Am I being unreasonable?

[Alphathree33]

CLIFF NOTES:

- I have a weekly column in a student newspaper (it's political of a right-of-center nature)

- This week, my editor screwed up my column's headline and instead of making it "big government, big problems", she made it "equalize this, commie bitches"

- Also this week, my picture at a dance event was put in the paper without my permission and despite the fact that I asked that it be removed (embarassing)

- The picture and column were near an article about the company I work for, Sybase.

- That article was written by a "special" writer who covered the Sybase event.

- This "special" writer figured out that I work for sybase and asked me tons of questions, even took notes while I talked. He went on to e-mail me with more questions and creepy personal comments despite the fact that I declined to give him my email. (He looked it up.)

- This "special" writer who wrote the Sybase article then mailed a bunch of copies of this week's student newspaper with his article, my unwanted dance picture and my "equalize this, commie bitches" headline to about ten people at Sybase who I work with either directly and indirectly, including me.

- The papers had his name and phone number on them and said "see Sybase article, page 3/4"

- This person sent me an email this morning saying if I was not "famous" at Sybase yet, I would now be "imfamous" due to said picture and article.

Is this harassment or is he just really trying to get a job here at Sybase (trying way, way too hard)?

I don't know this guy from dirt... the first time I saw him was at the newspaper's office when he was writing the article just two days ago.

 

[olds]

Cliff notes for the cliff notes?

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Cliff notes for the cliff notes?

Guy was a dick and wrote stupid crap w/pic of Alphathree33, and sent it to where Alphathree33 works.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Wtf is he on? 😕

I'd kick his fvcking a$$, take a picture and stick it in the student newspaper with "PWNED!" as the headline, then mail that to everyone he knows.

 

[Alphathree33]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Cliff notes for the cliff notes?

Guy was a dick and wrote stupid crap w/pic of Alphathree33, and sent it to where Alphathree33 works.

The picture (from a semi-formal dance) was unrelated to my column (which is weekly) which was unrelated to his article (a one time thing) except that they are all in the same newspaper.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I'd just document as much as I could about the situation, then forget about it unless stalker-guy does something else. I'd guess he was just impressed with his own cleverness at figuring out your "secret identity" and if you ignore him he'll go away.

 

[MrDingleDangle]

what was so embarrasing about the picture?

 

[Nebor]

Sounds like you can't handle being a minor celebrity. I'd recommend you stop writing for the paper if it's too much for you.

 

[SuperPickle]

equalize this, commie bitches

I'd say that's a bit "left-of-center" :laugh:

 

[Alphathree33]

Originally posted by: Nebor
Sounds like you can't handle being a minor celebrity. I'd recommend you stop writing for the paper if it's too much for you.

I can handle it normally... (been publishing for a while)... but this week's paper had the embarassing mistakes I talked about, and the fact that this guy distributed to my coworkers... that's really what I'm looking for feedback on.

You're absolutely right, when I publish something, I have to be prepared to stand up for it.

This is really the merger of two things... one, what I wanted to publish and what did get published didn't match this week and two, there's this creepy stalker guy sending said unwanted publications to my coworkers.

 

[aplefka]

What a douche... just straight up tell your coworkers the situation and in the end it'll all come out clean.

 

[Wahsapa]

thats what happen with you deal with right-wingers 😛

 

[mugs]

Sounds like your editor is pretty unprofessional.

 

[bsobel]

- This week, my editor screwed up my column's headline and instead of making it "big government, big problems", she made it "equalize this, commie bitches"

Thats one hell of a screwup.
Bill

 

[poopaskoopa]

Originally posted by: bsobel

- This week, my editor screwed up my column's headline and instead of making it "big government, big problems", she made it "equalize this, commie bitches"

Thats one hell of a screwup.
Bill

Seriously. Typos are "screw-ups". That's in a whole new category.

 

[BuckNaked]

Is there any kind of relationship between your editor and the 'stalker' dude? Sure seems like alot of unlikey and strange coincidences coming together at once...

 

[TuxDave]

That's messed up. Get a friend and confront him. Ask him why the hell is he doing all this crap.

 

[Alphathree33]

Originally posted by: poopaskoopa

Originally posted by: bsobel

- This week, my editor screwed up my column's headline and instead of making it "big government, big problems", she made it "equalize this, commie bitches"

Thats one hell of a screwup.
Bill

Seriously. Typos are "screw-ups". That's in a whole new category.

The "commie bitches" thing was put in there as a first draft headline. We often do things like that on production night to be funny and they get changed before publication. Like for a letter to the editor we might put "some dork's letter" and them come up with a title later.

This time, though, it didn't get changed before production despite my checking and double checking it with the editor.

 

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