One wonders if some advocacy group will run a similiar study for copy editors:<p>"A recent report shows that 46 percent of all copy editors between $18,000 and $25,000 a year have had suicidal thoughts in the last year. Statistically, the highest number of copy editors contemplating suicide also reported the following indicators:<p>-- Bad break-room coffee, 62 percent -- Being forced to lay out "Senior Citizen Calendar" on a weekly basis, 47 percent -- Editing more than six mind-numbing municipal meeting stories in one shift, 78 percent -- Multiple clashes with city editor over late copy, 59 percent -- Choosing between Liza Minnelli and Ozzy Osbourne items for "Celebrities In The News" column, 44 percent -- Being scheduled to work three straight national holidays in a row, 71 percent -- Losing headline-writing argument that technically, Martha Stewart is not a "diva," 64 percent -- Three system-network crashes or more in a night, 89 percent -- Being forced to accommodate stories written at twice their budgeted length, 97 percent -- Inability to avoid overhearing pregnant co-worker rattle on at excruciating length with colleagues about episiotomies and dilated cervixes, 39 percent -- Getting stuck with Page A1 jumps at least 20 inches too long for Page A2 six minutes before deadline, 66 percent<p>Anybody have more to add?
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