I love your comments but you are also spot on, JP should sell off the business that they don’t seem to give a hoot about anyway, give the top dogs their bit (cos that’s all it will be by the time they’re finished, a bit) and let the loyal, dedicated employees that are still left standing pick up the pieces and build the company back up for a boss who does care about the newspapers and has experience working in the newspaper industry instead of shipping the jobs off to Sheffield (which has been a joke), Spain and now India (another complete insult to the existing artists department).

You might call the dead wood, Noonetoknow, but I call them colleagues.

Keep it local as you so often promote JP and give the Newspapers that are left a chance to survive.

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Would you like me to sub your pieces before they go in? You know, do things like punctuate, check spellings and make sure sentences actually make sense? It might save you some embarrassment in the future. Oh, I forgot, the people who do that are just ‘dead wood’ and JP doesn’t need them.

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JP may be getting a constant battering for the inept way in which its management has run the company over the past five-seven years. It has laden the firm with debt which is now killing it, its share price has plummented from £5 to 5p and they are responding by getting rid of some of their most experienced journalists like David Todd and Paul Licence. Oh sorry, the dead wood apparently.

The management are simples.

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Deal with it! it’s life. I’m not excited about anyone losing their job but it clear as mud that industry change is leading to job losses. Couple that with the huge debt pile and then it’s inevitable people will have to go.

I just can’t stand the constant battering JP gets. They either cut people loose and move with the times and survive and that means many people will still have jobs or the keep everyone in a job and end up going to the wall. JP is a business and at the end of the day they need to be profitable, clear the debt and survive. simples!

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How nice to know that you think that human beings with families and responsibilities are merely ‘dead wood’ to be cleared out. Or out! out! out! as you so strangely put it. Are you by any chance getting excited at the thought of others losing their jobs?

Judging by your lack of humanity and your poor standards of literacy I would take a guess that you are either one of the management axemen yourself or you have attached yourself so far up their anuses that you think you’ll be safe forever. I can only hope that karma exists in your case.

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great name, you suit it

JP are doing their best to get out of the mess created by other who have now moved on. I get the impression that you all think that every employee that works for JP is 100 worth their salt? sorry to tell you but there was and is a hell of a lot of dead wood and it’s being cleared out! out! out!! JP will be a better place to work in the not so distant future once this has been achieved.

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For every worker thrown onto the jolly old scrapheap here in dear Blighty, there’s a Spanish chappy landing a new job designing templates. Wotwot!

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I cannot think of many other businesses in the UK were management failed so abjectly to develop a strategy for dealing with a rapidly changing market.

They fooled us when times were easy and revenue basically fell off the trees. When the wind changed and there was a blindingly-obvious need for innovation and adaptation they were found to be asleep at the wheel.

Now it’s too late, that boat has sailed; yet the Good Old Boys are still there and still perfoming the one trick they know by heart – making journalists redundant.

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This is what we have to look forward to in Leeds then, I guess. Those who keep their jobs on the production side in the current cull won’t have them long! Expect a further round of job cuts in September.

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