{"id":41456,"date":"2020-02-29T01:44:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T01:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41456"},"modified":"2020-02-29T01:46:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T01:46:22","slug":"temporary-pay-cut-are-they-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41456","title":{"rendered":"Temporary pay cut? Are they serious?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MSM%20%23media%20%23TampaBayTimes%20%23AGNMedia&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/reportersnotebook-1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41332\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/reportersnotebook-1-2-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/reportersnotebook-1-2-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/reportersnotebook-1-2.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times has made an announcement likely prompted many of us who toiled in the craft of daily journalism to laugh out loud.<\/p>\n<p>The Times announced a &#8220;temporary&#8221; pay cut of 10 percent. Temporary? Yes. The times management vows to restore everyone&#8217;s pay in June.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I have been through a couple of these pay cuts. They weren&#8217;t announced as temporary by Morris Communications, the corporate owner of the paper where I worked at the time. I went through this agony twice, in addition to watching the company cease its corporate match of our retirement fund. Morris&#8217; high command made some bad business decisions and dished out punishment to those of us who had to live with the consequences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/2020\/02\/26\/tampa-bay-times-announces-temporary-pay-cut-for-full-time-staff\/?fbclid=IwAR0asIjC6YSXOEHtuFJQg1awpyJHJQXHsU7PiZRIjLnI8R8dtCNZsVNKbFg\">The Tampa Bay Times<\/a> brass says revenues are down. The newspaper intends to right the ship over the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with that. The media climate is changing under their feet. I wish them well. I want my former colleagues to be made whole.<\/p>\n<p>I just fear that the &#8220;temporary&#8221; pay cut will be nothing of the sort \u2026 unless &#8220;temporary&#8221; morphs into layoffs.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MSM%20%23media%20%23TampaBayTimes%20%23AGNMedia&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times has made an announcement likely prompted many of us who toiled in the craft of daily journalism to laugh out loud. The Times announced a &#8220;temporary&#8221; pay cut of 10 percent. Temporary? Yes. The times management vows to restore everyone&#8217;s pay in June. Sigh. Look, I have been through a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41456\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Temporary pay cut? 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