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susandennisNo newspaper this morning either. GRRRR I am a newspaper junky. Not as bad as I used to be - heck I only need one newspaper a day now but when I don't get that one, I get really crabby. This-is-Brian-How-May-I-Help-You in the Circulation Department got to understand this crabby pretty well this morning.
When I started out in life it was as a newspaper reporter. This was back in the dark ages - before Woodward and Berstein. I thought being a newspaper reporter was the coolest thing since sliced bread (this is back when we actually used to say stuff like that - out loud). My parents thought that I would come to my senses and get a real job eventually (and I really hate that they were right on this, too).
But, invariably, whenever I would tell someone I was a newspaper reporter, the only time I got more than a bored stare was when they had circulation problems with their paper. I wanted to scream "Do I look like those geeks in circulation????" But, I would carefully explain how a newspaper operated - that the news operation and the circulation department were totally separate. Well, I did that about 2 times and then finally I would just pretend to really care about their stupid delivery problems and tell them that I'd get our best people working on it.
Turns out I was a really crappy reporter anyway. I loved getting all the info, the inside skippy, the dirt, the poop but, once I got it, my interest in sharing it wasn't all that revved up. Frankly, I knew and they didn't - hahaha. Not that good a reporter attitude.
Maybe these delivery problems are retribution.
When I started out in life it was as a newspaper reporter. This was back in the dark ages - before Woodward and Berstein. I thought being a newspaper reporter was the coolest thing since sliced bread (this is back when we actually used to say stuff like that - out loud). My parents thought that I would come to my senses and get a real job eventually (and I really hate that they were right on this, too).
But, invariably, whenever I would tell someone I was a newspaper reporter, the only time I got more than a bored stare was when they had circulation problems with their paper. I wanted to scream "Do I look like those geeks in circulation????" But, I would carefully explain how a newspaper operated - that the news operation and the circulation department were totally separate. Well, I did that about 2 times and then finally I would just pretend to really care about their stupid delivery problems and tell them that I'd get our best people working on it.
Turns out I was a really crappy reporter anyway. I loved getting all the info, the inside skippy, the dirt, the poop but, once I got it, my interest in sharing it wasn't all that revved up. Frankly, I knew and they didn't - hahaha. Not that good a reporter attitude.
Maybe these delivery problems are retribution.