I just now caught up with Scott Yost’s Rhino column celebrating his nine years as Guilford County beat reporter.
As Scott’s fellow reporter at the now-defunct Triad Business News, I noted with interest his description of our former employer:
I’ve been about 30 times happier at The Rhino than I ever was at that sad place that, to this day, reminds me of some sort of twisted combination of the work place in Office Space and the office Tom Hanks works in at the start of Joe Versus the Volcano.
OK, it wasn’t the New York Times, and Scott was certainly witness to a fair amount of my frustration over various working conditions, which —considering today’s state of the economy—seems somewhat immature and petty. What can I say—- I wasn’t quite as thankful just to have a job in those days.
Bottom line, however, is Triad Business News was an important stepping stone to where I am today. On that note, a word of gratitude is in order for the man who hired me— Tom Russell, then editor of TBN and frequent target of frustration.
I would also be remiss not to send a shout-out to JLF —-president John Hood, CJ publisher Jon Ham, former CJ editor Richard Wagner and current editor Rick Henderson —- for keeping me gainfully employed. And I don’t have to wear a tie, and I don’t have to be in my cubicle.
