Who here has been suspended?

Good God where can I get me some of that?

 

You know I love you too, Moddy. But I was just so shocked that I was getting ejected from the newsroom for simply tossing a paper onto my desk that I probably wasn't thinking clearly. Plus, I was the only one in the department who could design pages and it was the week of the race, so they weren't sending me home anytime soon.

Plus those were back in my hot-headed days. I wasn't old enough to drink then. I'm much more composed now.

 

Separate incidents, my friend. So no gendarmes were involved or anything.

Oh, and the getting off was on my own time, dammit.

 

If someone was disciplined every time they cursed on deadline or threw a proof down in disgust or yelled at one of the interns or prep or agate guys because the person who they're really mad at isn't there, we'd be losing the majority of the people in this business.

When I was an intern, one of the DSEs told me, "99 percent of the things said in the newsroom on deadline should be forgotten about as soon as you leave the building."

I'm not condoning yelling, screaming or any of the bad behavior that happens when deadlines are tight and for reasons out of your control you know you're going to be late, but those who follow that rule usually last a lot longer than those who hold grudges and let things fester.

 

I used to have those moments a lot when I was younger. But that just immaturity that I think -- for the most part -- I've grown out of. That was just a tense place to work. I've never worked in an environment where everybody was so unhappy.

I'd never yell at you moddy. I'm afraid you'd beat me over the head with birkenstocks.

 

Never been suspended, but I have been censored. And that pisses me off to no end considering I write in a country where no one has the legal right to shut up another person.

 

The government got involved with what you wrote?

 

which we are anyway, for unrelated reasons.

 

No. My publisher.