Dick. Dick. Dick. Dick. Dick.
My Editor is the biggest Dick!
So as everyone knows....my teachers are on strike and I am working on a magazine. Now I must point out- I am not paid for this.
Because of the strike, my boss has offered me some extra shifts at work, which lets face it, I really, desperately need to make it through the last few months of school. Now she understands that if the teachers go off strike, I have to go back to school, but try explaining to her that my fellow anal retentive editor is making me come in and screwing her from having enough staff.
We have Mondays off from classes, strike or not, and the editorial staff decided that they were going to have all students come in on Monday for copy editing and fact checking. Basically if that's not your job you get to sit around and sit on your hands, waiting to see if a fact checker or copy editor has a problem with your story.
I'm sorry, but I am not giving up a day of work to sit around and do nothing. That there is giving up $60.
Now I am going back to my hometown today which if I don't have a ride, is a 2 and a half hour commute- and that is getting directly off one bus and getting directly onto the other with no wait in between. We can thank Toronto Transit for that one.
So I told my editor- who is a fellow student- that I couldn't come in and in his condecsending tone he said "Well, you know, I was really hoping you would be in on Monday, in fact I was counting on it."
Give me a break, this is not the first time I have told him that Monday's are out for me.
Anyway so people are expected to be there Tuesday and Wednesday as well. I sent my layout ideas to the entire class so I am covered. This was discusssed as an option on Friday and was fine with both my Editor in Chief and Faculty Advisor.
I told the Editor I can't promise being in on Tuesday because I may be working.
This is what he said; "Well, you need to tell your boss that you have another job and that you are already working. You're letting down the entire class if you do this."
Wow are people going to miss me that much that they can't bear not to see me sitting there, doing nothing?
His reasoning behind having me there is to present the art ideas in person and discuss them with the class (most of whom, won't likely be there).
The kicker in all of this; we were supposed to meet up today to going over layout stuff, and he's bailed out and said he can't meet.
Idiot. If I do go on Tuesday I can't promise I won't take a computer and shove it up his pompus, power tripping ass.
My Editor is the biggest Dick!
So as everyone knows....my teachers are on strike and I am working on a magazine. Now I must point out- I am not paid for this.
Because of the strike, my boss has offered me some extra shifts at work, which lets face it, I really, desperately need to make it through the last few months of school. Now she understands that if the teachers go off strike, I have to go back to school, but try explaining to her that my fellow anal retentive editor is making me come in and screwing her from having enough staff.
We have Mondays off from classes, strike or not, and the editorial staff decided that they were going to have all students come in on Monday for copy editing and fact checking. Basically if that's not your job you get to sit around and sit on your hands, waiting to see if a fact checker or copy editor has a problem with your story.
I'm sorry, but I am not giving up a day of work to sit around and do nothing. That there is giving up $60.
Now I am going back to my hometown today which if I don't have a ride, is a 2 and a half hour commute- and that is getting directly off one bus and getting directly onto the other with no wait in between. We can thank Toronto Transit for that one.
So I told my editor- who is a fellow student- that I couldn't come in and in his condecsending tone he said "Well, you know, I was really hoping you would be in on Monday, in fact I was counting on it."
Give me a break, this is not the first time I have told him that Monday's are out for me.
Anyway so people are expected to be there Tuesday and Wednesday as well. I sent my layout ideas to the entire class so I am covered. This was discusssed as an option on Friday and was fine with both my Editor in Chief and Faculty Advisor.
I told the Editor I can't promise being in on Tuesday because I may be working.
This is what he said; "Well, you need to tell your boss that you have another job and that you are already working. You're letting down the entire class if you do this."
Wow are people going to miss me that much that they can't bear not to see me sitting there, doing nothing?
His reasoning behind having me there is to present the art ideas in person and discuss them with the class (most of whom, won't likely be there).
The kicker in all of this; we were supposed to meet up today to going over layout stuff, and he's bailed out and said he can't meet.
Idiot. If I do go on Tuesday I can't promise I won't take a computer and shove it up his pompus, power tripping ass.
Kisses
Wow are people going to miss me that much that they can't bear not to see me sitting there, doing nothing?
Well, I can understand them missing seeing you. But if they can't get their heads around the fact paid work is better than unpaid work, then they're numbskulls not deserving of your presence anyway.
The kicker in all of this; we were supposed to meet up today to going over layout stuff, and he's bailed out and said he can't meet.
Hypocracy at its finest.
Good on ya for not giving in to their shit.