Paroled!

For the past few weeks I have been coming in at 10PM to sit at the assignment desk since we have a shortage of assignment editors. And while I enjoyed being able to leave at 7AM, I HATE working the desk.

It's not listening to the scanners. I am good at that and I do it in my truck as well. It's not really the sitting still, as I play on the internet and watch TV. It's the fuckin' phones.

80% of the people who call our station offer valid news tips. They help us find out things that maybe the police would want kept quiet. They give us good story ideas.

20% of the people who call the station (and I mean ANY station...) are complete fucking morons. They are people who would make some of the crazy internet conspiracy theorists go 'Woooo... He's nuts!' They are people who call us and tell us what's wrong with the president. They tell us about secret underground spying that the government is doing (they're listening to you through your toilet pipes, you know...) They are people who call, scream at you about someone's hair or make-up and tell you to have them fix it.

I cannot STAND these people. And they all call at night.

Anyway, as of today I am officially released from my desk duties! We hired one of our interns (a cute one too, yay!) as a night time AE so she will be handling the nut jobs on the phones, so I can go back to dealing with the nut jobs on the street.

YAY!