John Lee Incident.

I have to admit that in newspaper I'm quite bossy and controlling; that's probably why I can't work with John Lee, ever--because he is so much like how I am.

Yesterday he asked me to do the layout for his page, I accepted. Well, because, frankly speaking, his aesthetic sense in layout did not impressed me much last year. I rather do it myself. Today we ran into a problem with a long comic (a vertical column strip). The comic was very detailed and look very impressive so I don't want to risk the quality by over stretching it although it would look much nicer if it's really big (maybe). I admit that I'm not too sure with how much exactly can a picture be stretched so I try to go with the comic's dimension as displayed in photoshop (6in) and try not to stretch it beyond 6 in long. John Lee, on the other hand, seems to have some unusual faith in the resolution of this particular jpeg image and believed that we can stretch it to fit almost the entire length of the tabloid paper without losing quality. I told him that I'm not going to do it because the artist spent A LOT of time on this I don't want to ruin it. His response was:
"hmm...ok. Can I change it then [after I do my layout]? I think I'm going to change it."

At this point I exploded and yelled at him. The underlying text is obviously "ok do whatever you want but I'm going to change it based on my opinion at the end anyway."

How am I supposed to continue working on this particular page if the editor implies that he's going to undermine my work anyway at the end? I was giving my "professional" opinion because HE ASKED me to do his page. I assumed that he gave me trust--and I was pretty surprised. But obviously he did not give me ANY trust. All he showed was skepticism and distrust. I can see how I'm trying to have things my way too, aka being a control freak, but I just don't understand how he can be so obnoxious like this.

Finally. Now I'm going to put this behind me.