“The Office” but in a dying newsroom

None of the newsrooms I worked had a Pam.

 

The ones I worked in ALWAYS had both the fresh from J-school reporters/copy editors who were stunning, and the fresh from divorce types. Sorry garrow.

 

Always hilarious when the features department – usually filled with white-bread bookworms, and most of them over 40 – would do its annual centerpiece story on the currently hip slang all the youngsters are slingin' around on the streets.

And most of these words and phrases would be outdated by five or 10 years. You down with my rap, bro?

 

We had a business clerk who was a total 6, looked a lot – A LOT – like Cindy Crawford.

She left the paper after a couple of years to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles.

I found her listed on IMDb in two obscure movies and a one-off appearance in a TV series, all from years ago, so she never made it bigly. But she got bigly points for following her dream. ... Major loss for us boys in the newsroom, though. We were all just crushed when she left.

 

Florida sheriffs. I need say no more.

Did you see that kid? He was skibidi toilet, when I thought he had rizz. The teacher called him
A beta and said he was going to Ohio.

 

Thanks. I sent this over to Features, and it's going on D1 tomorrow.

 

my 5 year old son named the pet hamster skibidi toilet. when he learns to read, I'll get him a subscription

 

Sounds a lot like "The Paper."

 

Funny coincidence, but I was watching The Office reruns tonight and they had the episode when a bat comes out of the ceiling and Dwight catches it by putting a garbage bag over Meredith’s head.

At the papers I’ve worked, we’ve had bats, birds and mice paying visits to our newsroom. So maybe a sequel at a newspaper may work?

 

A rat with a tail as big around as a Big Chief pencil will make a guest appearance.

 

I was going to include the copy desker who needed the special chair and vowed death on anyone who used it, moved it or adjusted it - but that movie nailed so many things.

 

The attractive-ish women were always hired in sales at the papers I worked at.