Go ahead and blow a gasket...I don't really care

Easy there Hoss. All I'm suggesting is that he look two weeks ahead on the calendar, and when he sees a day like this coming -- even if he hadn't had a writer call out sick, this would have been a hell of a day -- let those above him that last-second stuff on that day is not reasonable and that if they want anything else out of him in the following day's paper, it's going to have to be done in advance. That's a way to head off the one last bit of stress that came with the day.

And please, do not construe this as criticism. It's not meant that way at all. I don't think and would not want to imply that this situation was his fault. It's management's job to know what's going on in their newsroom.

 

FWIW, I wrote six bylined stories and laid out a full four-page, largely ad-free paper and a full two-page, entirely ad-free paper in about nine hours between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

Love those days though. They get the blood pumping.

 

I don't, because quality suffers.

 

This is a great quote. Kudos to wise old man. It's incredibly true.

 

Yes, Stitch is spot on. The days when I can focus on one or two stories, the pages are crisp, well-designed and edited thoroughly. The days when I have 4-5 bylines going, it gets rushed and is all about throwing info on the page...it leads to basic design and a typo or two always seems to find it's way through.

Unfortunately, the latter is becoming more normal nowadays. Ughh!!!!