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tommangan	Post subject: Honk if you're unemployed Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:16 am
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 485 Location: San Jose, CA	Count me the latest casualty. Taking severance and heading back east to stay with wife's family. Read here if you're curious I know things are tough everywhere, but what they're doing to the Merc is best described as a public dismantling. Damn shame.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: Honk if you're unemployed Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:35 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	Honk.
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Heartodixie	Post subject: Re: Honk if you're unemployed Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:57 pm
Joined: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:15 am Posts: 1432 Location: Alabamer	Honk. Good for you, getting out before the ANG-ification of the Mercury News is complete. The Alameda Newpaper Group's consolidated copy desk in an office park in Pleasanton was the saddest newspaper thing I'd ever seen. Hurts my heart to see the Mercury News being forced into that model. It's the only paper I'm really sorry to see go to hell. Good luck! (And don't be in a hurry to get to N.C. if you don't have to. My only regret about leaving CA is that I only took three days for the drive to Alabama.)
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