Out the door she goes

Only one other person has alluded to the most important question in this thread.

Orville, are y'all hiring?

 

I don't know why I'm pissed, but I am. I think I am more pissed that she's being defended by many of my fellow reporters. I think it was a shitty way to leave, but then again she was shitty employee. Why defend her?
Had I not been on the phone I think I would have enjoyed it more.

She left before the pizza.

The City editor not realizing until 20 minutes later has provided much comedy for the remainder of the day.
I called him up later to ask him if he heard Rich Rodriguez had quit WVU.

Will she replaced? I doubt it.
But she didn't do much (her weekly story count was less 1) so I don't think the workload will be much greater.


She's not taking a pay cut. She has a new job at a factory, where she starts Monday.

 

At my first shop, we had a reporter quit on his first day. He went to lunch and never came back.

 

I think every shop has one of those people. Those half-day quitters may have stayed for all of four hours, but they become legends in the newsroom.

 

She's not a sportswriter, so I'd guess before.

 

Sounds like she obviously had issues with the company beyond just an insurance hike. Can't fault her for quitting; can't fault her for wanting to stick it to the company; but CAN fault her for doing it in a way that basically screws her co-workers. It's them, the lowly peons, who ultimately gets screwed by her actions since they'd be called on to cover her responsibilities that day. The way she quit won't even cause a ripple for the accountant/publisher/corporate management who decided to raise insurance rates, but it will make her co-workers' job harder.

I've seen two deskers quit by just not showing up (not both together, but two separate instances). I've also heard about a married couple, both of whom worked at the same paper, do the same.

 

At my first full-time gig, one of the news reporters had a loud, ugly confrontation with one of the assistant news editors (they were both assholes). Two or three weeks go by and nothing happened, so we all figured they had smoothed it over.

There was a huge, paper-wide project going on. I didn't realize that it wasn't done with because my part in it was finished. But the news guys had a much larger chunk of the load on that one. This particular reporter turned in something like 13 stories in the final three days before the deadline, working at least 30 hours of OT that he wasn't going to get paid for in the last week or so.

The minute he was done, they called him in the ME's office and told him he was fired and security was going to walk him out. Man, I'm so mad I missed the fireworks. I'm told it was a heck of a show.

The guy may have been an ass, but that was a damn lousy way to handle things.

 

Sounds to me like everybody won, Orville. Except maybe you, who would have preferred she sat around and gave her two stories weeks.

 

If reporters got fired for having loud, ugly confrontations with editors, who would be left?

 

Ace, you are oh so right.

 

Too bad she wasn't an ace reporter, one of the best staff people in the newsroom.

Then her departure would become the stuff of legends.

Bad management has turned this into a "get them before they get you" world.

BTW, wonder if her factory is doing any hiring...