COVERING Election Day

A medal? No, but pizza would be nice. But from some of the anecdotes on here, management doesn't even want to respect the sports folks with that.

 

Yeah, it seems to be forgotten that this is what started all the shit. Sports isn't "better" at handling deadlines, but they shouldn't be treated like second-class citizens, either.

 

You feel disrespected by people who don't understand what you do? How hard you work?

 

Because games are a little less important than murders, I'd presume. Of course,they think that games are all the sports guys deal with.

 

So you're upset by peers who don't care to understand exactly what it is you do?

 

I've worked news and sports. Election night and Friday night both have their challenges. I'm not sure if one is easier or harder than another. Work is work to me. At my former paper, the sports guys were allowed to partake in pizza as a bribe to get our pages out early. Yesterday was my day off, so not sure what happened at my new workplace.

The only time I was annoyed by Election Night Pizza was my first year on news side, when the weirdos at my former paper ordered Thai food. Nasty stuff, stank up the whole newsroom. (Plus, we had one who was always babbling about gluten-free, as if we hadn't heard her the other 3,000 times the newsroom folks grabbed lunch together.) Anyway, I took my usual dinner break at the local pizza place and got the buffet.

 

It's also been my experience that deadline gets pushed back on Election Night. Why would that be necessary if the workloads between news and sports are the same?

 

Except I do understand what they do because I've done it. Many nights, without longer deadlines or pizza or the congratulatory email from the brass.

 

Your lack of understanding is astounding. The great majority of all deadlines that are pushed back (like 95 percent) are for Sports. Why can't sports get all its work done faster on those nights?

 

Because some of the outcomes aren't decided until midnight and it would be nice to get those results in the paper.

You're doing a great job of illustrating why exactly someone might think sports is the toy department.

 

Sports siders get congratulatory emails or personal congratulations often when they've done a good job.

 

This sums up the thread's current veer: