Off past Monday for three day weekend. As I'm leaving Friday, boss tells me the paper is adding four more pages. Tuesday is layout, which takes hours.
I miraculously get stories done in time. However my stories aren't for my section. I'm still waiting on those. I received the last one at 4pm, shift is typically until 5pm, but I'm salary. Files are broken into parts with nonsensical naming patterns that don't match labels, which takes time to track down. Few things are formatted and I have to do grammatical spot edits (the contributor gets paid more than I do btw.)
Duplicate stories written by different stringers (but commissioned by boss.) Do I block them together to make a theme? Or do I distance them so people are less likely the whole bottle?
Get it all to press at 6:49pm, but have meeting at 7pm.
Today was crash day and cleanup server, casually tinkering a story (I have 5 due Tuesday, but I earned the break). An hour to close, Boss knocks on door, "I need to talk to you about deadlines. We need 4 pages worth of content tomorrow by noon and I need ideas."
I now have three stories to do by noon, in addition to my regularly scheduled meeting with the governor at 1pm.
Boss could have told me ahead of time and I wouldn't have slacked. Boss could have also come in earlier than 3 hours late. (and left 10mins early)
Summary: Disorganized Boss makes life inefficient