Love it! It was 2001, September 11th to be exact, and I started my 8am-4pm shift at the Dayton Daily News when I was an hour and a few minutes into it, the planes crashed into the towers and the Pentagon.
The only website person, who also worked the overnight shift, had gone home and they couldn’t reach her. The photo director came racing down to my floor and commandeered me to run the website all day — just me and the AP feed to update the site all day, with local content as the reporters found local connections. Apparently I was the only person in the entire building who knew how to code and update a website.
It was wild, but it also change how newspapers saw their online presence. 9/11/2001 was the day media changed forever.
I didn’t smoke a cigarette or drink a 40 in my bosses office, but I did quietly leave a year later for many of the same reasons. Love your elevator story.
