Cursing in the newsroom

News-side will never give us the credit we deserve for being good on deadline.

And just as assuredly, we will never give news-side the credit it deserves for being able to handle it when the situation arises.

We could watch them handle it for hours, and say without batting an eye, "Look at them shitting all over themselves."

 

Fuck all y'all.

 

The fuck?

 

Many people on new side don't know how to handle consistent deadline pressure.

 

What fucking word didn't you fucking understand, Doc? The fuck, I'm going to fucking repeat myself because you're goddamned deaf?

 

Well-fucking-played.

 

que fuq'ue?

 

A couple months ago, the techs here installed XP on comps that were considered outdated in 1948. Since then, the machines have crashed daily and nightly and ever-so-rightly.

We get mad, we call the techs. The techs either straggle over or they don't answer the phone. The natives become restless and drag the techs to the machines.

Over the weekend, the techs at my soon-to-be ex-shop put stickies on every computer in the newsroom that read:

Monday evening, a machine crashes. A coworker calls the help desk several times. After 20 minutes, a tech picks up the phone, sighs, and said, "Help desk. How can I help you?"

Coworker said that his machine crapped out and needs help getting it restarted. The tech asked, "Did you e-mail us?"

The coworker took a deep breath and said, "How the fuck am I suppposed to fucking e-mail you when my fucking computer just fucking crashed and I cannot get it re-fucking-started?"

 

I'm holding my sweet card in the never ending NASCAR thread, but here I'll say I think late model dirt racing is fucking awesome!

 

And many people on sports side wouldn't know how to handle a story if it didn't just play out in front of them while they emptied a bag of chips drinking a Coke. What's your point, Boots? As far as I'm concerned I'm always on deadline, be it 8 a.m., 5 p.m. or 11 p.m. It's called time management.

 

How in the FUCK did this thread get to be 11 pages long?

That's some shit I never would have predicted...

 

And it's stayed civil, too.