Oregon Media Insiders

...do any of you work in a place where you can just stay away from work for two days unannounced without taking vacation time, without calling in sick, so that you'll be prepared to bitch out the boss?

Read this again: ["He didn’t claim to be sick, but wanted time to cool down before confronting Stearns about the butchered story and asking to be transferred to a different beat where he could cover the news “without what I perceived to be the editors' emotional desire to slant coverage of the real estate market.”]

I've seen this happen before. Management really doesn't like a guy but doen't see enough reason to fire him. Then, unfavored guy opens the door wide enough to drive a truck through and he's fired.

The lesson here isn't entirely about journalistic ethics. Sure, the real estate editor might suck. But so did the dismissed employee's tactics. He'll be darned lucky if he qualifies for unemployment benefits. Bad, bad move.