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Friday, 5 September 2008

And the Wankley Award goes to … disgruntled Daily Tele worker

Sophie Black writes:

The esteemed Wankley award is not just about calling a wanker when we see one, sometimes it’s about a tip of the hat to well-deserving types.

Today, we’re sending a Wankley shout out to the poor sod who works in The Daily Telegraph radio room.

Below is a copy of The Daily Telegraph radio log from a recent car accident on the Harbour Bridge.

News Ltd “employ a person, when they decide to turn up, to sit in a room no bigger then a 3 x 3m glass box… the fish bowl, as most people know it by, to monitor the emergency service radios,” our tipster told Crikey. 

“They are required to pass on information to the news desk or the journalist who may be on at the time and report information like accidents, stabbing, fires etc. As you can see when you read the last part of the radio log just how News Ltd treat their staff…”

06:05 MVA: Accident Sydney harbour Bridge: (Fire Radio)

Firey’s are on scene where a vehicle, I believe a truck, has rolled on the Harbour Bridge Police and emergency services are on scene: Pic RTA website:

06:10 Ambo’s stated that they have 1 person trapped: Emergency services are dealing with the incident:

TRUCK AND VEH HEAD ON ACCO ON THE BRIDGE AA - TRAPPED AND INJURED ARE NK -

06:18 RTA advice that five south bound lanes are blocked:

06:27 Police are securing a Landing site for the Helicopter to land on the bridge for the patient.

_Note [name of journalist] rang up asking for details and Bitched that wasn’t notified earlier. For F sake I’m still getting the details together.

Sick of this sh-t, can’t get hold of anybody when I need to and most of the time they are not interested. So do it your selves.

Find someone else to sit here for 8 hrs dumbsh-ts!

Token journalists anyway, wouldn’t know a good story; have you actually read the paper and what goes in it? Cr-p.

Radio Room now unmanned as I have had enough of this cr-p.

Disgruntled faceless worker — for standing up to, and swearing at, the man, we salute you.


3 Comments

  1. Cathy
    Posted Friday, 5 September 2008 at 9:02 pm | Permalink

    This week’s Wankley is a great testament to the Macca’s generatiions of pocket money workers who were all promoted beyond their IQ’s and EQ’s during childhood. Now in an adult workforce they’re deluded on pecking, training, experience or any other skills order with years of artificial endorsement as salad supervisor, meat manager, drinks director and end-of- the-month outlet overseer! Any wonder the token journo pulled rank on the traffic editor when he or she probably hasn’t been clued on the meaning of subordinate, colleague, respect or equal. The golden arches has left more than an obesity problem.

  2. Karen
    Posted Friday, 5 September 2008 at 5:11 pm | Permalink

    Yep! Good on him or her! The journo who bitched about it just needs to get out from up him or herself! If it comes to that they should have been chasing the meat on the road themselves.

  3. Tom McLoughlin
    Posted Tuesday, 9 September 2008 at 1:29 pm | Permalink

    Err, I think ya all are jumping to conclusions: I recognise a certain emotion here all to do with the time of morning. If I’m right its a night shift. If it’s Friday it could well be end of the weekly slog night shift. 3.30-4am the serotonin tanks. Diet trends to coffee and chocolate. When sleep deprived IQ drops 5, 10, 20 points easy. It’s worse than drunk driving. After 2 years night shift 12 to 8am saw plenty of this somewhat irrational stuff and maybe some of it was my own - hope not. Moral is - 95% of folks are hard wired to sleep at night.