I remember being a a newbie at TNN in '96.
Diamond P Sports was in the house to cut another NHRA Today show. It was my first NHRA edit and I was eager to impress. The usually booked a suite for a whole week and 4- 4.5 days was the norm.
I went out of my way to kick ass. I had that show cut to time in a day and by mid day on day two, we were polished and done. I hugged and high fived the client and strutted proudly to my supervisors office to boast the new NHRA Today time record.
Dude flipped. "no you are NOT done! You get in there and dance if you have to but Diamond P is booked for the entire week!"
at the same place, I was almost fired for not bagging Dick Clark Productions on a deadline to make a scheduling point.
Somtimes doing a good job is not the objective at all, man. Again, it revolves around who is callin the shots.
