Media ghoulsCurrently working for a TV news station as a casual employee. This means working those shifts the boss has been unable to convince his fulltimers to do... ie, overnights (11pm-7am) and public holidays.
Job description - while alone in the newsroom overnight, you will:
- Ring fire, police, and ambulance services to find out whether the latest casualties are severe enough to be newsworthy (car crashes need 3 or more people killed, and house fires must be fatal.
- Field calls from 'tipsters' ringing to tell you about a car running a red light.
- Spend Christmas Day (a public holiday, as previously explained) listening to police radio: little Johnny has phoned the cops because Daddy had too much to drink and is bashing Mummy in the kitchen...
- Struggle to stay awake.
And we wonder why journalists are less popular than used car salesman?
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Job description - while alone in the newsroom overnight, you will:
- Ring fire, police, and ambulance services to find out whether the latest casualties are severe enough to be newsworthy (car crashes need 3 or more people killed, and house fires must be fatal.
- Field calls from 'tipsters' ringing to tell you about a car running a red light.
- Spend Christmas Day (a public holiday, as previously explained) listening to police radio: little Johnny has phoned the cops because Daddy had too much to drink and is bashing Mummy in the kitchen...
- Struggle to stay awake.
And we wonder why journalists are less popular than used car salesman?