One of the worst days of my life

Pics or GTFO.

We'll do without the evidence in this case, though, thanks. :-X

 

Young man, one of the worst days of my life came when, a year into a 14-month-long period of unemployment, almost down to my last few dollars, I applied for but didn't get a job for which I thought I had strong qualifications.

Your job.


(dramatic pause)


I got over it.

Have a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, a fruitful bowl coverage season -- and come back and tell us when you first realize you haven't thought about this in weeks.

Among other things, be grateful that, unlike many who share your passion for this business, you have a steady job in this profession. It could be a heck of a lot worse, my man.

You'll be fine.

 

"Listen to him, Flounder, he's in pre-med!"

(Hope all is well, JD.)

 

Pre-soak.




(And yes, I'm doing fine, Jesus. I hope you are too.)

 

Typed DEATH NOTICES over BIRTH NOTICES.

You've got nothing.

 

I once said in a hed that someone was guilty instead of innocent. Bigger oops than yours, Aaron. Try harder

 

Typo stuff happens and doesn't really stick in my memory -- feel bad for a day or a week and move on. Blown calls on news value, those I remember. The worst was badly misplaying Don Rogers' lethal cocaine overdose shortly after Len Bias died. Nearly half my life ago, and I can remember my conversation with my boss the next day. Not that I really needed to be told I'd screwed up.

Funny shit that happened to other people:

A-1 telling all our readers to set their clocks back an hour instead of ahead.

All the wrong lottery numbers.

Big feature on homeless women skedded for A-1, but they forgot to assign art, so someone grabbed file art from the library. But the woman pushing the shopping cart filled with crap was a rich lady from the burbs, just not a great dresser, out collecting for Catholic Charities. Caption was something about "a typical bag lady roaming the city's streets."

 

Oh, yeah -- and in the folios on every page of the paper on Jan. 1, the wrong year. We had to replate every page, including classifieds, for the second edition.

 

Wrong lottery numbers would be bad.

 

Not my mistake, but it happened here. We had an Olympic preview tab that included the times for the TV coverage. Truthfully, we were surprised that the designer actually knew to subtract 3 hours from the EST listings for our purposes. But the dude didn't know the local NBC affiliate was pushing back everything 30 minutes for a locally produced preview show. So all the times were a half-hour off. They shitcanned the whole press run and did it over. The dude didn't get fired, but he was on his good behavior for quite awhile afterward.

 

Thought he was in pre-law?

 

What's the difference?