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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:03 pm
by jtstang
McClown27 wrote:All of the sports people can go--save Calvin. They need a makeover dedicated almost entirely to local teams.
Local teams? The Cowboys, Mavs, Rangers and Stars get plenty of coverage. If you're talking about one particular local college's teams, I think they need makeovers dedicated to performing on the field and court in a manner worthy of newspaper coverage first. Until then, what we get is what we deserve.
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:11 pm
by Big10Ponyfan
From the Dallas Business Journal
They are offering employees 2 weeks of base pay for every year up to 15 years.
They are offering employees 3 weeks of base pay for every year beyond 15 years.
What a cheap offer!!! Take about 25 percent off for taxes and you don't have much. They are hoping 85 people will take it or else it will be layoffs.
They are also offering a lump sum of one year for Cobra coverage.
Talk about a paper with no direction.
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:42 pm
by McClown27
I hope Steve Blow takes it.
Re: not that many
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:15 pm
by ponyplayer
Throwback wrote:SportsDay has a staff of about 90-95, I remember reading when they laid a bunch of people off two years ago. If they take 30 out, that's 1/3 of their staff going away. No way they can run the sports as we're used to seeing it with 60 people.
So, don't believe the hype. SportsDay will have its share of people leaving, but 30 would be ridiculous.
Then again, they might shrink it down to 30 people, and then just run all the press releases from the UT Sports Information Dept. to fill in the rest.
might want to go with lay-off,,, L word by itself might imply other meaning...........
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:10 pm
by MrMustang1965
Big10Ponyfan wrote:From the Dallas Business Journal
They are offering employees 2 weeks of base pay for every year up to 15 years.
They are offering employees 3 weeks of base pay for every year beyond 15 years.
What a cheap offer!!! Take about 25 percent off for taxes and you don't have much. They are hoping 85 people will take it or else it will be layoffs.
They are also offering a lump sum of one year for Cobra coverage.
Talk about a paper with no direction.
Sounds like something those cheapskates at the Bevo Corporation would do, doesn't it?
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:29 pm
by mr. pony
[quote="McClown27"]I hope Steve Blow takes it.[/quote]
Right on........
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:30 pm
by mr. pony
[quote="MrMustang1965]Sounds like something those cheapskates at the Bevo Corporation would do, doesn't it?
Right on .........
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:30 pm
by mr. pony
we bad.
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:23 pm
by ThadFilms
McClown27 wrote:I hope Steve Blow takes it.
What's wrong with Steve Blow?
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:26 pm
by M Street Stang
Chip Brown, the UT beat writer, is an SMU graduate.
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:39 pm
by ponyplayer
ThadFilms wrote:McClown27 wrote:I hope Steve Blow takes it.
What's wrong with Steve Blow?
was the movie "Blow" about him?...........................
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:47 pm
by RGV Pony
ponyplayer wrote:ThadFilms wrote:McClown27 wrote:I hope Steve Blow takes it.
What's wrong with Steve Blow?
was the movie "Blow" about him?...........................
any relation to Curtis Blow?
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:40 pm
by McClown27
ThadFilms wrote:McClown27 wrote:I hope Steve Blow takes it.
What's wrong with Steve Blow?
I haven't read him since I left Dallas. I feel he tries to be like Dave Barry, and I loathe the original. I just don't like anecdotal columns about urban/suburban life. I thought I would relate to that crap more when I was married, etc., but I just don't.
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:08 pm
by ThadFilms
M Street Stang wrote:Chip Brown, the UT beat writer, is an SMU graduate.
He's great too. Too bad he has to cover the Horns. But on the plus side, he does get to live in Austin.