Careful reaching for that Election Night pizza...

If you're putting out a live section for tomorrow, your job will be dramatically impacted by the election. Everybody working when the pizza arrives should be able to partake.

What a complete and total bitch.

 

We aren't talking about filet mignon, its a couple extra pizzas. I can't think of much more depressing in a workplace environment (other than "you're fired") than having some cretin send out an email telling you that you are limited to two slices while you are working.

 

Somebody needs to find out if that paper has a trade agreement.
Some pizza place gets free ads in exchange for free pizza.
At one place I worked, we always got pretty good grub. Box lunches with decent sandwiches. Always thought real highly of the bosses, then I found it was a trade thing.

 

Every place I've ever worked had a trade agreement with a pizza place.

 

Yeah, if that memo isn't this year's sign of the newspaper apocalypse, I don't know what is. Almost as bad as Craig Dubow e-mailing us the other day that he's making the ultimate sacrifice by whacking a few percentage points off his salary to the tune of $200,000. Geez.

 

Not me. I used to work at a pizza place, though, and we would trade dinner with other restaurants all the time. Never with the newspaper, though.

 

All the salad you want, though, sports dudes.

 

The true downfall of the newspaper industry -- spending too much on pizza.

 

Last election, I jokingly chided the news reporters that they weren't going out for a drink after finishing up. Editor overhears and next thing I know the whole newsroom (sports, news, photogs) was walking across the street to the bar for a couple of drinks on his dime.
I'd have run through a wall for that guy.

 

It's about time to toss a Baby Ruth in the editor's convertible on a hot day.

Yeah, let's limit the number of pizza slices the workers can have on election night. Next thing you know they'll be installing pay toilets in the restrooms.

 

To be fair, the EE comes off as the good guy in this one. Bonus points for the added humor in his reply. (At least, I hope he was joking about the knife ...)

 

But, but Mizzou! For everyone who takes a third slice of pizza, McClatchy will lay off 500 employees!

Blue font meant above, BTW.