Raw corporate speak, means nothing to the ordinary person and is somewhat repulsive.

I think that people not realizing that "TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party" was a slogan is a point in his favor, tbh.

I had people try to negotiate my comic page commission prices down from base x 2.5 (ex: an inked page without color is $150 per page,) and I have to explain that comics are a lot of work and that rate is GENEROUS already.

The really distressing part are the the people who mewl about how "its so nice out today."

Bitch, it's FEBRUARY! It's not supposed to be nice out! You should be bothered that it is nice out!

Two seasons of trying very very hard to find gentle ways of phrasing how badly our team sucked. It was exhausting.

There have been many times I had to dance around topics like like how girls' tennis in this state is so uncompetative that anyone showing some hustle can be the state champ, yet our school's program still manages to end up in last place in every tournament.

Speaking as a (former) newswriter, the answer is that we rather not have that fight with editorial.

Even on innocuous topics like sports (which was my focus,) we're forced to bend the truth in the direction of the benign because otherwise we might not be able to do our jobs period.