Here are a few things that the FDA found while checking out the Pennsylvania plant that produces the liquid versions of children's Tylenol, Benadryl, and Zyrtec — all of which were recalled last week by manufacturer McNeil Consumer Healthcare: "Thick dust and grime covering certain equipment"! "A hole in the ceiling"! "Duct tape-covered pipes"! Also, "raw ingredients contaminated by an unspecified bacteria" and, perhaps most importantly, corporate knowledge of many of these conditions. Yum. Production at the suburban Philadelphia plant has been suspended while the cleaning crews get called in, which is probably for the best since the facility also makes adult-appropriate products. But there's a [...]

Today David Carr writes about how the Journal News (a suburban Westchester newspaper) essentially laid off all 288 of its staff and invited them to apply for the for the 218 or so jobs that remained after "restructuring." This is super nasty! But it's secretly and not-secretly going on all over. For instance, Johnson & Johnson recently did the same thing when it consolidated business units: they laid off a couple dozen senior vice presidents and invited them all to apply for the remaining, much-fewer jobs. This is obviously the best possible way to treat employees.