To Beantown and Back

I'm just curious as to whether he got paid for the entire day. Is he salary, hourly, what?

Obviously it's not really any of our business.

 

I was agreeing that I'm bitter and angry and spend a lot of time griping about it because I haven't found anything better to do

 

Being able to work in two cities while flying around the country in one day is not innovative when there is technology that allows you not to do so.

50-plus years ago, newspapers used to boast when they would send a photog across the country to shoot a game, then have the photog rush to the airport, put the film on a plane, have an editor in a taxi meet the plane when it landed, rush back to the newsroom and develop the film across the country. That was innovative because readers weren't used to seeing pictures from an event across the country in the next day's paper.

Now, with TV and the Internet, readers and viewers can see events from around the world instantly. There's nothing innovative about someone doing work in two cities in one day by using an airplane.

The airplane has been around for the last 106 years and the Internet is no longer a novelty. Shooting two games in two distant cities in one day when there is someone else to help out is not innovative. It's stupid.

 

Unimpressed:

 

You're just angry because some guy got up to go take a piss and blocked your view of Soriano's latest misplay. [/crossthreading]

 

I am not in the business anymore, and I am salaried. If my boss said there is a problem we need solved by tomorrow morning, I would expect to be in my office all night until it was solved.

I hope that does happen often (it never has), but I would do it. I have also worked Saturdays and nights when extra things were needed.

I am also not in the union but a part of management.

 

Nice pull.

 

they also train for 4-6 months for it

 

Thank you for saying this. Totally agree.

 

Bingo. This is the only big problem I have with the idea.

 

And even if he did pitch the idea, the fact that management didn't take a step back for a few reasons and say, "I appreciate your gumption but it's too much of a burden for one person, plus all that has to happen is for one of your flights to be delayed and the plan goes out the window" tells me they didn't give a fuck.

 

Geez, Kent, you're out of the newspaper business and supposedly better off for it, yet you're still the most bitter guy here. Get over yourself.