I had a terribly frustrating day. It was fine until about 6:30pm, when I got a call from the office that I had to come back. Apparently (un-named reporter) had been working on his one page script all day. Not only did he wait until I got home to finish the script, he thought it was acceptable to turn in a script at 6:30pm! Everyone else can write their stories in a matter of hours, but he took literally all day to write one page.

When I got back to the office, he was still tweaking the script and didn't give it to me until after 7:00. I quickly edited the video and showed it to him. He decided that half the pictures didn't work and asked me re-edit them. I gritted my teeth and made the changes. Then he came back into the edit suite and asked me to change the other half of the pictures. I resisted the urge to strangle him, as I made the changes. Finally he watched the piece for the third time and decided to re-write the entire script. I was pissed. I told him that I would either send it the way it was, or he could finish it himself. He stumbled over his words and explained that it wasn't 'broadcast ready', so I left.

After 30 minutes talking to Emily, she convinced me to go back and finish the edit. The boss said that his behavior was unacceptable and would never happen again. I begrudgingly went back and made his final round of changes.