http://www.kcci.com/news/14918070/detail.html
Here's a story that I'm not surprised to see. Why? Si, I've done it. Working on that novel on the job. I work as an administrative assistant too so I can see the writer's side of the story. Sometimes when I'm not taking messages for my boss, fetching his breakfast, coffee, and dry cleaning, and working on the endless streams of paperwork, there is down time.
I could do the Martha Stewart thing and think up ways to keep my office sparkling clean, germ free, and with a hint of vanilla scent. But why? I work in a building that was built badly in the 60's and half the people who've worked there for any length of time have "sick building syndrome." Like me, they find ways to sneak in little personal things on company time. Yes, it's wrong and the excuse everyone does it isn't a good one. Still.
Many talk on their cell phone. Many text message. Others collect thousands of fonts and crash out their work computers or do cross stitch under the desk. Me? Si, I sneak in the occasional writing scene. I don't type it on my computer (I'd get caught). I write in a small notebook that has a label "todo" lists. That's too boring so people aren't even curious. Then at night I transfer it on to my computer at home. I'm a very fast typist so it takes no time.
SHOULD I do that? Should that woman have written her novel at work. Probably not. But that's what we do. We love to write, we love to dream. We love romance.
Feliz Navidad!
Lauren
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Fired for writing a romance novel on the job
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hey-- I DID it too! I am staying anonymous because somebody might google my name even though I am retired. I worked for the government and was a secretary. I was bored at work one day and hated my boss. So to have something to do I started typing a novel. And I had to be super careful because I knew others in the vicinity could hear me pecking away. I had to be stealthful. It took a year but I got it done. And it is published now electronically. At first I saved it to my C drive, then started saving it to diskettes. Later on when I started writing erotica I used a flash/thumb drive I carried back and forth every day. But I still had to be super careful. I also wasted tons of time, paper, and toner.
what is wrong with typing at work? at least we are staying in our cubicles in "Cubicle Hell." and we are alert to the stupid phone ringing for the mgr even though the idiot has voice mail. Yet he/she refuses to use it. To be honest, I hated working. Yes other women snuck and read paperback books and cross-x'ing as you said. It was either that or stare at the wall or gossip. And I hated either of those. If they asked the supervisor politely if they could do either of the above things, they were always told "the only reading material we could have out in view was company approved newsletters or computer manuals." WHOO HOO was that hot reading or what?
Anon #1 I'm a huge ebook reader fan so I have to wonder if I read your book. I hope so. =)
Isn't the flash drive a wonderful thing? I wrote the greatest scene to the story I finished yesterday and saved it on my flash. Yes I wrote it on my lunch hour and it was a very naughty scene. LOL
Thank you for visiting me!
anon #2 - Right on! Read company approved newsletters? right. I'm lucky that I'm in an older building of a research center so I have an actual office with a door! (The things that matter, right? LOL) Still people barge in without knocking, including the supervisor who wants me to run errands, to pick up his dry cleaning, and I have to be careful. Like you, I'd rather write smut than create problems for other people by being a gossip or worse a snitch/kiss ass. No way!
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