I want to begin by saying thank you but I realized that people already know me for being outright with what I think and what I feel that it would be hypocrisy if I would. So, I’ll start by telling you all how disappointed I am with all of you.
In all honesty, to say that I am disappointed is an understatement. I am frustrated not only as an editor but as a member of the student publication who has been with TN my whole college life. I had been through three editors already and I know how different it has been and how life in the publication is.
When I was chosen to replace Kuya Micho as the News Editor of TN, I was both flattered and disappointed. I was flattered because I never expected that my fellow staffers will vote for me and at the same I am disappointed because I will have to lead. Despite my misgivings, I accepted the position, simply because I did not have any choice.
I was glad that we started the school year right. The writers were cooperative and were doing fine that I told myself that maybe everything will be alright and this won’t be a miserable year after-all. August came and the new writers joined us, problems started to rise. At first I thought it was all because of the problem with the printing that everything was affected. However, as the weeks pass and August became September and September became October, then November and so on, I realized that the printing is only a small part of it.
It is frustrating to see senior writers acting like newbies, writing like they haven’t written a single news article their whole life. It is frustrating to see newbies struggling to learn and not learning anything because the people who are supposed to guide them need more guidance themselves.
Writers with so much potential, this is how I would describe all of you. Unfortunately, aside from being good writers you are also irresponsible and undisciplined.
I am frustrated because no matter what I do to make you learn the value of discipline and observing deadlines, no matter how many times I reprimand you, no matter how much effort I exert to make you better individuals and writers, you prefer to remain the same. I am frustrated because instead of helping the seniors develop as writers, they regressed instead. I am frustrated because the writers that I trust most in the publication and from whom I am expecting good, if not better, write-ups became decorations in the office instead. I am frustrated as I see you lounging in the office, laughing your hearts out, watching movies, eating and enjoying your publication lives while neglecting your duties as campus journalists. I am even more frustrated when I realized that a lot of you are Mass Communication students and majority of you are writers in high school.
Many times I have reminded you of your responsibilities as campus journalists and as members of TN. Many times I gave you warnings and strikes and gave you punishments. Many times I asked Kuya Junrell and Paul to remove the internet connection and disallow you to use the internet unless you could pass your articles, but to no avail. You did not learn anything even if you were restricted from using the internet, reprimanded, and even if Amy and Lester were evicted for the same reason that majority of you were placed under probation.
Many times I asked myself what to do to you. Many times I contemplated of just giving up and resigning because I know that I am not effective as a leader. Many times I told myself that maybe the fault is not with you but with me. And yes, many times I had been tempted to choke each one of you to wake you out of your senses.
It has been said that the kind of attitude the subordinates have is a reflection of the kind of leader that they have. If your attitudes are reflections of what I am as a leader, then I say that I am a failure. I don’t know if you ever learned anything but I know that each one of you hates me because I am the cause of all your sufferings in the publication. But honestly, I don’t care if you all of you will hate me as long as you learned something and as long as I see you become better writers and people.
For the ten months that I had been your news editor, I could say without fear of contradiction that you did not develop as writers or as individuals. I guess I am also in the position to say that the seminars you’ve been through are not enough to teach you because I don’t see any improvement in your articles.
As we end this year, I hope that despite all of these you somehow learned something no matter how small it may be. I hope that I could finally see you develop in the coming school year and that you would finally realize that you are here in the publication not only to enjoy the privileges that goes with the job.
My term as a news editor has officially ended with the end of the school year. I am not relieved because I know that another nose bleeding year is waiting for me in the coming school year but somehow, I am happy that I will be leaving the position. I am still hoping that I will see you develop in the coming year. I still have my hopes high.
I had been initially tempted to write a speech full of praises and positive remarks to all of you but I told myself that it is already enough that I tolerated you for ten months. They say that the truth will set you free and I hope this did set you free. I don’t want any of you to go on believing that you deserve to be in TN just because you are good writers. I prefer to tell you the truth that being a good writer is not enough to make you stay in TN. Amy and Lester were good writers, they were even better than some of you, remember that.
I know I will hurt, irritate and embarrass a lot of you with this speech but I since I am used to being back-bitten and criticized, I preferred to push through instead. I am a leader and I am here because of all of you, and I want to give justice to the position you gave me.
To the incoming editors, I am glad that you will finally know how it is to be in our position. Maybe when you have finally experienced what we have to go through you will realize why I had to do what I do to all of you. Nevertheless, I pray you all the best.
To the writers, I know I have been reprimanding you for the whole school year and still reprimanding you for the past few minutes but I assure you that I don’t hate any of you personally. I am only doing my job as a leader and sometimes, leaders have to sacrifice friendship if it’s for the benefit of the organization.
To my fellow editors, we did our best and I don’t know about the rest of you but this is how I feel. I am glad to be working side by side with you and share those countless nosebleeding moments with you.
And to all of you, I am sorry for being a failure but I did my best. I am sorry for causing a lot of sufferings in your lives but I only did it because I want the best for all of you. And lastly I leave you this message, I want to be liked but I don’t mind being hated if that’s the price for telling the truth.
