Here’s a piece of good news: although Royal Caribbean’s profits nearly evaporated in the fourth quarter and management promised more cost cutting at its Thursday call with analysts, jobs at the Wichita call center appear safe for the time being.
Mike Semler, the center’s general manager, said the company cut 20 jobs last summer and that’s it for the foreseeable future. The center employs 550.
In all of the bad news surrounding the economy, generally, and my industry in particular, there appeared a tiny ray of (dare I say it) sunshine. A new report from Nielsen Co. showed that the nation’s top newspaper websites are seeing pretty good growth in readership, as is the Eagle’s website.
The catch, of course, is making enough money off of them.
You know times are tough when ticket scalpers are having trouble getting what they call value for Super Bowl tickets.
The economic crisis has hit the Super Bowl, according to this article, with premium ticket prices down 20 percent, parties eliminated and scaled back.
What’s next? Scalper layoffs?