Ok Folks, the months have passed and it's the moment you've all been waiting for, and its name is, TRUTH (you know the place, it's where Integrity, Morals, and Principles Live). I have heard all about these post and learned that Deadmen do indeed tell lies. The removal of Joe was now and always will be what it was, Warranted and Justifible. And the Sweetheart is about to set the record straight, and then...she'll be gone forever. The person who is 100% responsible for Joe's removal, is none other than Joe, that's correct, read it again folks, Joe and No Others. You've heard all the stories and tales from him, until you're either sick to your stomach over it or you're actually starting to believe it, HA! And if so, you are now officially sheep.
In the 10+ years of being Joe's right-hand I have had to lie for him, cheat for him, and cover his butt for all the ridiculous and stupid things he'd do that a child should have known better about. But It Is what He Is, a large child. And yet my loyality and respect for his position was never an issue, his actions were. Employees through the years, good solid people and workers mind you, have written complaints to whatever ownership was in place about his horrible managing ways and treatment.
Let the truth be known and understood here and now that this Sweetheart initiated no conspiracy nor linch mob on this sorry man, he did. Let the record show here and now, and as our GSM at the time witnessed himself...that on 4 occassions for two months prior to Joe's removal!...I sat in his office crying and begging him to change his ways before it was too late*. And now he calls me Judas. Judas sold Jesus Christ out for money. Yet I with every fiber of my being and spiritual soul pursued an attempt through my tears and pleas...for him to save himself and change his ways...and he laughed at the notion. Always considering himself above it all, and untouchable.
Why the * listed above? It's really simple. For months and months employee after employee coming into my office in tears at his abuse, men and women alike, too numerous times to count, though most certainly 99% majority of our employees. All asking me for help, all requesting that the owners do something about Joe's ways. And yet I didn't bring these issues to the powers that be at first...I brought them to the attention of the man himself...with pleading and heartfelt tears to change, to stop the madness. But it all fell on deaf ears, and that's how Joe created his own demise, and no other. And all the employees whose complaints were justified were asked (because it was my Job to do so, read it again people...my JOB), "Do You Wish To File A Formal Complaint", and "Answer Yea or Nay, Do You Wish To File A Formal Complaint"...an with a 100% "Yea" I did what I was asked to do, which once again was my JOB.
Something Joe doesn't know? Hum, how about the tears shed amongst these people at the relief that his reign of terror and verbal abuse was over, after years of experiencing the phycological pain of it and physical sickness over it. Has he truly convinced himself that the employees or I were responsible for his removal?! Time for the Big Picture, we're talking about a man who brought himself from a high powered public position with TBS on Television right down to the depths of the pits in smalltown print ads! The employees at that station had nothing to do with the downfall of this 'legend in his own mind' man...ITs more than obvious that his downfall all came of his own doings and through years of mastering failure.
What Joe doesn't seem or want to understand is that the point here was never about what happened to ANY of the employees after his removal. They/We all knew that our future was uncertain after his removal. We the people know that futures always are uncertain! But THE POINT was always understood that ANYTHING, Any Other Fate, was better than what they had under his rule. And you know what? We Were Right!
All the people now gone from those stations are extremely happy in their lives.
I personally believe that cc made some of the best decisions they could have! Companies need to make money to stay in business, basic ecomonics folks, it's never personal and it's not an attempt to be mean, it's just the way it's got to be. And intelligent people know this and don't take it personally. What they DO take personally, and I'm proud to say on their behalf, Refuse to be forced to live and work with...is out and out inexcusable verbal and mental abuse because someone in a position of power woke up on the wrong side of bed that morning or was fighting with their spouse, gets to come into a place of business...and take their personal problems out on their employees...simply because he Believes He Can and is Above It All Reproach.
And the ONLY two or three employees that didn't feel his wrath, basically because they were never around enough to be noticed, are the ONLY ones that stand by him today. Get a clue people, when 99.9% of the people stand up to say what it is, you can bet your butt there's something to it...and if that doesn't make you 'think' then you're a fool and there's no saving you. Joe can Spin Doctor it anyway he wants, but in the end he made his bed and is now tasting sour grapes about what he himself created. Soap Opera Over. I won't be signing on ever again, and the people who love me all do so by not contacting me about what Fools Speak, because it's all they have left in their sorry lives.
Oh Me? Well to all the people who truly know my heart and love me...I thank you for that love, your thoughts and your prayers. And you should know that I'm working at a place I absolutely love, with people I absolutely love! And for 20k More A Year than I was when I left. Why? Because I Earned It...Ain't Life Grand!
THE LESSON LEARNED: Our lives are most assuredly what each of us as individuals Make Of It. And mine didn't end up being podunk print...so you go figure. All My Love, Your Sweetheart.
