Part of me wonders if I’d stayed in New York, working for Simon & Schuster, whether I’d be feeling the publishing crunch like some people are these days. I loved working there, but there’s no guarantee that I’d still have a job right now. Especially considering news posts like this one:
Yesterday is now apparently being called “Black Wednesday” in publishing circles for all the job cuts that happened. What…did all the headers of the publishing companies get together over lunch and decide this one day was when it all needed to go down? That if people got laid off together, they’d at least be able to commiserate over their lunch breaks?
To any of my past coworkers and friends out that way, drop me a line if you need some support. Probably doesn’t help that December is known as the notorious “slow” month of the industry, either.
Anyone smilin’? Hit us up with some good news to balance this out.
Anyone smilin’? Hit us up with some good news to balance this out.
Um…I have a chocolate bar and don’t have to go to work today?
😀
So big a lay-off spree, yet there wasn’t much mention of it in the more vocal news outlets.
Got enough chocolate bars for the whole class, Goblin?
And yea, Geoff. Our only hope is that people will start to notice when they run out of books to read. Or maybe it won’t get quite that dire, will it?
Roger Ebert did a blog on another arena that’s being affected, newspapers.
Movie critics are being laid off or given “the golden handshake” left and right.
Might be callous of me, but I can’t say I’ll weep over the job loss of folks I don’t really listen to anyways.