In the — entirely appropriate — focus on people who are losing their jobs, one area that’s being ignored are the people who aren’t.
In many cases, companies are cutting people, but not production, leaving the people still employed to pick up the slack. Is that happening to you? Tell me about it, making it clear if you want your name to be withheld.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins