Help! I’m an editor about to drop dead and someone else just quit
I started this job six months ago. I knew it would be a lot of work, right. I’m editing three titles with some crossover. What I didn’t know was how inexperienced exactly half of the reporters are which means in one title, I have to be the lead reporter. As in, they didn’t know what a deadline was when I started. Some of them still don’t understand it.
In another title, the best up-and-coming reporter just handed in her notice.
I’m sitting in McDonalds eating chips in lieu of having a panic attack, which is what I actually want to do.
I’m overworked to the fking bones, I’ve dropped my standards to about as low as I can stand, I’ve cut the literal number of pages in the paper down, but I’m going to be dead in a year. I’ve delegated, which had alternately left me with a spelling mistake in the masthead, and pages not sent to the printer, because that’s what happens if I don’t do almost literally everything myself.
Management are all What About the Website?!?!?!
I can’t quit or change jobs as I’m in the middle of moving house so my finances need to stay steady and stable. I don’t care about their fucking clicks.
Posted Sep 1, 2026, 4:33 PM UTC