From: WLOS station manager
Re: The f-bomb and the chair
Hey Lar, We’re looking forward to having you here at the station next month. Just a quick note to get a couple of things cleared up.
First, as you know, Asheville is a pretty free-wheeling city, filled with cranks and old cusses and hippies and trustafarians and protesters of every stripe and one twit that runs his own website where he takes our news product to task. (More on that later.)
Anyway, some of the folks around the newsroom were reading your bio, you know, the one about you liking Disney World and Karen Carpenter and naming Jesus as your hero. That’s kind of freaking some people out.
You’re not planning any prayer meetings or altar calls after broadcasts are you? And you don’t mind an f-bomb or two around the workplace, right? I mean, this is a newsroom, after all. I just wanted to check in with you on that.
Also, which chair do you want at the desk? Darcel likes to sit on the left of her co-workers (if you’re looking at a newscast, she likes to be on the right side), something about her “good side” or the way she gets her weave done or something. Is that OK with you? Again, just wanted to check.
Can’t wait to get you started.