Newspapers like this make people want to quit

I hate "ect"

It's not fucking "ect"

It's etc.

Short for Latin "et cetera"

Your management sucks and you're the ect-boy. May you swirl together in torment forever like the lustful in Dante's Inferno.

 

here's a quarter, kid.

Go buy a clue.

and bring back some coffee, you know how I like it, and sharpen those pencils, and hey, the paste pots need refilling.

Well? What are you standing around with your thumb up your ass for?

Time's a wastin'. Deadline will be here before you know it.

Hmmmm, now where was I? Oh yeah, Gumlegs in the fifth at Aqueduct. Lemme call Vinnie and put down a bob on that one.

 

This is a pretty standard practice in any line of work. Let's get the young kid to work for nothing and promise more down the road. Some companies deliver on that promise, some tell you to tkae a fucking walk if you don't like it. I say do the extra work and if you don't get the raise you want take the fucking walk. And go out like George Castanza. "I want people to say now that guy got canned!!"

 

This is the part of the story that confuses me because the writing is so disorganized. It almost seems like it was written by somebody with about a C level grasp of English (or similar to when you take a paragraph in Spanish and run it through a Spanish to English translator).

I hate to say it, but if your professional writing is similarily disorganized, your editor may just be trying to be nice and that you aren't going to get the promotion.

 

"It's early" doesn't work. It's just another way of saying "grammar doesn't matter to me."

 

Did your brain just click on or something?

I do use the "it's late" reasoning sometimes. That one seems perfectly legit.

 

shot - does a plain old, 'i just was really fucked up at the time,' work?

it usually works on my editor ... just looking for some board standards here.

 

"It's late" works ... "I was fucked up" works once.

"It's early" never works.