YLE’s long -time journalist Mari Pekkanen opens up from Yle.
Mari Pekkanen worked at the Jyväskylä World Rally. Petro hidden
Highly long -time journalist and familiar sound of rally radio Mari Pekkanen To decide on the Broadcasting Company of more than 18 years.
The solution is based on YLE’s change negotiations, which resulted in a drastically reduced staff and transferred to new positions in different locations.
Pekkanen’s new job would have required a move from Jyväskylä to Seinäjoki, but he decided not to take the offer.
He describes his departure as contradictory.
– I liked being general. I probably wouldn’t have been there for so long if I hadn’t liked it. At the same time, however, it is like it’s exciting to look at what life brings now when you leave Yle.
– Actually, even a little liberated, Pekkanen adds.
Change negotiations
Pekkanen is not familiar with the bitterness towards YLE, but he considers the change of change negotiations to be problematic.
– The annoyance is the biggest of how the change negotiations were handled and how people have been moved from one place to another without expressing any desire for their own.
Pekkanen posed at the Jari-Matti Latvala Museum in Tuuri. Tomi Hänninen / Chilipictures
Pekkanen sees that things could have been better handled.
According to him, the atmosphere is in many places gloomy among YLE employees.
– It is clearly noticeable that people are pretty bad. Sure, I can’t speak for others, but there has been such a message all over Finland that these have been such a change negotiations that it will certainly take the time, even years that these wounds have been scarred.
Pekkanen says that most employees know someone who has been dismissed, and many also know a person who has been reluctantly transferred to another place. According to him, this cannot not affect well -being at work.
Transfer to Seinäjoki
Yle offered Pekkanen a journalist’s seat in Seinäjoki, but he considered the move virtually impossible.
– My job description is a journalist. They gave me a notice period, six months to move to Seinäjoki. They expected me to be at work in Seinäjoki on 1 October.
– I have nothing against Seinäjoki or Ostrobothnians, but I simply have no networks there. I’d rather have moved in another direction, even in southeastern Finland and closer to the family.
The six -month transition time gave me time to consider the options.
– I was given six months to move on, that is, in practice, to think about what I could do other than to move to Seinäjoki, Pekkanen laughs.
New patterns
Pekkanen has already launched a new phase in his career. He has set up a limited liability company called Pekkas Day and intends to focus on, among other things, announcements and reports for motor sports events.
According to Pekkanen, a limited liability company has been established in all kinds of jobs.
– Almost every weekend there is some motor sports, so during the summer, you just work really well with motor racing.
In addition, negotiations with the new body are in the final stages.
– I can’t reveal yet, but I will certainly hear more about it in the fall.
– What we have been talking about in the negotiations now is pretty free hands and can do a lot of what you enjoy yourself. I don’t really come up with better, Pekkanen says.