Our phones, however, could use some work. There is no caller ID, no call waiting and no signal when you have a voicemail. You don’t realize how much all those things come in handy until you don’t have them.

My complaint about the office has nothing to do with the technology, which I’d consider more than adequate. Instead, if I could fix one thing it’d be this: Our newsroom has no windows. Now, that sucks. When it rains, we don’t know. If it’s been snowing for an hour, we’re the last to know. Luckily, as a reporter I’m frequently in and out of the building, so I don’t get that closed-in feeling. I don’t know how I’d feel if I spent all day without any natural light.

Also, parking is a disaster. (But that’s a city-wide issue we can’t really remedy on our own.)

Guess I’m lucky, or just optimistic about my lot. But I think we’re doing OK here.

We both know newspapers won’t actually spend money on infrastructure, especially if it makes no real difference on the staff or the final product. But if all the best talent left, newspapers would either have to change their views or they would die.

And both options are fine by me.

@John – Is it pride or is it vanity? I thought this Samuel Butler quote would be fitting “The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.”

I know this isn’t your intent, but the first place they’ll look to save is on the editorial staff. It’s my computer or my job. Smart phone? That’s funny.