…while the getting out is good: Tim Micklos, director of advertising, and long-time production manager Mary Bradford, both quit last week. Micklos was a recent hire from Las Vegas; Bradford had been at the paper for a decade.

Weekly staffers tell us Miklos is leaving for personals reasons and that Bradford is leaving to go to the soon-to-launch Seattle Metropolitan, the new glossy city magazine that’s attracting ex-Weekly staffers like, oh, 100 Best Dentist issues attract ads from dentists. Seattle Metropolitan has hired a slew of former and current Seattle Weekly staffers. Judging by the staff the new mag is pulling together, it will no doubt be going after Seattle Weekly readers and advertisers.

Many weekly staffers have been looking for jobs elsewhere since the paper—along with the rest of the Village Voice Media—was sold off to the Phoenix-based New Times chain, a deal that’s expected to close at the end of the month. Some outgoing staffers feel that the Weekly will change dramatically with the new ownership and that there will be mass firings.

But will there be anyone left at the Weekly for its new owners to fire?

Seattle Metropolitan is clearly taking advantage of the low morale at the Weekly when it comes to staffers. If this new mag can also exploit the confusion in the market place over the Weekly’s identity (and survival), it will deliver more painful blows to the already bloody paper.

(I heard about this on Friday, when I got a mysterious email from one “Terry Coe.” Not “the” Terry Coe, SW’s publisher, but someone who mailed me from an anonymous email account. Gee, sounds like morale ain’t so good at Seattle’s smaller weekly newspaper.)