My continual pet peeve: babbling copy editors

[sportschick]

I've taught. I've been a reporter. I've been a copy editor.

I left teaching to be a copy editor. There's a damned good reason for that. Copy editing has fewer headaches, but whatever think whatever you will boys.

 

[HandsomeHarley]

My biggest peeve is you shouldn't say something to the room that you wouldn't pick up the phone and tell the writer. That's just cowardly.

Great post.
I find that individuals who say anything about their own work (catching a mistake included) are just fishing for compliments and fishing for compliments is uncool except in the world of the 10 a.m. meetings where the mutual buttkissing goes far. That's how you get promoted, sing your own praises while criticizing the others in the sports department while at all costs kissing up to the clueless ME in charge of those meetings.

Compliments in our newsroom are all we get. No raises, no bonuses. Just compliments.

And those are from the managing editor. The publisher/owner's son (the only one who has had a raise in forever) only complains about the cost of things.