http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/26/fairfax-suffering-from-anti-employee-management/ now with extra source Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:00:38 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/26/fairfax-suffering-from-anti-employee-management/#comment-10115 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-10115 I get the feeling it is terrorism against the staff. They will be back to hiring even as they cut and slash to simply shake up the team, keep workers nervous and pliable, worried about their lifestyle and mortgages. Getting more pounds of flesh. Lisa Prior's piece about over working gophers in high status companies in last weekend's Good Weekend had a fair anecdote - boss to keen newbie - you work 14-16 hour days for 5 years and I (not you) will have another palatial mansion like this. They will call it clearing out dead wood but they wouldn't know wood from putty more likely. Judging by 4 Corners last night this ultra corporate phase was forestalled back in 1990 or so when the Goanna was denied his live chicken dinner. I get the feeling it is terrorism against the staff. They will be back to hiring even as they cut and slash to simply shake up the team, keep workers nervous and pliable, worried about their lifestyle and mortgages. Getting more pounds of flesh. Lisa Prior’s piece about over working gophers in high status companies in last weekend’s Good Weekend had a fair anecdote - boss to keen newbie - you work 14-16 hour days for 5 years and I (not you) will have another palatial mansion like this. They will call it clearing out dead wood but they wouldn’t know wood from putty more likely. Judging by 4 Corners last night this ultra corporate phase was forestalled back in 1990 or so when the Goanna was denied his live chicken dinner.

]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/26/fairfax-suffering-from-anti-employee-management/#comment-10116 Michael Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-10116 "There will be criticism from some, inside and outside the company, that these changes, particularly in editorial, will compromise quality and critical mass in the metro mastheads and their mission. We reject that." Well they would say that wouldn't they ?. The Fairfax board are completely inept. They don't have a clue about newspaper culture and seem intent on divesting themselves of all the best journalists and photographers. They are going the way of the once quality UK newspapers like the Guardian or Independant. Rather that provide an alternative to garbage like the Sun or Mirror-those newspapers are dumbing themselves down to compete. It looks like the SMH is intent on mirroring the Daily Terror-but why ? There's only room for one in this twon. Already the Sun Herald has plummeted to Sunday telegraph standards and is losing readers each week. It was nice while it lasted I suppose. “There will be criticism from some, inside and outside the company, that these changes, particularly in editorial, will compromise quality and critical mass in the metro mastheads and their mission. We reject that.” Well they would say that wouldn’t they ?. The Fairfax board are completely inept. They don’t have a clue about newspaper culture and seem intent on divesting themselves of all the best journalists and photographers. They are going the way of the once quality UK newspapers like the Guardian or Independant. Rather that provide an alternative to garbage like the Sun or Mirror-those newspapers are dumbing themselves down to compete. It looks like the SMH is intent on mirroring the Daily Terror-but why ? There’s only room for one in this twon. Already the Sun Herald has plummeted to Sunday telegraph standards and is losing readers each week. It was nice while it lasted I suppose.

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