Friday, June 20, 2008

Shockwaves

You could have knocked me over with a feather.

I met Leslie at Starbuck’s in the WTC atrium, where she broke the news-—dmg World Media (the company who bought George Little Management last fall) announced the layoff of a huge portion of the GLM staff this morning. The estimate I later heard was one third of the White Plains operation, but that’s unsubstantiated.

Needless to say, I’ve already sent emails to my “near and dear” in New York, with hopes I’ll hear back from each of them.

Sure, it’s to be expected when a company the size of dmg buys someone like GLM, but still.... Sounds like a lot of people are going to have one lousy weekend.

My thoughts are with you guys...hang in, hang on.