Election Day

Ugh. I already hate my job. Having to work on such a chaotic, insanity inducing day is just hell. Fucking hell. And everybody in my office is crazy. Really crazy. For example, on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the craziest…we average about a 7 on regular days. And it fluctuates something like this…we see on CNN that there’s breaking news so it shoots up to a 7.5. We get ONE email about some sort of possible emergency and/or disaster…it shoots up to an 8. We get a few more emails about said disaster…9. It’s been on CNN for more then three minutes…9.5. We get the orders to find satellite trucks, camera men, producers, correspondents…the office starts to look and sound more like a trauma center than our happy little fishbowl where we usually sit and watch TV. Once the crew is on the road to the problem, the crazy averages around a 9. This, of course, is all dependent about how fast the crew can get there. If they think we might miss going live, it averages about a 10…if it’s real tight…a 10.5. It stays around a 10.5 until all the initial tapings and crap are done. Anyway…the moral of the story is that everybody I work with has been buzzing around at a 9 for the past two weeks, and Election Day…shit…I know they’re gonna top out around 15. And I wasn’t looking forward to it at all. NOT AT ALL.

But, now that it’s over I can surprisingly say that it wasn’t that bad. It could have been worse. There was actually some time where we were a little bored. Or at least I was. In fact, at one point my boss wanted to know who interrupted one of our feeds to Asia…

Boss: (slightly frantic) Who switched the India feed?

A chorus of “Not me’s” was heard and I just stared at him blankly for a moment.

B: Unless there’s a link to it on my facebook page, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t me.

He just shot me a look and ignored me…and then a few minutes later said,

Boss: Facebook page? Can’t you even pretend like you’re being productive?

I just laughed. But, inside, what I was really thinking was that facebook and myspace are pretty productive. Seriously, I had just become friends with somebody from college who I hadn’t seen in a few years. I got more satisfaction out of that than anything at #B# News.

So that’s how work went yesterday. I did notice the crazy level starting to go up around 10:45pm last night…shortly before they were going to announce that Obama won. So what did I do…I packed up my stuff and headed out. I was only working until 11p, and God knows I didn’t want to get stuck there!