Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Losing your job and asked to reapply again?!
In the worst turns of events, the employees of the Journal News, a Westchester daily owned by Gannett, are forced to leave their jobs and reapply again?! What a shock to employees. Especially a even bigger shock for employees who worked for the company 1o years and above. It's an outrage for most of these employees who put the time and money to work hard for the company. In the article an anonymous employee expresses their feeling on the rehiring process.
“How is the fact that I don’t have a Twitter or Facebook account relevant to what I do?” he said. “After many years of great work here, I have to go into some office and tell a person who I have never met why I deserve to work at The Journal. I probably didn’t do a good enough job of hiding my disgust.”
With all the controversy going on, the majority of employees decided to go along with the process and most did not and decided to leave for good. For most people who got their job back didn't feel to happy. For an employee to who was forced to be removed and tested to get back in really doesn't feel like a victory. And for Ernie Garcia it was no victory. Below Ernie Garcia gives his reaction to the process.
“I don’t feel like a winner even though I still have my job,” said Ernie Garcia, a staff writer who covers Yonkers who credited his management with being straightforward and honest throughout the process. Still, he said: “I wish there had been a straight-up layoff. This was very nerve-racking and agonizing. And everyone in our business has to live with this uncertainty going forward. “
In response to the employees opinions Ken Doctor gave his insides in responds to what Gannett did to the company.
“It just makes sense that ‘restaffing’ the operation there is another step on the road to reshaping Gannett — print and broadcast — across the country.”
At the end of the day business is business.
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An interesting story. What is the significance of having "a Twitter or Facebook account" for these employees? Why is that important to this newspaper?
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