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"Where are the bodies?"

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Write-brained, Jan 18, 2008.

  1. Angola!

    Angola! Guest

    Well, that changes things in my mind. If it was a company issued cell phone I'd be handing that number out right and left. My personal number? That's only available to people I trust.
     
  2. There's only two people I trust. One of 'em's me. The other's not you.
     
  3. fishwrapper

    fishwrapper Active Member

    Let me get a pen...Paper, anyone?
     
  4. My home phone number is listed, too.
     
  5. Angola!

    Angola! Guest

    I don't have a home phone. Like I said earlier, mine used to be listed but then I started getting crazy phone calls and I didn't think my wife needed to deal with that.
     
  6. forever_town

    forever_town Well-Known Member

    I know the people I work for. If I DON'T have some kind of limitations, they'll call me at all hours for unimportant shit that has nothing to do with the paper. They're well known among the people I work with and who work for me as being people who do little besides cause drama. I don't need THAT on my weekends.
     
  7. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    You obviously know them better than I do, sir. I'm just saying, because of my personality, I couldn't do that -- as in, I think it'd be damn near impossible for me to turn my phone off or not answer even on my days off. That's always been my problem. I don't set limitations for myself. I'm the first one to go into the office to help and first to offer to stay late. I'm a workaholic, and I don't even like workahol.
     
  8. Original. Nice.
     
  9. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    I can't take full credit for that. It was Homer who said he was "a rageaholic." He couldn't "live without rageahol." I just improvised on that. But thanks anyway, my friend.
     
  10. Jeremy Goodwin

    Jeremy Goodwin Active Member

    I have my cell on my business cards. I don't know if everyone at the office does, but I wanted to have it their. You never know when news is going to break. If I'm on the road or out and about town, I want people to know they can reach me. When I covered colleges it often helped out because the SID would call my cell with changes to practice times. Also, some schools had limited media times, so if I only had one or two chances for a player to call me, I'd rather it have it be on my cell even if I was in the newsroom. That way if I was out of the office they could still reach me. If I was in the office and needed to record the interview, I could always have them call the landline.
     
  11. forever_town

    forever_town Well-Known Member

    I find that admirable. I'm also a workaholic. However, I also know my limits. One of them is having my bosses call me on my days off. I get so few of them that I have to guard them like I'm protecting national security secrets or I burn myself out or I get pissed off at the bosses for piling on even more work than I'm already doing.

    I've learned over the years to set limits for myself. I put in about 60 hours a week and I work an average of six days a week. So on that one day of the week, I need that time to have down time.
     
  12. Wonder what the reader at the beginning of this thread would have thought about a jump line we had on a story last year. It was about an arrest made for child porn possession or something of the like. Our jump line said, "See Porn, back page."
     
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