sorta solidarity
Mondays and Tuesdays are going to be rough the rest of the month. Probably Wednesdays and Thursdays, too. And Fridays. But not as rough as Mondays and Tuesdays. It’s just, we’re coming up on awards season and so we have all these special sections to ZZzzzZZZ…
So I said I’d stage a walk-out of my own when the writers strike started, but I lied. Turns out there are some entertainment blogs that are going dark as a show of solidarity for the Writers Guild. Wish I could too, but promises to myself are more important than promises to WGA members. Plus I’ve never been big on symbolic gestures that won’t amount to much. Now, if I could walk out of my 9-to-5 gig as a show of “solidarity,” that might change things a bit. You’re right, it’s more of a 10ish-to-6ish gig, but you know what I’m saying.
Speaking of that, just over a year and a month ago I was handed a pile of blue correcting pens when I started my current day job as copy editor for a weekly entertainment trade. I don’t even like blue. I looked at that pen pile and I thought, “Why do I have to be blue?” Then I told myself — promised myself, really — that I’d be out of there before the last pen had run dry. Arbitrary, yes, but it was a gauge that seemed apt. Well, I’m down to my last pen.
dave wrote:
DO IT!!! Because if you don’t, they’ll just keep handing you blue pens until you’re just as dried up as the old pens. And then where will you be? In the land of used up blue pens, that’s where. And that land is shitty. Parking there sucks. Rum and Cokes are weak and overpriced, and the women are stuck up. It’s almost as bad as living in Los Angeles… Oh wait… never mind.
Posted on 13-Nov-07 at 4:13 pm | Permalink
Charley Daniels wrote:
they’ll just keep handing you blue pens
Not at this place, man. Here you have to fill out three different forms and get them all notarized by the head of your department, the head of the office supplies department, and the executive director of the pen allotment group.
Posted on 13-Nov-07 at 4:39 pm | Permalink
Mike Bijon wrote:
Yet another great idea that bosses have:
Making you need written permission, filed in triplicate, before you can do your job.
Posted on 14-Nov-07 at 4:45 pm | Permalink