TNP is awesome, so far. In every way. But I do miss some things about the place I toiled at for 12 years. Like:
The way the office smelled every morning: newspapers and fresh brewed coffee. How can a workday be bad if it starts out smelling like a Sunday morning? (workday suck often triumphed over the pleasant aroma)
My plucky family of coworkers.
Proximity to shopping. There are no stores in lunchtime-walking-distance to TNP.
The patch of grass in the parking lot where I used to pitch my beach chair and read in the warm weather.
Admin privileges on my PC. Every day there is an Adobe update I can’t install. Drives me crazy.
The pride of working for the local newspaper. Love it or hate it, everyone knew of the Courier-Post. And we did good things. I believe if we weren’t owned by Gannett we’d have done even better things. But I used to see the trucks go by and smile because I was a part of that. It used to be really good.
…and that’s about it.
Hi Kim, great news, I’m truly happy for all the new doors you’ll be going through this year. I enjoyed my 5 years at the C-P, with you, Damon etc, I’m sorry to hear that it went down hill the people were truly the best part. All the best and keep blogging
I think the time we were all there together was the Golden Age for me. We grew online while being almost completely ignored by the high-up muckety-mucks who were all about print.
I agree. They didn’t know what to do with us, so they melded us with Marketing. Luckily they were a good bunch to be with too !