...And Cancel Christmas!

I LAST CHECKED my email on a free wi-fi connection at the Orlando International Airport at about noon today. A few things here and there, send, forward, delete -- the usual. I just got in the door (Hey, it's fucking winter!) and there were thirteen messages in my Dead Things Mailbox.

That, chickens, is NEVER a good thing.

The emails were multiples, of course. In the wake of last week's catastrophic Global layoff of over 500 people, both CTV and Corus today sent out all-staff memos announcing hiring freezes, restrictions on travel, forensic examination of all expenses that would make David Caruso blush, and a well of other draconian pronouncements.

The soft ad market, she ith a bitch mistress, shurely...

My favorite part of the CORUS memo was the following:

All company supported Christmas parties are cancelled for this year

Are there no workhouses?

CTV's having a big staff town hall tomorrow to gloom and doom a little further.

Welcome to the suck, kids. Fa la la la la.