Job Opportunity Dilemma: Love Location or Love Cash. WWYD?

[swingline]

Sorry to disappoint on the gamer.

Went surprisingly well. Boss was very understanding and also apologetic for how everything went down here.

Sounds like I’ll be here for all two months and I’m good with that. Mostly because I don’t really care about the stress of the job any further.

Like, what are they gonna do, fire you?

Congrats, ex.

 

[MileHigh]

Congrats again.

 

[dixiehack]

Senioritis is go! There’s nothing like playing out a notice at work like it was the fourth quarter of the old Blue-Gray Game.

 

[User 11148]

FIGMO ... **** It Got Moving Orders

 

[exmediahack]

The bizarre part. Today was the first time in my two years here that I was calm, happy, relaxed.

No worrying about the workload. Just get through it and go home. All the mistakes? Meh. Got a better place to go to soon.

 

[TigerVols]

The bizarre part. Today was the first time in my two years here that I was calm, happy, relaxed.

No worrying about the workload. Just get through it and go home. All the mistakes? Meh. Got a better to go to soon.

Given the “dead man walking” notion introduced earlier, perhaps he was relieved by your news as well?
Sounds like you have played this perfectly.

 

[exmediahack]

Given the “dead man walking” notion introduced earlier, perhaps he was relieved by your news as well?
Sounds like you have played this perfectly.

Maybe only to get my salary off the books. There’s still some contract wrangling to work through but I just want it to end. I’ll spend these last two months outside as much as I can, going to my favorite sports and doing my research for the next place.

 

[swingline]

Holy ****, you’re going to do your own research?

 

[micropolitan guy]

Sorry to disappoint on the gamer.

Went surprisingly well. Boss was very understanding and also apologetic for how everything went down here.

Sounds like I’ll be here for all two months and I’m good with that. Mostly because I don’t really care about the stress of the job any further.

My happiest two months at my final paper were my last two months. I know I was leaving, they didn't, until two weeks before I pulled the plug. Still did all my assignments, worked hard, wrote a daily blog, took on some extra layout ****s, etc., but at that point IDNGAF anymore.

 

[Slacker]

My happiest two months at my final paper were my last two months.
I know I was leaving, they didn't, until two weeks before I pulled the
plug. Still did all my assignments, worked hard, wrote a daily blog,
took on some extra layout ****s, etc., but at that point IDNGAF anymore.

What the hell were you eating?

 

[exmediahack]

First weekend since dropping the bomb.

An odd four days at work, to be sure. The job isn’t stressful anymore. I still GAF but now I don’t feel like I’ll be stressing out over whenever they’re going to let me go. I’ve got a more stable place awaiting me — a place that has shown it really wants me. (We’ll see how long that lasts!)

Work did the Friday News Dump of my departure, by email. A classy note, one that I’m surprised by.

 

[I Should Coco]

I’m closing in on 30 years in the newspaper business, and the number of public acknowledgments when someone left my various shops over the years can be counted on one hand. With fingers left over.

One of the many ways broadcast journalism is different from print.

Anyway, glad you got a classier than expected announcement, ex.

 

[exmediahack]

I’m closing in on 30 years in the newspaper business, and the number of public acknowledgments when someone left my various shops over the years can be counted on one hand. With fingers left over.

One of the many ways broadcast journalism is different from print.

Anyway, glad you got a classier than expected announcement, ex.

I’ve been “shown the door” at my last three stations. Each time carrying a box with my boss escorting me out and taking my key card.

Never fired but each boss was mad that I was leaving.

 

[Slacker]

It's good to always keep this workplace mantra in mind:

These are not your friends. These are your co-workers.

There are exceptions, of course. But choose carefully, and trust your radar.

 

[micropolitan guy]

What the hell were you eating?

Whoops. Copy editing was never my strongpoint. And autocorrect is your enema.

 

[wicked]

It's good to always keep this workplace mantra in mind:

These are not your friends. These are your co-workers.

There are exceptions, of course. But choose carefully, and trust your radar.

Agreed 100 percent.

But when you’re in the foxhole with folks five days a week, lines get blurred.

I think more so in this field than others. Especially if you’re a copy editor whose only “buddies” just got done working the 5-1 shift with you. Maybe other shift work, too. You’re released from the dungeon while everyone else is asleep.

 

[I Should Coco]

Agreed 100 percent.

But when you’re in the foxhole with folks five days a week, lines get blurred.

I think more so in this field than others. Especially if you’re a copy editor whose only “buddies” just got done working the 5-1 shift with you. Maybe other shift work, too. You’re released from the dungeon while everyone else is asleep.

Excellent point about the 5 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. aspect of journalism work (at least before the last decade or so, when newspapers were still printed on site).

Many times I remember wanting to go out after work and most of the smaller towns I worked in already had rolled up the sidewalks.

It’s why late night BS sessions happened so often in newsrooms.

 

[MileHigh]

I’ve been “shown the door” at my last three stations. Each time carrying a box with my boss escorting me out and taking my key card.

Never fired but each boss was mad that I was leaving.

I've seen it happen to many. Happened to me -- and that was a layoff. Best thing that could have ever happened to me, though. That place was a toxic hell hole.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Agreed 100 percent.

But when you’re in the foxhole with folks five days a week, lines get blurred.

I think more so in this field than others. Especially if you’re a copy editor whose only “buddies” just got done working the 5-1 shift with you. Maybe other shift work, too. You’re released from the dungeon while everyone else is asleep.

For more years than I can count on two hands, I worked the 5-1:30 shift. Driving through my hometown seeing all the stores and gas stations closed and nobody awake except the occasional police car in hiding hoping to pull someone over (or maybe taking a nap themselves) was sometimes cool, frequently eerie and occasionally depressing.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Good luck in Memphis!

Oh wait, did I miss something?