Extra, Extra, Newspaper Boy Quits!
I worked for a newspaper, editing and actually putting the paper together. Arranging it all, placing stories and pictures where they need to be. Titling, quoting and sourcing everything.
I was a one-man team and used an overly complicated system that I figured out how to use really effectively. They treated me like crap, set impossible deadlines and berated me for not meeting them.
One day the boss tells me to fully put a paper done by the end of the day, gave me no warning, I had no articles from the journalists and no photos from photographers.
It was my job to collect it all from everyone and he wants me to do it in a single day? I told him no, if he wants it done, he has to give me more time.
He tells me if I don’t have it done by the end of the day I’m fired, I tell him that this paper can’t function without me.
He tells me I need to “take the day off and cool my temper,” and that he’ll do my job for me. Get a call an hour after I get home that he needs me to come in and do it and I can have as much time as I need.
Too little, too late; I quit and the paper did not come out for weeks.
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