Sabotage

[Vombatus]

You need an office version of the Trunk Monkey.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Pulling the byline off a front page story and deliberating making the product look shabby by not indenting the lead graf? That's a slippery slope to let some putz try to ski on. Can't imagine it engenders too much trust amongst the rest of the staff, either. If he cops to doing it on purpose, I think there's cause to fire him. But if he pleads ignorance, yeah, it might be tough. You can still slash his tires, though. (JK; but not really.)

I imagine the CMSs newspapers use are still awful and buggy enough that an "error" like that could've theoretically been caused by a half-dozen different things.

That's just enough to muddy the waters of "just cause."

 

[dixiehack]

Even if your byline had stayed on, why would an unindented paragraph reflect badly on you and not the paginator?

 

[playthrough]

The un-indent is amateur crap, but removing the byline? That's sacred. Maybe that sounds vain, but I know I'd be incredibly pissed.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Even if your byline had stayed on, why would an unindented paragraph reflect badly on you and not the paginator?

Because readers don't always know, or care that reporter isn't the same person designing the paper?

I would think that there are very few reporters out there who have never had someone blame them for the headline over their story, even if they're not the one who wrote it.

 

[CD Boogie]

It's such a passive-aggressive ***** move.

 

[WriteThinking]

I don't even know if there has been a verbal reprimand. Nothing of the sort has been relayed to me.

Why don't you ask, or find this out, somehow? Perhaps go up the chain of command, showing the issues to each and every person, including the two you suspect, and beyond, while you do it...

 

[Vombatus]

Why don't you ask, or find this out, somehow? Perhaps go up the chain of command, showing the issues to each and every person, including the two you suspect, and beyond, while you do it...

And, if your state allows it, have your phone recording audio and/or video of each discussion.

 

[Liut]

Why don't you ask, or find this out, somehow? Perhaps go up the chain of command, showing the issues to each and every person, including the two you suspect, and beyond, while you do it...

Took it up with the Publisher, but nothing's been done about it to my knowledge, although I'm getting the silent treatment from the colleagues. The atmosphere is awful. Dread going to work.

 

[Songbird]

Maybe they set a trap they knew you'd fall into by being disgruntled enough to ask the publisher who then told someone you're angry, who told someone else, and so on and so on, which begot the silent treatment and could lead to you quitting ... which is maybe what they wanted in the first place. Office politics is a *****.

 

[JohnHammond]

I'm guessing colleagues are sick of the whining and don't want to be around the OP until he/she gets over it.

 

[Liut]

I'm guessing colleagues are sick of the whining and don't want to be around the OP until he/she gets over it.

**** off.

 

[JohnHammond]

Try decaf.

 

[Liut]

**** off.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

All the colleagues or just the ones involved in this?

 

[Vombatus]

You should work up a Number 6 on 'em.

 

[Liut]

All the colleagues or just the ones involved in this?

Just the two, BWIP. As I mentioned (I think) last week, it's a small shop. Publisher-owner is not in-house.

 

[Liut]

You should work up a Number 6 on 'em.

Sorry, man. That one flew over my head.

 

[Vombatus]

Sorry, man. That one flew over my head.

Blazing Saddles.

 

[Liut]

Blazing Saddles.

LOL! For a split second, I thought your post had something to do with Rick Stain's never-ending enthusiasm.