Lorne ,'Smile Time'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Is this Monday?
Assistant messed up the references in a paper, asked me what to do. I said, compare it with the original manuscript and fix it. She said, we don't HAVE the original manuscript anymore, that's what she worked on.
WHAT
Are you fucking kidding me? She's been editing the submissions and not keeping a copy of the originals. I want to strangle her.
Good morning! I hate everyone.
Zen, that's insane.
Sorry that people are being annoying, Dana.
She's been editing the submissions and not keeping a copy of the originals.
I legit just gasped like a character in a bad radio play. WHAT THE SHIT, assistant? WHAT THE SHIT. Why? WHY????
She's been editing the submissions and not keeping a copy of the originals.
But she still has a copy of the submission in e-mail, right? Or she is tracking changes she can see what the original was, right?
But she still has a copy of the submission in e-mail, right?
That was my thought, but I bet they delete the emails. Just a feeling.
Dana, I'm in the I hate everyone boat with you. We'll hate together, it'll be cozy and warm from the fire of our hate.
Steph, I KNOW, good god. I was calm, I said, ask the author for another copy and from now on keep the original and work on a copy, and she agreed, but man. She's been doing this for years, long before I took over this journal. I had NO IDEA this was happening. It never occurred to me that I'd have to tell anyone not to destroy the original. Idiot. Thank Bosco I found this out in a relatively harmless way before she did any real damage.
But she still has a copy of the submission in e-mail, right? Or she is tracking changes she can see what the original was, right?
NO. We get the submissions through a 3rd party service (called ScholarOne). AFAIK S1 doesn't hold on to copies of anything that passes through its mighty halls. And apparently she wasn't tracking changes. She just blithely rewrites the original submission. I just... can't even.
Wow. In the software development world, the idea of not being able to go back to the previous version of a file just doesn't compute.
Sits with Dana.
My goal today is to interact as little as possible. I may set a record this week on completed paperwork.