Comments on: En route to bankruptcy, Freedom execs pocketed $2.6M in bonuses

By: tarheelreporter

tarheelreporter — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:12:55 +0000

I knew Segal when he was stumbling around in North Carolina, where he lacked the guts to enforce company edicts handed down from on high. From his earliest days, when he grinned his way through New Bern, to his tenure in Gastonia, Segal proved that he was a mere lightweight.
An old North Carolina legislator remembered Segal in the news executives' brief period of getting “real experience” as a reporter. The young reporter, said the old pol, frequently made mistakes and never understood the legislative process. “He was in over his head, even then,” the old lawmaker said. '
Time has done nothing to change that.

By: Cheeks

Cheeks — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:41:45 +0000

It's not just in the Phoenix Area! It's all over!

By: Cheeks

Cheeks — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:33:04 +0000

More than likely Roberta will go to Ahwatukee along with Rick but Forcey will go back to Ohio to his nice corporate job. =) Nice to know somethings never change.

By: FreeofFreedom

FreeofFreedom — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:38:23 +0000

That's just what is happening in Yuma.
A new magazine is kicking serious Freedom butt. All the sales reps have to say is "I'm not with The Sun." and they get clients. Seriously. They only have to be moral, ethical and true to their clients and just wait for the (Yuma) Sun to set.
The goal is to become Yuma's news weekly magazine and it's happening fast.

Oh, and as far as covenants of non-competition; talk to an attorney. Courts are more in favor of the individual right to work unless there is good cause to enforce a non-compete. Entry level employees don't have proprietary info so what's the harm in allowing them to work elsewhere or start their own company?
A recent version said the employee could not work for a similar business "within the area they provided services." Not the subscription area. Not a set mile radius. Employees provide services in a 10'x10' cubicle. Unless you work for the competition within that cubicle there's no conflict.
So die with a little dignity, Freedom. If you have any left.

By: Name

Name — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:31 +0000

I guess its easy standing up and telling people that they no longer have a job when you have just pocketed their salaries. Company execs are going to burn in hell for the way they have treated people. Benefit enrollment is coming up and the prices have went up so we have lost more than 5%, NICE JOB EXECS you really know how to SCREW employees while you are laughing all the way to the bank. Bonuses are for people who do GREAT jobs, but once again this is the Freedom way, they never did think like most corporations. Its coming up on yr end, I betcha your all going to get another one, while most of us little people are scraping to get by and buy Christmas. I sure hope you can sleep at night…..

By: Larry Offner

Larry Offner — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:30:02 +0000

Greed is God. How much is enough? More. The mantra of 21st century corporatism.

By: wendy kenney @23Kazoos

wendy kenney @23Kazoos — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:51:21 +0000

Nick, if you did a survey of all of the major corporations in the Phoenix metro area, you would see that this practice is widespread in the good old boy network.

By: communitypaperboy

communitypaperboy — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:24:13 +0000

Secession!

Cross the street and compete. The equipment where you work must be worth something? : ) Hey Freedom, here's your non-compete. No doubt the responders here are news people like myself. We bleed ink. Too bad we can't feed ink to the Freedom execs.

former Grunt

By: communitypaperboy

communitypaperboy — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:16:06 +0000

To all Freedom slaves (ox⋅y⋅mo⋅ron)

Secession, just do it! The equipment must be worth something? : )

Former Grunt

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:19:51 +0000

Like I always tell my kids: Never trust management.