New Owners, Gatehouse Media, Sends Mixed Messages
Pros
ThisWeek News is/was a subsidiary of the Dispatch Printing Co., friendly atmosphere, direct contact with supervision - in a helpful way. Insides Classified Sales not overly demanding to anyone with a work ethic. Pay structure a bit confusing but money to be made through commission each month (in addition to a regular base salary). -It was nice that at the end of the day, you were done - no taking work home. -Local management helpful but clearly confused like we were about the sudden merger.
Cons
- Newspaper industry has been a in flux for a while. Gatehouse Media intent seems to be use the print subscriber base of the Dispatch (and numerous magazine pubs) to prop up the business while indirectly creating an full in-house DIGITAL marketing agency. At least be upfront about it. We're not stupid. - The pool of print products we're to cross-sell into has grown too large for one to be effective. - Gatehouse has not upfront about about what positions are being eliminated, merged , etc. Got tired of coming in and each day someone's cubicle was empty. Yet the occupants of the offices along the walls seemed to remain. - No effort to upgrade or even replace the old aging office furniture. It;s as if the Lewis Center, OH location is where chairs for the organization went to die. - Having to use broken or old office supplies; or, simply having to buy your own in order to better organized.