Re: market change due to
By: Ogg to Arelor on Tue Sep 16 2025 03:32 am

Now, I am revisiting ads, but in community groups like the
local theater that puts out a nice programme magazine that is
available at every show and in a variety of places in town. I
think that reaches out to the tourists and locals that I seek
better than an occassional ad in the paper anyway.

Yeah, there are still some cheap venues that can pay themselves. There used to be a bakery near my workplace in which they wrapped the cakes with paper decorated with advertisements. The advertisement company provided the paper for free to the bakery so campaigns were extremely cheap. I doubt they were extremely effective, but if they were inexpensive enough *maybe* they could be worth it.


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Although layoffs are somewhat depressing, I also find it a little
humorous in a weird way that a lot of tech companies have layoffs
fairly often, and then hire people later for other projects. Companies always like to have new & different projects to work on so they can
stay in business, but rather than keep employees, they tend to have layoffs and hire different people instead.

Contractors are cheaper, and aren't laid off, you just don't extend
their contract. I've worked in some environments that were
project-heavy and they people were used to having their contracts end,
go do something else, then come back in 6 months to work on a new
project, same teams, same desk.

My worst layoff story - I worked at Macromedia back in the 90s and left
in 1997. They started a move from full-spectrum multimedia authoring
tools to All Internet, All the Time. I was there when they bought the
company that became Flash, that was the beginning of the change.

When I was there, we had 400 employees and a normal organizational
structure. A new CEO brought in duplicate executives (imagine having a
VP of sales AND a VP of revenues) until the redundant executives left.

The company ballooned to 1800 employees, then when the .com bubble
burst, they began massive layoffs. The company dropped to 800
employees, 80 of which were VP level. One Tenth of the company was a
VP!

Layoffs for thee but not for me, indeed.



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