (new job not redundancy) while the going was good. Said there is a lot of realisation in the ranks that the slide to oblivion is nigh on inevitable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomandlu Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Okay, Polly Toynbee should lose her job, but that's a different story. I'm never sure whether to 'fess up that Ms Toynbee is a friend of the family... probably best not... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheBlueCat Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I'm never sure whether to 'fess up that Ms Toynbee is a friend of the family... probably best not... Jimmy Saville was a friend of my family if that makes you feel any better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Peter Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I'm never sure whether to 'fess up that Ms Toynbee is a friend of the family... probably best not... Do you get to holiday at her Tuscan villa? I suppose one should ask, how do you find her? Peter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffy666 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I'm never sure whether to 'fess up that Ms Toynbee is a friend of the family... probably best not... I found Ms Toynbee's writing in the run up to the last election, when it was clear that Gordon Brown had basically gone mad, to be a kind of bleak comedy.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomandlu Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 (edited) Do you get to holiday at her Tuscan villa? I suppose one should ask, how do you find her? Peter. TBH I haven't seen her for probably ten years (her mum was a very close friend of my mum, but she died several years ago), but she always seemed very nice. Never been to the villa... I'm sure that's very nice too... edit to add - I have to say I've no idea what I'd say to her if we met these days - I do find most of what she writes to be complete drivel... Edited December 7, 2012 by tomandlu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Peter Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 TBH I haven't seen her for probably ten years (her mum was a very close friend of my mum, but she died several years ago), but she always seemed very nice. Never been to the villa... I'm sure that's very nice too... edit to add - I have to say I've no idea what I'd say to her if we met these days - I do find most of what she writes to be complete drivel... I suspect that most people are okay/nice and they'd write complete drivel too if they had to turn out article after article.... Peter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomberbrown Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 1354886609[/url]' post='909207309']Jimmy Saville was a friend of my family if that makes you feel any better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffneck Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Hopefully they will stop printing their paper copy within 2 years.The sooner this news outlet goes the way of the dodo the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomandlu Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Jimmy Saville was a friend of my family if that makes you feel any better. Yes - yes it does... err, was he a 'close' friend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomandlu Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Hopefully they will stop printing their paper copy within 2 years.The sooner this news outlet goes the way of the dodo the better. It can be a frustrating read, but I'd still argue that it's one of best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peahead Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 they need to stop printing papers and start printing paper money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffy666 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Hopefully they will stop printing their paper copy within 2 years.The sooner this news outlet goes the way of the dodo the better. Yes, we should get all of our facts from the Daily Mail.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomandlu Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Yes, we should get all of our facts from the Daily Mail.. Bottom line, we are very badly served by our press... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheBlueCat Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Yes - yes it does... err, was he a 'close' friend? Hugely distant glad to say! He went to school with a great-uncle that I met once in around 1978 - I only found out about it a couple of weeks ago when my mum mentioned it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RufflesTheGuineaPig Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Compulsory redundancy is a legal nightmare, so the payoffs you see for voluntary redundancy can be quite obscene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the shaping machine Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Yes, we should get all of our facts from the Daily Mail.. I'm not sure I'd look for facts in either the Mail or the Guardian. However the situation the Guardian finds itself in is rather funny considering their relaxed attitude to government debt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyMe Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 (edited) When the forces that be turn a country's currency into toilet paper there is no money for newspapers. I've not bought a newspaper for years. Now with FLS shit in the air and hugely negative returns I;m off all out spending strike, in fact I'm selling stuff off, if I can do it negative discretionary spending is my goal. Edited December 7, 2012 by OnlyMe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wherebee Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 (edited) Compulsory redundancy is a legal nightmare, so the payoffs you see for voluntary redundancy can be quite obscene. Is this not a beautiful irony? The newspaper that fought for years for layer after layer of beureaucratic brakes to be placed on nasty capitalist companies is stuck having to beg people to leave with wheelbarrows of cash because sacking them - presumably even widely hated ones such as Polly T - is too difficult. Plus - and icing on the cake - at least some of those that lose their jobs/leave will find that i) their payoff doesnt go far because of the devaluation of the pound and high survival costs as discussed ad nasuem on other threadfs; ii) competition for new jobs in the real world is intense, in part because of open immigration policies. and I know I can'y spell beauractracitic. It's one of my two blindspot words. Edited December 8, 2012 by wherebee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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