Yesterday was not a good day over at 200 South Parker Street in Tampa.
That of course is the home to TBO.com, WFLA-News Channel 8, and the Tampa Tribune - and yesterday all of those employees were rocked by the news that they will have to take 15 furloughed days for the second half of this year, as the media company continues to struggle.
15 days. That's three working weeks that employees will not get paid in the rest of 2011.
As you can imagine, the morale isn't going very strong, especially at the Trib. One employee says that John Schueler, president of the Florida Communications Group, had said earlier this year that if employees would have to cut back, it would only be in top management positions. But that is definitely not the case, as word went around the newsroom Thursday afternoon.
