This morning I've been all "Blah blah blah Monday blah blah stock market plummets blah blah..."
I spent a couple of days last week at a portfolio management convention. It was very useful really, and included some debates (for instance, "Australia is totes heading for a recession" versus "No, no, no, it'll only
feel
like one"). It also included the quote, from an American practitioner, "I think the greatest market failure during the Global Financial Crisis was that we couldn't find a way to put a single banker in jail for what happened."
"You are editing this as though it is a manuscript."
HOW DARE YOU!
He opened his last email to me with "This is becoming too much work."
You know what would make it easier? If he just accepted your edits.
"I do not wish to explain something the reader can look up."
Look for his next article to be a series of Wikipedia links interspersed with commentary like "SCARY!", "DEJECTION" and possibly "KITTENS!".
So basically what this guy is saying is that it is more important for him to look smart than to communicate information to his readers.
Poor Zoe. Poor Laura. I'm glad she's going to be okay.
He opened his last email to me with "This is becoming too much work."
"I'm sorry you find being published in a prestigious journal too taxing. Perhaps you can suggest someone else to write a commentary."
My cold has reached the stage in which it hurts to put on my glasses.
Oh, ugh, Ginger. I hate that.
So basically what this guy is saying is that it is more important for him to look smart than to communicate information to his readers.
Ding ding ding!
Oh, Steph... the continual horror that is other people. Can you kick it to senior management along with the email string showing that you tried?
I documented the hell out of it, and all the emails are in the AMA's tracking system, so they can refer to the emails and see that he's being a special snowflake about his precious baby words. I am hoping SO HARD that senior management is all "Fuck you, buddy; these words are coming out."
I just uploaded the "corrected" document, so from this point on, it's out of my hands. If he continues to complain, it will be to someone who is higher on the food chain than me.
He opened his last email to me with "This is becoming too much work."
You know what would make it easier? If he just accepted your edits.
Right??? This yahoo went through the article and made comments in each paragraph, saying "I accept these minor edits if they are journal policy." Every. Single. Paragraph.
So basically what this guy is saying is that it is more important for him to look smart than to communicate information to his readers.
Yup. But senior management may well change it. I hope SO HARD that they do.
Authors love to give the lowly copyeditors all kinds of shit, and then they suddenly turn into compliant little kittens when senior management tells them to shut the fuck up and do it our way. Amazing.
