Grim tales from Gupta TV - 24 Nov 2014By Rod BakerIt seems life might be a bit rough for those who work at television station ANN7... the Sunday Times' Gabi Mbele reports on allegations of no gum chewing, no sickbay, no cars - and if you fail to clock in on time, your salary will be docked... It's grim times and grievances at ANN7, it seems. Meanwhile, Eskom continues to blight our best efforts to avoid tripping over the cat after nightfall, but far more important, to make an honest living... Why? Well, SA's retailers are facing a bleak festive season, thanks to the threat posed by Eskom blackouts. So it could be a case of an Xmas that will be blighted for so many retailers. What makes it even worse - as if blackouts aren't bad enough - is that it seems that despite a schedule of outages, there's a reasonable chance that there will be blackouts at times not listed on the schedule - so it's difficult to plan around them. Leigh Andrews reports on what Jeremy Sampson's going to do after leaving Interbrand and Matthew Arnold looks at three areas of User Experience Design you need to get right. | Rod Baker
Rod Baker is Content Director at Bizcommunity.com. A journalist since before computers, he worked on a wide range of magazines and, in his youth, rose through the ranks from being a lowly and abused sub-editor, to a high and still abused editor and publisher. He has been editor and publisher of a number of magazines, as well as a newspaper. He has edited many books, and written a number too. Email him at moc.ytinummoczib@dor. |
