i found out today that i'm not respected in my office. Here is a rough version of what im going to say in my five minute piece when election comes around.
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When you put in the kind of effort into what we do every day, the kind of time we spend producing a daily, a comrodery forms. We become tied to oneanother like a family. Especialy considering a normal job ends, you can go home, be with your freinds; we don't have that. We spend all day in class, try and squeez some sleep or some homework in when we can, and then come to work untill the late hours.
Here we're not only co-workers, we're eachothers only practical souce of socialization.
But Brent put it the best way i can think of the other night. He said "I'm not here to make freinds."
Of couse you're all my freinds, but i forgot that you're my co-workers first and freinds later. I aproached all of you with a certain candor that i only aford my freinds. You won't have to worry about that ever again.
I'm well aware i've lost your respect as a co-worker. I'm not ignorant of the fact that many of you are woried about my capabilities as Editor In Cheif because how i act in the office. But i'm telling you that was only a lapse of judgement on my part.
When considering me for Editor In Cheif, please think to yourself, "were these not the same questions you were asking when brent was running for Managing Editor?" Remeber that it was his character you worried about and not his quality of profesionalism. Not his ability to do the task at hand.
Please, when you discuss my ability to do this job, think about the countles hours i've put into the paper. Think of how many times i just didnt go to sleep in order to meet my task at hand. Remeber that on plenty of ocasions i've slept in the office just so i could maintain the dual responsibility of being a student and a member of this editorial board.
And above all, remember, any past and present concerns about my ability to do this job, to be EIC, will no longer be affected by the level of candor i've treated you all with.
Whenever i aproached you with unbridsaled honesty, whenever i talked to you with the simple manerisms of a freind that wanted to talk to a freind, that those weren't intended to be examples of my stamina, and they won't be expressed in the future.
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Its apologetic with a gentle tinge of "fuck you to all those who've been doubting me" mixed in
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When you put in the kind of effort into what we do every day, the kind of time we spend producing a daily, a comrodery forms. We become tied to oneanother like a family. Especialy considering a normal job ends, you can go home, be with your freinds; we don't have that. We spend all day in class, try and squeez some sleep or some homework in when we can, and then come to work untill the late hours.
Here we're not only co-workers, we're eachothers only practical souce of socialization.
But Brent put it the best way i can think of the other night. He said "I'm not here to make freinds."
Of couse you're all my freinds, but i forgot that you're my co-workers first and freinds later. I aproached all of you with a certain candor that i only aford my freinds. You won't have to worry about that ever again.
I'm well aware i've lost your respect as a co-worker. I'm not ignorant of the fact that many of you are woried about my capabilities as Editor In Cheif because how i act in the office. But i'm telling you that was only a lapse of judgement on my part.
When considering me for Editor In Cheif, please think to yourself, "were these not the same questions you were asking when brent was running for Managing Editor?" Remeber that it was his character you worried about and not his quality of profesionalism. Not his ability to do the task at hand.
Please, when you discuss my ability to do this job, think about the countles hours i've put into the paper. Think of how many times i just didnt go to sleep in order to meet my task at hand. Remeber that on plenty of ocasions i've slept in the office just so i could maintain the dual responsibility of being a student and a member of this editorial board.
And above all, remember, any past and present concerns about my ability to do this job, to be EIC, will no longer be affected by the level of candor i've treated you all with.
Whenever i aproached you with unbridsaled honesty, whenever i talked to you with the simple manerisms of a freind that wanted to talk to a freind, that those weren't intended to be examples of my stamina, and they won't be expressed in the future.
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Its apologetic with a gentle tinge of "fuck you to all those who've been doubting me" mixed in