The No. 2 Treatment

by effenheimer at 10:55 AM on September 19, 2003

I'm about ready to open a can on my editor. This cooz is cruisin' for it. It amazes me how the most incompetent shitheads in our society rise to the top and then rather than get their shit straight, they just push and push and push. What grinds my gears a bit as well is that she went to a fucking cow college in Missouri, can't write, can't edit, can't manage for jack AND was a sophomore at my high school when I was a senior.

I don't want her job, frankly, only a dumbass would want to be a news editor for a third-tier paper, but GOD DAMN, you'd think these people, knowing that they have risen about as high as they can would get tired of just being a cog in someone else's corporate money-making machine, get off their fuckin' ass and make a difference.

Well, recently, I figured out the key to success. At least I am trying a new tactic that might soon work. I come up with a variety of ideas and email them to multiple managers, editors and corporate types. At least three ideas at a time and only when I have three ideas of merit.

In this way, I am developing one of two reputations, 1) an idea man who is full of good ideas that are useful t people in marketing, news, classified, and circulation 2) an asshole who doesn't know shit about anything.

I am willing to take that chance, because as I've said, even if I am no. 2, I might get the no. 1 treatment and as is I am treated like No. 2 on a daily basis. Yes, that was my clever way of saying "shit."

Oh and I recently died my hair pea green to reflect just how fuckin' funky I really am.