It's election night here....

[Flying Headbutt]

And I don't have any pizza. WTF?

 

[sportschick]

I'm not at work, so I'm missing out on any pizza they might get tonight. (tear)

 

[alleyallen]

Election Night....one thing I absolutely do NOT miss now that I'm out of the business.

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

April was my first election night on the news side... I had heard all the horror stories, so ahead of time I arranged to speak to all the candidates after the polls had closed. Was in the office until approximately midnight and left with all three of my stories completed (we are a p.m. with a 10 a.m. deadline)... and was the only one there all night.

The rest of the staff waited to do their crap in the morning and were running around with their heads cut off... I didn't get any pizza and caught a pretty accurate glimpse of the kind of news room I was working in...

 

[ColbertNation]

It's fun to watch them run around trying to get late stories in on deadline. I get dirty looks when I ask what the big deal is. I mean, we do this at least three times a week. No sense of humor over there.

 

[wickedwritah]

April was my first election night on the news side... I had heard all the horror stories, so ahead of time I arranged to speak to all the candidates after the polls had closed. Was in the office until approximately midnight and left with all three of my stories completed (we are a p.m. with a 10 a.m. deadline)... and was the only one there all night.

The rest of the staff waited to do their crap in the morning and were running around with their heads cut off... I didn't get any pizza and caught a pretty accurate glimpse of the kind of news room I was working in...

My one election cycle where I was on the news side, it was much of the same. I stayed until 2 or 3 doing my stuff, three stories in all, I think, and the others were in first thing in the morning chasing, chasing, chasing. Was too funny.

 

[buckweaver]

Our news desk is 45 miles away. If there's pizza, I can't even smell it. :'(

 

[MileHigh]

Sports: Where it's Election Night Every Night.

 

[OTD]

And I don't have any pizza. WTF?

Same here . . . I think you only get pizza if the big bosses are around to muck things up. If they're not there, no one needs to eat, right?

 

[imjustagirl2]

Our third shipment of pizza just arrived. I asked a guy in news who occasionally helps us out over here which is worse: election night or a random night in sports.

"any night in sports."

I relayed that to another news sider. Her genius take?

"Yeah, well, that's because we plan."


Yeah, we just throw **** on pages. Never mind that they apparently shipped in 30 people just to work tonight on that side (never seen so many people over there in my life).

*grumble*

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Our third shipment of pizza just arrived. I asked a guy in news who occasionally helps us out over here which is worse: election night or a random night in sports.

"any night in sports."

I relayed that to another news sider. Her genius take?

"Yeah, well, that's because we plan."


Yeah, we just throw **** on pages. Never mind that they apparently shipped in 30 people just to work tonight on that side (never seen so many people over there in my life).

*grumble*

We know they're morons on newsside, IJAG. This only helps reinforce that fact.

 

[wickedwritah]

We know they're morons on newsside, IJAG. This only helps reinforce that fact.

Not all of us.

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

We know they're morons on newsside, IJAG. This only helps reinforce that fact.

Not all of us.

Yeah! those of us who have done both know better

 

[wickedwritah]

We got foodstuffs tonight, but not pizza.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Every election night, our op-ed columnists have to file, like, 500 words on a hard deadline.
Every election night, the regular sports columnists have a good laugh.
Vive le democracie!

 

[User 1019]

And I don't have any pizza. WTF?

You don't need pizza, my friend. You need a new job.

No pizza? Who the hell do they think they are? Bastards.

 

[playthrough]

Yep, I loved my old bureau, where news writers wouldn't stay past 7 p.m. on any other night for all the tea in China. Then on Election Night they got this perverse enjoyment about being there, like they're 12 years old again and awake at 3 a.m. at a friend's slumber party. I'm in the corner filing a Tuesday night gamer and wanting my quiet room back.

Also loved the writers who thought their 6 inches on the county coroner election was the most important thing in the paper. I'm thinking "there were five times as many people at the Friday night football playoff game I covered last week as voters in your story."

In short: also bitter about lack of pizza.

 

[D-3 Fan]

It's municipal elections here in Iowa (mayor, city council, commissioners, etc). It's usually a light night, but the big story is in Iowa City. There is a measure on the ballot to ban students under 21 from the bars after 10 p.m..
http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071106/NEWS01/71106010/1079

Several minutes ago, the county auditor reported that there is technical glitch in the vote count.
http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071106/NEWS01/71106011/1079

This is going to be a fun night in the fight between Iowa Students and the Iowa City townies.

 

[Del_B_Vista]

It's election night here. We're all getting along fine. Pizza arrived long ago. As a former sports guy, I made one snide comment about "Where's this on Friday night?" and then ate it down.

 

[Bubbler]

Everytime I get start to get snarky about news side angst on Election Day, I think to myself how I would handle going out to cover a grisly fatal car accident.

We all have our crosses to bear. I'll trade their one night of angst so I never have to do that as long as I live.