My sister just called me to holler indignantly about Romney's magickal deductions/tax cuts/bullshit. So, we aren't the only ones who noticed.
To share my pain, I have, as of this morning's status report, 203 articles active in my queue at work, with deadlines ranging between Friday and the end of November. More articles are of course steadily coming in.
Earlier this year we were informed that our production cycle would be cut from 6 weeks to 4 weeks, beginning end of November. All year we've been asking for concrete specifics on how they expected us to accomplish this. Today, management asked us to detail how we plan to accomplish it. WTF.
Back to work.
All year we've been asking for concrete specifics on how they expected us to accomplish this. Today, management asked us to detail how we plan to accomplish it. WTF.
Wait, you work for Mitt Romney?
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Tell them you will still edit, but will no longer proofread? If it passes MS word spellcheck, it is all good. I strongly suspect the Washington Post of using this work process.
I have at least worked out how I will renew my registration having left my docs in JA (don't ask) where they've surely been tossed. The CA DMV has a service where they'll call you back. It saves a crick neck and sitting in one place--I was on the phone when they called back the first time, and the robot tried again a couple minutes later.
My dash is creeping me out right now. I swear one person said lustful things about a wolf, and another just posted a (real) picture of CPR because it looks like boykissing (it's not like they have a history of posting life-saving methods, even aerial ones as nifty as this).
I SUSPECT EVERYONE.
I strongly suspect the Washington Post of using this work process.
Use the gawker method: crowdsource. And then ignore the crowd.
and [link] because David with that face looking at him = COMEDY GOLD!
Kitten trolling - a new low.
Typo, I have resorted to the run-spellcheck method of "editing" before, and will probably be doing exactly that from now on. Check the legal things that have to be right, fix anything that looks obviously wrong in the references, run spellcheck, and let it go. If the author is happy, I'm happy. Nobody cares anymore, they just want it published FAST.
msbelle!! We are totally going to be in the market for dogs when we get back from CA in two weeks! Looking for a youngish, Beagle-ish dog who gets along with cats, other dogs, and young children.
They have to eat something.
