Tropical Storm/Hurricane Fay: A real inconvenience
By William M. Hartnett on Aug 16, 2008 in featured, weather
Tropical Storm Fay, likely to become Hurricane Fay, couldn’t be headed toward Florida at a more inconvenient time. Not only are most South Florida schools scheduled to start Monday, but my employer is scheduled to begin a relatively small number of layoffs, too. Relative to the nearly 300 employees who took buyouts and worked their final day last week, anyway. “Less than a dozen” people will be laid off in the newsroom, we’re told. Then there was the fun news, also last week, that our corporate overlords are taking what certainly appears to be but the first step toward an eventual complete exit from the newspaper business. So, yeah, bad timing, Fay, really bad timing.
As always, head to Stormpulse for all your hurricane tracking needs. It’s good enough for The Palm Beach Post and the Orlando Sentinel, among a growing list of others, so it should be good enough for you, too, pal.
Rani | Aug 18, 2008 | Reply
Hurricanes are so inconsiderate.
William M. Hartnett | Aug 19, 2008 | Reply
I know, right? I mean, we’ve got layoffs to get to down here.