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• I’m an HR guy and nobody in HR likes to “preside” over mass lay-offs. It’s the horrible aspect of our business but one that needs to be done. Especially with an economic recession. Kiko Washington is an OK guy. A mutual acquaintance told me that he was just “sick about” eliminating positions when he got the order from the top brass to do so.

  However, he was hardly alone in eliminating positions. Nearly every industry across the country had to eliminate positions.

  Comment by John H — Wednesday September 16, 2009 @ 2:33pm PST  Reply to this post

• Not surprising.The big bossmen all love a guy willing to do the dirty work for them.

  Comment by redmenace — Wednesday September 16, 2009 @ 3:46pm PST  Reply to this post

• how’s that bully pulpit you jerk? i bet you get 500 comments on this you wouldn’t approve

  Comment by you are an idiot — Thursday September 17, 2009 @ 9:19am PST  Reply to this post

• Eck – in such poor taste to advance on the bodies of others and announce within the same fiscal year – how does one justify if budgetary/econ crisis is to blame? Resourceful? Human? – they are acting as the recipients of the bale out money did … sometimes business judgements whether in poor taste and judgement or not, should just be put on reserve for a while

  Comment by equalsmc2 — Thursday September 17, 2009 @ 12:45pm PST  Reply to this post

• John H – you’re just another HR flack that has no reason to have a job (you do “Job Justification”, like all the other HR’s).

  LET’S GET THIS STRAIGHT: TIME-WARNER HAD ONE OF ITS BEST YEARS. I work here, and I can tell you positively: it didn’t NEED to fire anyone…lay off workers/crews. I’m going to repeat that: THEY DIDN’T NEED TO FIRE ANYBODY.

  The reason they did is that all the other studios were going that route, and a few assholes at the top (I’ll let you guess their names, and boy, it’s easy) decided, “Hey! Now we can dump those creeps with seniority; now we can ditch those suits we don’t like with the extra-big, extra-long contracts!” And, fellow readers, they did.

  Back to the desperately needed HR departments (both inside & outsourced)…. ASK AROUND THE STUDIO to see what the people who work there really think of these morons.
  How many times have departments needed to hire staff and the HR cretins would send in people they “thought were nice ‘n qualified” but in reality were eminently unqualified & unsuited for the job. These HR flacks never did a decent bit of research into what genuine qualifications are REALLY needed for a specific job – and I mean real-world qualifications and temperament (through which they’d fit in with the culture of a particular department.) I work at Time-Warner, and Jesus! – and how often did they waste our time by sending us who were just dreadful.

  Anyway – HR people are the dregs. They’re happy ax-murderers. They’re pink-slip smilers and bottom feeders dressed up in ties, which equal what Lewis Black calls: “those little shits.”

  Kiko Washington is one of those. And as in real-life Hollywood, the bastards get promoted. Maybe Entourage will do an episode on Kiko and call it “The Degenerate Who Smiled”.

  Comment by Still InTheOffice — Thursday September 17, 2009 @ 1:30pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Yeah, Entourage is a Warner Bros. show however…

    Comment by Entourage??? — Friday October 2, 2009 @ 3:50pm PST  Reply to this post

• I’m one of the laid off TW employee’s who have yet to find employment. It’s been 15 months…enough said!

  Comment by Precious Commodity — Saturday September 19, 2009 @ 4:29pm PST  Reply to this post