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GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING WORM INFESTED GOAT SCREWING ASSHOLE LICKING SHIT EATING TURLEY SONS OF BITCHES. JUST BECAUSE WE’RE A CAMPUS PUBLICATION DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN SCREW US IN THE ASS AND EXPECT US TO FUCKING TAKE IT LIKE A PRISON BITCH, YOU GERBIL CRAMMING PUTRID PILES OF TURKEY VOMIT! I’LL SEE YOUR GUTTER FUCKER MONKEY SUCKING ASSES IN HELL, YOU PEDOPHILIAC CARRION GRUBBING PIECES OF SHIT
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I suppose it’s partly our fault, but not entirely- we were warned, as new editors of Scrutiny magazine, that Turley was prone to exaggerate printing dates. We assumed, however, that plenty of notice and a reasonable period of time would be sufficient.
Scrutiny is a magazine that comes out every semester before pre-registration, designed to help students in the process. We give out student evaluation sheets in classes and collect them at the end of the year, calculate mathematical analyses of data, spend hours writing fair and evenhanded reviews, and we expect that shelling out $1700 to print the magazine BY PRE REGISTRATION will get us the magazine BY PREREGISTRATION so that our work does not come to naught.
Our editor-in-chief and Turley agreed to have it done by MONDAY. Mondays comes and goes. Tuesday comes and goes. I call Turley Tuesday afternoon, during which they hedge and give the “oh, um, there were proofing delays” excuse. Priceless. “I need it tomorrow and AT THE ABSOLUTE LATEST on Thursday” I tell him. “Ahh, um, that shouldn’t be a problem.” After that, he grills me about pre-registration dates perhaps thinking that, because pre-reg lasts two weeks he can put off bringing them until later? I don’t think so.
So I just get a call- “Umm, we’ll have it there at, uh, 8:30am tomorrow. We don’t have any drivers left today.” Turley, you motherfucking piece of shit, you’re all out of excuses! “How much of a discount will we receive because our printing is so late?” “uhh, umm, probably between 5%-8% off. Your invoice will be included with your copies.”
I don’t know very much about printing, but I do know that asking for something done on Monday and receiving it on Thursday is atrocious. Does anyone know if this 5%-8% thing is fair? It seems to me that we should be getting more than that for so much useless delay- especially since, by this point, many students will have already registered for classes having much less of a use for our magazine.