Sports Writer, Idaho Falls, ID

[Batman]

Yes, I will do my best to be something less than a prick to the people we choose not to hire. Any idea who the Editor was back then, Batman?

No idea, sorry. It was about eight years ago, in the summer of '98, so whoever it was back then.

 

[YerkillinmePetey]

Hmm.. not sure who that would have been. I've worked under the past three SE's here, and I know who the SE was before the one that hired me, but I think the guy who blew you off is before that. Anyway.. I'd assume if you were applying for an entry-level job eight years ago, you're pretty far beyond it now.

 

[Cosmo]

Yes, I will do my best to be something less than a prick to the people we choose not to hire. Any idea who the Editor was back then, Batman?

And Pocatello wasn't used as a selling point for this job because the stuff north and east of Idaho Falls is a lot nicer than the stuff south. We do cover Idaho State athletics, which is in Pocatello, but that beat is filled, at least for now. There will still be opportunities to cover some ISU stuff, though.. there's plenty to go around. We'd rather tout the chance to see Yellowstone, climb the Tetons (if you're Harrison Ford) and fish and float the Snake River as opposed to talking about a hardly-used railroad and two or three decent college bars.

Mitch, I have a longstanding hatred of everything Pocatello, so it was more of a tongue-in-cheek comment. I still fondly remember when the ISJ dedicated an editorial to me, and when I got booed at Holt Arena. Ah the memories ...

 

[YerkillinmePetey]

So you could pretty much be... any Idaho State athlete or coach over the past 10 years. Let's narrow it down some.. over-under on the number of times you made the ISJ's police blotter.. Set it at 3..

;D ;D ;D :-X

 

[TRS-80]

Maestro, there is no way you were loathed quite as much as former and current crook Brian McNeely, the ex-ISU football coach.

 

[Cosmo]

So you could pretty much be... any Idaho State athlete or coach over the past 10 years. Let's narrow it down some.. over-under on the number of times you made the ISJ's police blotter.. Set it at 3..

;D ;D ;D :-X

I'm not Marquis Poole. ;D

 

[YerkillinmePetey]

What about Jermaine Horn?

 

[mose]

I'm thinking you're Dubby Holt. Interesting that your career path led to journalism after you turned 100.

 

[YerkillinmePetey]

bump

 

[TheGriff]

Hi guys, I'm not sure about the etiquette of this, but I am considering accepting this job. Before I do I want to find out as much as possible about the area, newspaper, work and anything else. It would probably make the most sense for you to PM me, but any information would be helpful.

I'm a recent graduate from a big school in the South. This would be my first job, and I'm excited about getting started. At the same time, I don't want to get started in the wrong place for me.

Don't be shy.

Thanks,

griff

 

[Cristiano_Ronaldo]

Hi guys, I'm not sure about the etiquette of this, but I am considering accepting this job. Before I do I want to find out as much as possible about the area, newspaper, work and anything else. It would probably make the most sense for you to PM me, but any information would be helpful.

I'm a recent graduate from a big school in the South. This would be my first job, and I'm excited about getting started. At the same time, I don't want to get started in the wrong place for me.

Don't be shy.

Thanks,

griff

This will end badly...

 

[Chi City 81]

Hi guys, I'm not sure about the etiquette of this, but I am considering accepting this job. Before I do I want to find out as much as possible about the area, newspaper, work and anything else. It would probably make the most sense for you to PM me, but any information would be helpful.

I'm a recent graduate from a big school in the South. This would be my first job, and I'm excited about getting started. At the same time, I don't want to get started in the wrong place for me.

Don't be shy.

Thanks,

griff

Take it and don't complain, rookie.

 

[TheGriff]

I'm definitely not complaining, just trying to figure out as much about the job as I can. The editors encouraged me to get as much feedback as possible, so I thought this would be one place to look.

I wasn't trying to offend anyone. Sorry if I did.

 

[GlenQuagmire]

I'm definitely not complaining, just trying to figure out as much about the job as I can. The editors encouraged me to get as much feedback as possible, so I thought this would be one place to look.

I wasn't trying to offend anyone. Sorry if I did.

Sure, no problem.

I read on a forum on a popular sports journalists Web site that some guy was offered the job, but was still considering whether to take it based on the reaction he got from those members.

Based on what I know about that guy, I'd avoid that place if at all possible. :

 

[anonymousbob]

If this is your first real gig, you'd be an idiot not to accept. This industry as a whole is an exercise in working for small-minded, washed-out car salesmen, troglodytes, derelicts and miscreants. That is 'til you find somewhere decent, which are few and far between.

 

[YerkillinmePetey]

If this is your first real gig, you'd be an idiot not to accept. This industry as a whole is an exercise in working for small-minded, washed-out car salesmen, troglodytes, derelicts and miscreants. That is 'til you find somewhere decent, which are few and far between.

Trying to figure out which category I'd fall into.. I have a big ol' cranium, so strictly geographically speaking, small-minded doesn't fit. It's unusual to be washed out at 26, so no on that one.. Car salesmen lie about the fact that they lie, whereas I'm pretty straight-forward about that, so that won't work.. You can't be something you have no idea what it is, so troglodyte doesn't work.. have to be one of those last two. Those sound about right.

 

[hack of the west]

Congrats on the promotion Mitch from the guy who hired you as a stringer.

The Griff -- take the job (if it's not too late), women are easy in I.F. If you are a woman, hopefully you find toothlessness sexy.

Batman -- Your rejection letter in '98 would have been penned by Jeff Pinkham.

 

[YerkillinmePetey]

Hack -- Thanks. I did e-mail you back a while ago.. don't know if you ever got the message or not. And yeah.. we go through redesigns here about once a week. Well, maybe not that often, but you know what they say.. some people like change, some people retire.