{"id":32382,"date":"2012-12-14T05:16:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32382"},"modified":"2012-12-13T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T23:20:00","slug":"inhuman-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32382","title":{"rendered":"Inhuman Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news: \u00a0Management at the KC Star is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/two-kansas-city-star-reporters-told-choose-who-gets-sacked-1C7573609\">asking two employees to decide which among the two will be laid off<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You could call it the \u201cHunger Games\u201d approach to layoffs \u2013 one that\u2019s getting a big thumbs-down from workplace experts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hunger schmunger. \u00a0I call it the &#8220;Michael Scott&#8221; approach.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Kansas City Star recently told two of its journalists, Karen Dillon and Dawn Bormann, that only one of them could keep her job &#8212; and the employees themselves would have to decide who should leave the company, according to the media blog JimRomenesko.com.<\/p>\n<p>Dillion confirmed the report in an e-mail to NBC News, but did not provide any more details. The investigative reporter has worked for the Kansas City Star since 1991, according to her LinkedIn profile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The good news?<\/p>\n<p>Well, there really isn&#8217;t any. \u00a0Although the idea that yet another left-toady publisher is circling the drain is probably a nice consolation prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news: \u00a0Management at the KC Star is asking two employees to decide which among the two will be laid off: You could call it the \u201cHunger Games\u201d approach to layoffs \u2013 one that\u2019s getting a big thumbs-down from workplace experts. Hunger schmunger. \u00a0I call it the &#8220;Michael Scott&#8221; approach. The Kansas City Star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32384,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382\/revisions\/32384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}