oct 19

The dreaded daily meetings are back. Big boss thinks that we perform only when we attend the stupid daily meetings. Well, if I was the boss, I would have let the reporters roam around freely. No meetings in my newsroom!!!  

Yuvi- our ex-city editor and now a reporter- seems to be the only guy who is performing well. I wonder if it’s his news sense or just his charm that works. All his stories come from the outskirts of the city (so what if we are a city tabloid. The Big boss loves him)!! Watching him sell a story in the meetings is a treat- he can sell the most pathetic story lacing it with a spoon of drama, two spoons of revenge and multiple spoons of jilted lovers and love triangles. That’s not it. The most shocking thing is the Big boss will buy it, second-in-command will say ‘superb story’ and the third-in-command will add ‘perfect page one’.

Dear god,

If you tell me Yuvi’s story-getting and story-selling secret in my dream tonight, I will treat you with one kilogram of sweets (modaks and mawa peda’s to be precise). Love you.

oct 10

I have never quite understood what’s with Lucy’s style of working. When she has a great story, she walks into the office and secretly discusses it with all the bosses one after another. When she has brief, she still goes around discreetly explaining it to the bosses. No doubt she is a hard worker, but would it be like a debatable question if she discusses her stories like normal people in the newsroom do??
Big boss is back. I will have to move around cautiously as she may catch me anytime and ask for the number of page ones I have filed in the past one month. Well I wish I could tell her that I filed plenty of page one’s but they were always carried on the inside pages- god knows why?
Second-in-command tried to be angry on me for not filing a story today. Well, I felt guilty but I had tried enough. For now, I plan to give at least five ideas in tomorrow’s meeting to make the Big Boss, Second-in-Command and the Third-in-Command happy. Hope my plenty ideas make them feel that I am a hard worker!!!

Oct 8

God it’s such a crazy place. The day I work hard, my stories are dumped. The day I take it easy and give them some crap, they get excited and take it on one. Billy says never think about page one and just keep doing the good work. But boss obviously thinks the opposite. I am confused. Billy has been working here since quite some time now so he obviously knows better than me and he is a senior too. But his seniority has barely done him any good. Just his luck.
Big boss not around. The second in command is mostly confused like me. He has no clue if he should please the readers by putting stories in the paper or he should please his favourite reporters by putting their junk in the paper.
The paper is facing a staff crunch. Most of the staff has run away fearing the boss while the rest are on sick leaves- some kind of flu has engulfed the office. Thank god, for Billy and Villy’s good sense of humour- the paper is still alive. If not anyone else, at least i would have died of boredom.