Quick parent rant

actually, they appreciated the copy/photos.

again, people who didn't care about quality nor content.

 

and secret santa time?

are there newsrooms that actually take part in that shit?

 

Thanks for the luck, KYsportswriter. Oh, don't know how long you've been writing sports in KY, but I juged their better newspaper awards the past two years. I hope I gave you an award. I was basically picking out names and designs I liked when judging. I mean, they hand you a friggin stack of papers and say read all of these in like six hours, and pick out your top three in every category. There was no friggin way.

On my plans, I'm looking forward to collecting unemployment and sitting on my ass, picking up strange women at bars, getting inebriated and going to prep sporting events and yelling at the parents who make asses out of themselves.

I may do some freelancing while preparing for grad school. That'll be great, going back to the university at age 39, hanging out with a lot of 20somethings. Can't wait!

I have a buddy in PR at a pharmaceutical sales company, and he says they need help. Might do that, it pays a shitload, but I've done PR before and I hate being phoney. I also hate it when you go to your PR job on a normal day and your boss says, "good morning, how are you?"

"Fine."

"Just fine?"

"Yeah, I'm okay."

"Just okay?....uh, in this department, we're always doing great, or wonderful. We're always happy and smiling because our company is so great and wonderful, and we're saving lives and/or people benefit from the services and/or products we provide."

the devils!

 

We have a pretty good number of students in their late 30s in our program. Don't sweat it. Grad school is fun.


Well, it's better than PR...

 

A player's mother who works in the press room was pissed at the column I wrote about the losing football team and how they have to desire to play much less win and that some had quit by October. In particular, she had told me in front of my editor that her kid didn't care if she went to games because "we'll lose anyway." So in the column, I point out that it's no wonder they can't win.

So pissed off mom who works in the press room goes to the ME. Brace yourselves.

I'm now expected to apologize to her, and I'm not allowed to write analysis anymore (he also took the opportunity to tell me that a few of my features have been "OK" while everything else I've written was crap). I'm also expected to work on my negative attitude toward my workplace (go figure). My editor, who approved the column, got it in the neck as well.

And to think, I nearly won a national SPJ award for columns that were much more harsh than the one I'm in trouble for. So either I've really lost it or I was thrown under the bus. I'm not sure which is the case.

 

How's that resume looking, Tide? Because this bullcrap would have me shopping myself to the highest, lowest, hell, any bidder. I can't write a column because we know someone who didn't like it? Rrrrrrrrrrright.

 

Bus.
Start freshening the resume... Find a place where you can watch the Tide on Saturday on PPV

 

The one I'm loving lately: the guy before you did XYZ, so if you don't do XYZ, I'm going to call your publisher and make you do XYZ.

 

Well, the resume will have 18 months of sports design and four months of writing. I haven't even finished my first season as a beat writer.

I know I'm not SI material, but I certainly don't think I deserved to be told my writing was that bad (otherwise, why haven't they put me back on the desk and start shopping for a new writer? $$$).

The amusing thing is that we just finished a "climate survey" which said that three-fifths of the newsroom would quit if the staff could find other work, and we just lost two more today. I've been here a few months over two years and our grand total for turnover is now in the mid-20s.

 

PM me your paper, so I can know where NOT to work.

 

Jeebus... JRC and CNHI dont own papers in your neck of the woods... who else is that bad?

 

Sounds like something Morris would do.