tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514745.post6279397231532580874..comments2023-12-31T06:41:45.412-08:00Comments on Gary Robert Scott: Reporters, editors down; audience development managers upGary Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05164233287474327699noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514745.post-86920225617091549112010-07-19T22:03:30.361-07:002010-07-19T22:03:30.361-07:00Let me give you an answer: Yes.
Your company is w...Let me give you an answer: Yes.<br /><br />Your company is waiting for you to get fed up and get another job. Then they will close out your position and create a new position that will start many thousands of dollars less per annum. <br /><br />You do not stand a chance of getting a promotion if someone above you leaves your department. <br /><br />They will hire someone from outside who they'll get to work for one-half to two-thirds of the old starting wage.<br /><br />How can they do that? They completely close the position you thought you were applying for and reopen it as a "new position" and at a "new salary". That "new salary" will probably been even less than you're making now at your current position.<br /><br />And if you are unfortunate enough to want a lateral transfer to a re-assigned position don't be shocked if they tell you that you'll have to take a 20 to 30-percent pay cut! <br /><br />This is the new trend. <br /><br />Remember how they used to take weeks or months to advertise and interview and screen for a position? They now have a very dirty and very mean way of fast-tracking their previously bogged down bureaucracy. <br /><br />They are just going to wait you out by making every possibility for upward movement the ugliest experience you may ever have had nightmares about.<br /><br />Welcome to Recession Part Deux!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514745.post-57128227460236091492010-07-16T16:42:36.074-07:002010-07-16T16:42:36.074-07:00Are editorial baseline salaries shrinking dramatic...Are editorial baseline salaries shrinking dramatically?<br /><br />Say, for instance, a Managing Editor leaves his or her position. The company closes that position and its old starting salary for that job. Then the company re-opens the same job as a "new" position and sets the starting salary $10,000 less than the 'previous' position.<br /><br />You could work a similar formula all the way down the line to reporters and office assistants. <br /><br />Imagine new reporter positions starting at minimum wage?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com