Get Woke, Go Broke: Washington Post Staff Meeting Erupts Into Chaos As Layoffs Announced
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Originally posted by darthfuster: Sane people would learn from this and make a profitable correction. These are bed wetting Leftists so I don’t expect much.
Somebody on Twitter had written "Woke is the opposite of fascist," to which I replied "Woke isn't the opposite of fascist. Woke is the opposite of rational."
These people aren't rational.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
December 15, 2022, 03:08 PM
konata88
It's apparent that what's awakened is not the ego or superego but rather the emotional Id. Me-centric and rather fascist in nature.
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book
December 15, 2022, 03:18 PM
oddball
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Originally posted by PASig: The Washington Post is a victim of its own elitist ideology, and many of the employees are just as guilty as the leadership. Get woke, go broke.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
December 15, 2022, 03:25 PM
erj_pilot
Looking in my bag....... Looking in my bag....... Looking in my bag....... Looking in my bag....... annnnnd Looking in my bag......
NOPE!!! ZERO fucks to give!
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
December 15, 2022, 03:29 PM
YooperSigs
One can only hope Yahoo News and Huffington Post is next.
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December 16, 2022, 06:17 AM
Spiff_P239
What’s that saying? Karma’s a bitch?
December 16, 2022, 07:11 AM
DanH
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Amazon must not be doing so great this holiday season, and funds are drying up.
Bezos did spend $1 billion on Rings of Power and it flopped hard. Gotta cut from somewhere.
December 16, 2022, 07:25 AM
Skins2881
Musk Bezos is a evil billionaire for cutting dead weight. End of democracy. Boycotts, investigations, and lots of crying is what we need right now to stand up to the patriarchy and 1%. Bezos should be forced to keep the employees even with the company losing money, firing them will lead to harm to the LGBTQ community and disproportionately affect BIPOCs and other historically disadvantaged people.
He's pretty much Hitler, maybe worse, maybe he's Trumpian.
Jesse
Sic Semper Tyrannis
December 16, 2022, 02:13 PM
AITG
Wow...there's not one person here feeling bad for the snowflakes that may have to find a real job?
ME NEITHER. Welcome to real life.
December 16, 2022, 02:25 PM
JohnO
When did it sink ?.
When I lived in DC this was the best paper in America.. Now it's just trash.
Fire everyone and "rebirth" it.
These days only the WSJ is worth reading.
December 16, 2022, 02:38 PM
ZSMICHAEL
Yep. Even the NYT was worth reading back then.I read the WSJ daily and it has indeed evolved to become more than just a financial paper.
December 16, 2022, 02:51 PM
patw
Good for them. They speak half truths,if not whole lies and they expected nothing in return?
December 16, 2022, 02:58 PM
HRK
The media they fought hard to get Trump for 4 years, maligned, debated, fake news.
They actually didn't see Trump was keeping them in business, helping them sell advertising, which creates revenue which equals jobs.
That Socialistic mindset kept them from seeing the inevitable fall and dismantling of their businesses. No stories that people want to read, no advertising revenue.
They could have attacked him some and pushed him up for the things he did well, get Trump re-elected and have 4 more years of good sales.
Oh well maybe Beezoo's will call the new CEO of Amazon and tell him to hire them to drive packages part time for the holidays...
December 16, 2022, 05:40 PM
Rightwire
Maybe Elon Musk can step in and buy them too....
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January 24, 2023, 03:47 PM
Sigmund
I feel so bad for them...
The Washington Post Lays Off 20 People
It will close KidsPost and Launcher, its video-game and esports vertical.
WRITTEN BY ANDREW BEAUJON | PUBLISHED ON JANUARY 24, 2023
Last month Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan told employees that layoffs were imminent. On Tuesday the company began to institute them. The Post eliminated 20 newsroom positions and won’t fill 30 open jobs, Executive Editor Sally Buzbee told staffers in a memo.
Management, Buzbee says, “prioritized the elimination of vacancies to minimize the impact on employees” and also decided to eliminate “currently filled positions we concluded are not essential to serving our competitive needs.” Among those non-essentially competitive budget lines are KidsPost and the Post’s video game and esports vertical, Launcher, which it began in 2019. The Post’s PR operation has not responded to multiple requests for comment.
The Post’s union, however, had plenty to say: “we believe any job eliminations right now are unacceptable,” it says in a statement. “The number should be zero.” Management, the union contends, has provided “no clear explanation for why the layoffs are happening” and believes the layoffs “are not financially necessary or rooted in any coherent business plan from Fred Ryan, who said at the same town hall that he expects the company to be larger a year from now...”
