Office Office!!! – A typical day during deadline

Okay, so yet another day in office, yet another deadline and yet again the same old crib stories :D
Those much dreaded days, hours, minutes, secoonds and milliseconds are back once again. My office turns into one little zoo around the first week of every month. We are a small team and usually it so happens that the designer, the DTP guy or the writers just go missing. I mean people have better priorities in life than just delivering this 'baby' every month.

A routine scene around the first week is like this - enter office, call up the designer, the art director, the DTP guy, the photographer, production guy etc etc so that you almost wonder if you are a reporter or a tele caller. Calling up people isn't the end of your work, if pictures, fonts, e-mails , people disappear, you are supposed to arrange for them.

Calling up isn't the word actually. Literally beg these people to grace office with their presence - the magazine can't go to print without their expert contribution. The mind does wonder whether these 'professional' people with all those years of experience shouldn't be in on their own? Anyway, we understand their priorities - taking the dog for a walk, sleeping, watching a movie -are different and are far more important.

Well, this is an important learning process, you have been told, so you learn month after month.
Phew!!! How I wish they had also taught us this at the journalism school.