Yes, I never did place any bet in the sports betting pool that was run by Jeff, who was another reporter at the office. Technically speaking, I do not think that he should be doing that, it is sort of distracting in the office when they are calling out for people to place their bets.
However, it was Jeff who recommended a book titled The Weekly Journalist or something along those lines, some such title probably containing the word Weeklywhich I bought a copy of it and the book was really quite good at explaining the strategy of working for a weekly newspaper, in contrast to the dailies. I used to have a copy of that somewhere.
But of course now that the cost of paper is out of sight, and everything is online already anyway, that book might not be as helpful as it once was. But at that time, The Weekly Reporter was the game of work, because anyway weat least tried to have our self-respect at work also in our way, even if sometimes there were obstacles that we could not overcome.
