A NEWSROOM is a
workplace often regarded as unfriendly to women and I can attest to this. women
suffer abuse of different magnitudes which in most instances is perpetuated by
a mere fact that ‘We live in a men’s world.’
Sometime in 2011, the
company hosted a party at a local hotel to launch a new paper and all were
invited – men and women. Among the men, there Editors, Branch executives and
all managers who make up the list of ‘bosses’. Among the women were mostly
student journalists, primarily because they made the majority of stuff for that
paper and a few senior lady journalists who had just been there.
The launch went well as
entertainment and booze kept everyone upbeat and wishing the program could just
go on and on. However, while everyone went on about their boozing business, an
editor (one) took advantage of the situation and became the gentleman who would
fill one intern’s glass to the brim every time it appeared half empty.
The intern drank in the
comfort of the editor’s company and after the launch, the two disappeared into
what is suspected to be a place where the editor consummated the intern’s
youthfulness, before they headed to Bulawayo Athletics Club (BAC) where the
girl was eventually dumped at night without even being given money for
transport. A distressed girl who had ignored arrangements made by the company
to have everyone taken home because of the momentary sweet promises by the
editor, was left alone to find her own way home which was somewhere in Emganwini.
Left without any
option, the intern had to call her editor for assistance with transport and
sadly, the editor could not help. It is not known how the intern finally got
home but she never came back to the newsroom and as such she had to defer her
program because she could not be assessed by the university.
Here is a girl whose
education was disturbed by an irresponsible editor who could not control his
lust.
No comments:
Post a Comment