To be fair, I think our turnaround time is ridiculously tight, but I'm not in charge; I didn't decide to make it that tight. (I also don't think authors are told how tight the turnaround time is when their articles are accepted, but, again, that's not my decision.
Oh, ditto, on both points. Our authors have 2 days to return their comments on the edited article, and of course many of them cannot do that. Especially since our scheduling algorithm does not take weekends into account! We have 3 weeks from receipt of the unedited manuscript to online publish. It's basically impossible; if anything at all doesn't go according to schedule, it can't be done. Fortunately the bosses in my department know this, all they want is a reason to plug in for why.
SuitGuy has moxy. We don't like moxy.
I try really hard to make the Reason for Delay never be ME, but sometimes it is. Because sometimes I can't get everything done. "Too much work" is never an acceptable reason, alas. Also, I have one journal that basically makes me want to cry*, and I admit I put that one off until last, and sometimes I put it off too long.
*I am a professional.
Our authors have 2 days to return their comments on the edited article, and of course many of them cannot do that. Especially since our scheduling algorithm does not take weekends into account!
That's exactly us, literally. Authors get 2 days, and weekends are not taken into account. So an author who gets their article on Thursday is expected to return it on Saturday.
I think it's just crazy unreasonable, but everyone in the industry seems focused on publishing the most papers as fast as possible.
Yeah, I feel like on the one hand if the response is "we will get it to you three days after your deadline", the answer should be "great, we will check if there is room for you in next month's edition and if not put you on a wait list!" But to not take weekends into account is ridiculous
Timelies all!
Trying to keep things out of the reach of Mr. Grabby Boy is not easy.
God, I fucking hate our racist neighbor.
Finally got my Hillary sign up out front. Too bad my neighbor hasn't yet taken down his Bernie one. (And he actually moved it after the primaries were over to put a local candidate in the more prominent position, so why not just put it away??)
