What do you do if you work for an idiot publisher?

[Michael_ Gee]

He owns 80% of the business.

Then he will lose money.

 

[CD Boogie]

I'd leak news of this to a competitor. Writing an editorial from a fictitious group about anti-LGBT matters? Unless it's co-signed by Publius or Silence Do-Good, GTFO with that.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I thought Singleton retired years ago ...

 

[NancyLou]

The guy in legal handling this finally got the publisher to admit he wrote it. Then he follows up with, *I read thru thus and only see one or two things wrong with it."

Mr. Legal wasn't even supposed to come in today because his nephew is having life saving surgery, but he came in to try to stop this runaway freight train.

Also, they're guessing he's been up all night drinking so, connect the dots.

 

[spikechiquet]

I'm the managing editor. I've been at this publication for four months, now. I have over 20 years as a journalist, the last five as an editor. My publisher is a Harvard MBA and actually said, in a meeting with a VP at Cox in Dayton, "I know publishing better than even you do! I published my high school paper!"

This is the same guy who told our VP of legal, "I took a law class at Harvard. I know far more about the law than you do!"

Now he's trying to tell me what to put in the paper, even if it's going to get us sued. Both the Communications Director and house legal have told him not to do it. I've not refused him, yet, because these two are taking up the battle for me. But he's adament.

The issue? LGBT protected status.

He's rabid about this (against) and has handed me the most inflammatory and emotion filled rants to publish and then signs it with the name of a ficticious group (I looked them up, they don't exist) and says, "We need to keep the newspaper separate from the rest of the company or we'll get in trouble." But this rant is ALL him! Even people who don't know him will say, "Oh, yeah, I know who wrote this."

It took me many years to work my way up to this position, and given there's not a lot of work for someone like me out there, I'm at my wit's end. I left work an hour early today after already having 90 hours on the clock, and he actually tried to call me in to put an editorial into the paper he wrote. I told him I'd do it first thing in the morning for the next issue, after I run it past legal, and he went ballistic on me.

How do I handle this? I've had kind of nutty editors in the past, but nothing like this nor at this level. He fired a guy last week for taking an hour too long to make a logo. This guy is A-1 crazy!

Wow...and I thought John Block had the hold as craziest publisher in America!

 

[NancyLou]

Wow...and I thought John Block had the hold as craziest publisher in America!

Glad I could hand you a crazier one to help you feel better about the other one! LOL

 

[Azrael]

What do you do?

Quit.

Life's too short - or too long - to work for idiots.

 

[NancyLou]

What do you do?

Quit.

Life's too short - or too long - to work for idiots.

Life's also too short to be homeless.

 

[Azrael]

Life's also too short to be homeless.

There are other jobs in the same field. Many of them involving fewer idiots.

And there are lots and lots of other ways to earn a living in different fields, many of them idiot-free.

 

[studthug12]

Hmmm 90 hours and paid 40. Fredrick has pointed this out before and nobody believed him.

Who doesn't believe you?

 

[jr/shotglass]

Hmmm 90 hours and paid 40. Fredrick has pointed this out before and nobody believed him.

We believed you just fine. We just all got sick of you whining about something we all knew already.

 

[TexasVet]

Harvard MBA and he's a newspaper publisher? That tells me everything I need to know and expect from him.