How To Tell If Your News Director Hates You

11 April 2008 | 10:52 PM

We’ve all had that boss, right? You know who I’m talking about: the supervisor or manager who, in spite of our efforts to prove otherwise, thinks we’re a dim bulb, an underachiever, a weak link. Invariably, we wind up pulling the short straw for every shitty task that needs doing around the office until eventually our dignity rises up and overtakes our fear of not making the mortgage payment and we quit. Well, now imagine that you’re a mid-level reporter at a major network news operation, and that your news director can’t stand you. How do you think s/he would make you understand just how badly they want you to quit? Me, I’d guess they’d dole out an assignment like this one:

Sure, it’s not quite as awesome as when Fox News chief Roger Ailes forced one of his correspondents to get waterboarded on camera, but still one would hope that this poor reporter got the message and is safely covering agriculture news somewhere in Iowa by now.

Yikes, I’ve not heard yelping like that since the last time I watched a weather report in Florida.

[Via Gizmodo]

Posted by Andy in Comedy = Tragedy + Time