Sounds from Work
My work's parent company just went bankrupt. Anonymous reaction spreads across the Internet like wildfire.
Angry Journalist #9180:
I am angry that not only did Freedom not tell its employees they were going bankrupt, many higher-ups are hiding their fucking heads in the sand like this is a problem will be gone in the morning. Fucking idiots. And they wonder why the company is in such a shitty position.
Angry Journalist #9179:
Freedom goes belly up. Last year this time they were sending ad reps to Cancun for meeting quotas. Nobody ever sent us to Cancun for exceeding quotas. Oh, and we still pay for the lady to come in once a week and water the plants. Guess the potted palm in the lobby is more important than me.
Angry Journalist #9165:
Bankruptcy? You fucking lied to us, Freedom. You told us those 5% pay cuts were keeping us OUT of bankruptcy.
Fuck you.
Angry Journalist #9163:
I’m angry that Freedom Communications first scrapped my promised raise. Then they gave me a furlough (read: 2 percent pay cut). Then they cut my salary 5 percent. And then it was all for nothing: they went bankrupt anyway.
Fortunately, I quit my reporter job and found a new gig two weeks ago, just before this bankruptcy news. I was having a lot of second thoughts about leaving the business… but after learning that my paper is going bankrupt just weeks after I left has gone a long was toward settling my mind.
I’m just so upset to see all this shit happening, good journalism getting run into the ground, and good people suffering. Things aren’t the same way they were, and they never ever will be again.
Angry Journalist #8930:
5% pay cut, less than 90 days after we finish taking furloughs. No overtime, and layoffs lurk around every corner, like a horde of bloodthirsty velociraptors.
Is this what you meant by “good important work”, O Publisher? This is how you motivate us?
‘Cause I’m starting to doubt you.
Angry Journalist #8926:
This paycut announcement will be made on the day that Scott Flanders ends his association with Freedom to become the CEO of Playboy.
Shortly after Flanders interviewed with Playboy, he told Freedom’s board of directors that he would stay with Freedom if he received a “retention bonus.”
This is the same clown who never had a profitable quarter during his entire tenure as CEO AND had the unmitigated gall to ask for a RAISE days after mass layoffs at Freedom’s newspapers & TV stations.
Did I mention that Flanders’ “journalism” background consists of running the Columbia House Record Club?
Angry Journalist #8812:
The douchebag CEO of my company left to head Playboy. Thanks a lot. Wish you had done that before you made me take a furlough, stripped me of half my vacation, raised my benefits, and canceled my pay promised pay raise.
So that's the general sentiment at my work. I love anonymous venting websites.
Angry Journalist #9180:
I am angry that not only did Freedom not tell its employees they were going bankrupt, many higher-ups are hiding their fucking heads in the sand like this is a problem will be gone in the morning. Fucking idiots. And they wonder why the company is in such a shitty position.
Angry Journalist #9179:
Freedom goes belly up. Last year this time they were sending ad reps to Cancun for meeting quotas. Nobody ever sent us to Cancun for exceeding quotas. Oh, and we still pay for the lady to come in once a week and water the plants. Guess the potted palm in the lobby is more important than me.
Angry Journalist #9165:
Bankruptcy? You fucking lied to us, Freedom. You told us those 5% pay cuts were keeping us OUT of bankruptcy.
Fuck you.
Angry Journalist #9163:
I’m angry that Freedom Communications first scrapped my promised raise. Then they gave me a furlough (read: 2 percent pay cut). Then they cut my salary 5 percent. And then it was all for nothing: they went bankrupt anyway.
Fortunately, I quit my reporter job and found a new gig two weeks ago, just before this bankruptcy news. I was having a lot of second thoughts about leaving the business… but after learning that my paper is going bankrupt just weeks after I left has gone a long was toward settling my mind.
I’m just so upset to see all this shit happening, good journalism getting run into the ground, and good people suffering. Things aren’t the same way they were, and they never ever will be again.
Angry Journalist #8930:
5% pay cut, less than 90 days after we finish taking furloughs. No overtime, and layoffs lurk around every corner, like a horde of bloodthirsty velociraptors.
Is this what you meant by “good important work”, O Publisher? This is how you motivate us?
‘Cause I’m starting to doubt you.
Angry Journalist #8926:
This paycut announcement will be made on the day that Scott Flanders ends his association with Freedom to become the CEO of Playboy.
Shortly after Flanders interviewed with Playboy, he told Freedom’s board of directors that he would stay with Freedom if he received a “retention bonus.”
This is the same clown who never had a profitable quarter during his entire tenure as CEO AND had the unmitigated gall to ask for a RAISE days after mass layoffs at Freedom’s newspapers & TV stations.
Did I mention that Flanders’ “journalism” background consists of running the Columbia House Record Club?
Angry Journalist #8812:
The douchebag CEO of my company left to head Playboy. Thanks a lot. Wish you had done that before you made me take a furlough, stripped me of half my vacation, raised my benefits, and canceled my pay promised pay raise.
So that's the general sentiment at my work. I love anonymous venting websites.