the gawker media union

gawker is still totally fucked
[8:06:50 PM] Bagel: gawker's always been fucked
[8:06:56 PM] Bagel: fuck gawker
[8:07:05 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: i wonder if they've voted on that stupid ass union they've been trying to push yet
[8:08:00 PM] Bagel: the fuck?
[8:08:16 PM] Bagel: i dont ever come near to gawker shit so explain
[8:08:34 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: for some ridiculous bullshit reason, gawker media dudes are trying to form a union
[8:08:48 PM] Bagel: like a workers' union?
[8:08:52 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: i still don't fully know why, as the union in question that they'd form would be absolutely fucking meaningless
[8:08:55 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: uh yeah i think so
[8:09:29 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: http://gawker.com/why-weve-decided-to-organize-1698246231
http://gawker.com/how-were-voting-on-the-union-and-why-1707427120
http://maxread.kinja.com/gawker-media-staffer-union-comments-indexed-1707545946
[8:09:36 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: the trick is, their "union" was unannounced
[8:09:47 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: most of gawker media found out the same way gawker readers did
[8:09:53 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: which was through http://gawker.com/why-weve-decided-to-organize-1698246231
[8:09:59 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: or http://gawker.com/how-were-voting-on-the-union-and-why-1707427120
[8:10:41 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: so the whole shebang has been an unorganized clusterfuck since a good half of gawker's journos and staff at the minimum havent been around for any of the talks or organizing of the actual union bit
[8:11:16 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: there's rumblings in the /gghq/ crowd that the union might be a direct result of the boycotting and general beatdown that /gghq/ put on gawker over the course of the past few months
[8:11:47 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: because gawker's had a lot of adless days, since most of their sponsors and advertisers have either pulled out or no longer run ads on gawker media sites
[8:11:54 PM] Bagel: why the fuck do you keep up on this retarded gamergate shit
[8:12:12 PM] Bagel: i still dont understand what it is or what its about but its clear that its not worth caring about
[8:12:15 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: cuz it's fucking hilarious
[8:13:04 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: but yeah
[8:13:27 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: gamergate pretty badly fucked gawker media's shit and i dont think a single of the big advertisers gawker used to have running ads do so anymore
[8:13:45 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: so gawker's been in deep shit recently
[8:14:24 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: on top of that gawker also has a currently ongoing lawsuit between some of its interns because it exploited them and made them do professional work for no pay which is against the law
[8:14:31 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: class action lawsuit, evidently
[8:14:46 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: so this whole "union" thing is most likely because they're getting their shit kicked in from about every possible angle right now
[8:15:13 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: unfortunately, they managed to fuck that up too, so basically it's all been a gigantic trainwreck and that's the story of the currently ongoing gawker unionization attempt
[8:15:53 PM] patriotic appaloosa horse: i wouldnt be too surprised if gawker has to lay a few people off in the coming months

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they finally voted to unionize
http://gawker.com/gawker-media-votes-to-unionize-1708892974

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