(Note: this is my outgoing speech for the farewell party on March 14.)
In all honesty, to say that I am disappointed is an understatement. I am frustrated not only as an editor but as a member of the student publication who has been with TN my whole college life. I had been through three editors already and I know how different it has been and how life in the publication is.
When I was chosen to replace Kuya Micho as the News Editor of TN, I was both flattered and disappointed. I was flattered because I never expected that my fellow staffers will vote for me and at the same I am disappointed because I will have to lead. Despite my misgivings, I accepted the position, simply because I did not have any choice.
I was glad that we started the school year right. The writers were cooperative and were doing fine that I told myself that maybe everything will be alright and this won’t be a miserable year after-all. August came and the new writers joined us, problems started to rise. At first I thought it was all because of the problem with the printing that everything was affected. However, as the weeks pass and August became September and September became October, then November and so on, I realized that the printing is only a small part of it.
It is frustrating to see senior writers acting like newbies, writing like they haven’t written a single news article their whole life. It is frustrating to see newbies struggling to learn and not learning anything because the people who are supposed to guide them need more guidance themselves.
Writers with so much potential, this is how I would describe all of you. Unfortunately, aside from being good writers you are also irresponsible and undisciplined.
I am frustrated because no matter what I do to make you learn the value of discipline and observing deadlines, no matter how many times I reprimand you, no matter how much effort I exert to make you better individuals and writers, you prefer to remain the same. I am frustrated because instead of helping the seniors develop as writers, they regressed instead. I am frustrated because the writers that I trust most in the publication and from whom I am expecting good, if not better, write-ups became decorations in the office instead. I am frustrated as I see you lounging in the office, laughing your hearts out, watching movies, eating and enjoying your publication lives while neglecting your duties as campus journalists. I am even more frustrated when I realized that a lot of you are Mass Communication students and majority of you are writers in high school.
Many times I have reminded you of your responsibilities as campus journalists and as members of TN. Many times I gave you warnings and strikes and gave you punishments. Many times I asked Kuya Junrell and Paul to remove the internet connection and disallow you to use the internet unless you could pass your articles, but to no avail. You did not learn anything even if you were restricted from using the internet, reprimanded, and even if Amy and Lester were evicted for the same reason that majority of you were placed under probation.
Many times I asked myself what to do to you. Many times I contemplated of just giving up and resigning because I know that I am not effective as a leader. Many times I told myself that maybe the fault is not with you but with me. And yes, many times I had been tempted to choke each one of you to wake you out of your senses.
It has been said that the kind of attitude the subordinates have is a reflection of the kind of leader that they have. If your attitudes are reflections of what I am as a leader, then I say that I am a failure. I don’t know if you ever learned anything but I know that each one of you hates me because I am the cause of all your sufferings in the publication. But honestly, I don’t care if you all of you will hate me as long as you learned something and as long as I see you become better writers and people.
For the ten months that I had been your news editor, I could say without fear of contradiction that you did not develop as writers or as individuals. I guess I am also in the position to say that the seminars you’ve been through are not enough to teach you because I don’t see any improvement in your articles.
As we end this year, I hope that despite all of these you somehow learned something no matter how small it may be. I hope that I could finally see you develop in the coming school year and that you would finally realize that you are here in the publication not only to enjoy the privileges that goes with the job.
My term as a news editor has officially ended with the end of the school year. I am not relieved because I know that another nose bleeding year is waiting for me in the coming school year but somehow, I am happy that I will be leaving the position. I am still hoping that I will see you develop in the coming year. I still have my hopes high.
I had been initially tempted to write a speech full of praises and positive remarks to all of you but I told myself that it is already enough that I tolerated you for ten months. They say that the truth will set you free and I hope this did set you free. I don’t want any of you to go on believing that you deserve to be in TN just because you are good writers. I prefer to tell you the truth that being a good writer is not enough to make you stay in TN. Amy and Lester were good writers, they were even better than some of you, remember that.
I know I will hurt, irritate and embarrass a lot of you with this speech but I since I am used to being back-bitten and criticized, I preferred to push through instead. I am a leader and I am here because of all of you, and I want to give justice to the position you gave me.
To the incoming editors, I am glad that you will finally know how it is to be in our position. Maybe when you have finally experienced what we have to go through you will realize why I had to do what I do to all of you. Nevertheless, I pray you all the best.
To the writers, I know I have been reprimanding you for the whole school year and still reprimanding you for the past few minutes but I assure you that I don’t hate any of you personally. I am only doing my job as a leader and sometimes, leaders have to sacrifice friendship if it’s for the benefit of the organization.
To my fellow editors, we did our best and I don’t know about the rest of you but this is how I feel. I am glad to be working side by side with you and share those countless nosebleeding moments with you.
And to all of you, I am sorry for being a failure but I did my best. I am sorry for causing a lot of sufferings in your lives but I only did it because I want the best for all of you. And lastly I leave you this message, I want to be liked but I don’t mind being hated if that’s the price for telling the truth.
(Note: this is my outgoing speech for the farewell party on March 14.)
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