Layoffs All Over

Posted on March 5th, 2009 3:59pm by Nancy Nichols
Filed under hold on to your effin hat

You may have read on FrontBurner that we laid off 12 people from our staff today. Makes me sad. Now comes word from a Fort Worth Disher:

Don’t know if you’ve heard, but Amy Culbertson, food editor of the Star-Telegram, was laid off today.

It’s a really sad day to be a writer. I’m going face down in a sous vide martini. Bye.

6 comments

  1. Amy, your voice will be missed. I wish you well. And the Star-Telegram just gave me another big reason not to bother looking at it, or its absolutely hopeless Web site.

    @ 4:46 pm on March 5, 2009

  2. Oh no! How awful.

    @ 5:54 pm on March 5, 2009

  3. A sous vide martini? My 8th glass of Dynamite Merlot pales by comparison. Wish I had bought tickets for SideDish Supper Club’s Sous Vide evening evening with Chef Chris Ward at the Mercury Grill (nice shameless plug, eh?).

    If you have a spare one, please notify your old marketing art director. XOXO

    @ 7:37 pm on March 5, 2009

  4. Maybe we should consider going to Mexico and joining the cartel – from all reports appears they have a contant need for emploment – can only imagine what their HR Dept. would be like!!! Then, again, maybe I can’t!

    @ 9:30 am on March 6, 2009

  5. God bless everyone at ‘D’ who were forced to make these beyond-difficult decisions, who lost their jobs and feel lost and alone. This is turf I know from the inside out. Never forget that while there’s life and health, there’s hope and happiness ahead. Sooner or later. God bless all concerned.

    @ 11:11 am on March 6, 2009

  6. Its been a rough couple of years for writers, at least thats how I feel watching my favorite ones be laid off.

    @ 3:45 pm on March 7, 2009