Friday, September 14, 2007
The New York Times Weekender
I was feeling very silly, working 5-day weeks, when a TV commercial that has played every other commercial break for the last 18 months had promised that I could start my weekend a day early for only $3.35 a week. Why should other people have this and not me? Of course, I wondered how it works, but as the commercial says, you get the New York Times on Friday, and your weekend begins. I had only previously resisted because it sounded too good to be true.
The day after I placed my order, I went into work happily proclaiming to my manager and colleagues that my weekend now starts on Friday. From their reactions, you’d have thought they thought I was joking! As if I would joke about such a thing! So I patiently described to them how they too could have a 3-day weekend and asked what they were waiting for.
The folks at Head Office were also reluctant to believe me and the started talking about me using vacation days. When I tried explaining that when you order the New York Times Weekender, your weekend starts early, they just wouldn’t get it. They started talking about me seeing my doctor to get medication or perhaps short term disability due to stress. They talked slowly to me, in those strained forced patient voices people use when they think someone is dim-witted; irritation clearly seeping into their voices as I claimed what was rightfully mine. They talked about docking my pay and perhaps ending my employment.
As my company were just so reluctant to see sense, I contacted some head hunters about a new position. I was sure to inform them all about my New York Times subscription and 3-day weekends, but none of them called me back! I don’t understand it!
So I called the New York Times Company and the person I spoke with laughed and treated me as if I was stupid. But I ordered the New York Times, I said. Stupid people don’t order the New York Times, I said. Everyone knows that, I said.
Has anybody else found this problem? If so, would you like to join me in a class action lawsuit? Until then, I am suing the Times for my pain and suffering due to my humiliation. I feel I have lost all of the credibility I patiently built over many years. My life and career are ruined.
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The day after I placed my order, I went into work happily proclaiming to my manager and colleagues that my weekend now starts on Friday. From their reactions, you’d have thought they thought I was joking! As if I would joke about such a thing! So I patiently described to them how they too could have a 3-day weekend and asked what they were waiting for.
The folks at Head Office were also reluctant to believe me and the started talking about me using vacation days. When I tried explaining that when you order the New York Times Weekender, your weekend starts early, they just wouldn’t get it. They started talking about me seeing my doctor to get medication or perhaps short term disability due to stress. They talked slowly to me, in those strained forced patient voices people use when they think someone is dim-witted; irritation clearly seeping into their voices as I claimed what was rightfully mine. They talked about docking my pay and perhaps ending my employment.
As my company were just so reluctant to see sense, I contacted some head hunters about a new position. I was sure to inform them all about my New York Times subscription and 3-day weekends, but none of them called me back! I don’t understand it!
So I called the New York Times Company and the person I spoke with laughed and treated me as if I was stupid. But I ordered the New York Times, I said. Stupid people don’t order the New York Times, I said. Everyone knows that, I said.
Has anybody else found this problem? If so, would you like to join me in a class action lawsuit? Until then, I am suing the Times for my pain and suffering due to my humiliation. I feel I have lost all of the credibility I patiently built over many years. My life and career are ruined.
