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STICKBOY

Its travel time ... Lets play a game.. like many will in the car going to the beach. I start with a sentance or two
the next person adds a few it goes on and on.... It could be fun...

It's the Friday afternoon before Labor day at the local hometown station and Suzi the sales person shows up with a late order from a new client. A new furniture store wants to run 10 30s on Saturday. The Traffic Manager says."............

Next
 
No problem! We'll just make whomever is on duty in the afternoon hand-log everything, even if it takes until 8pm on a Friday night before a vacation weekend. After all, the Boss says all that matters is that we make our numbers. (And get the sales people on their way to vacation early on Friday morning!) :D
 
No, no, no...the Traffic Manager doesn't even figure into this story yet. What has happened is that the GM, who already left early to start the weekend, has told Traffic & copy that the logs cannot be scheduled or printed until the absolute close of business at 530pm, thereby seeing to it, that every last possible piece of business can get in. So....traffic & copy sit around and tap their toes, and at 529 in comes the order. It's got an odd schedule, so that traffic has to go in line by line by line to place it into the log. Then of course the spot has to be written AND approved BEFORE anything can go on the log. The smiling salesweasel then chirps.."Hope everyone has a GREAT weekend" and flounces out the door. Copy gets the spot written and recorded, but cannot get an answer from the client. So 730pm rolls around and Traffic & Copy are still waiting. Finally...the client calls back at 745pm..(He was bizzy dontcha know) and the spot's OK...BUT....he needs a small change. The word "or" in the 8th line needs to be changed to "and" so if you'll do that, and then call him back so he can HEAR it again, that would be great! At 830pm, the copy's finally approved, and Traffic can begin to print the logs. The Copy department feels sorry for Traffic because they've been screwed too, so Copy waits around for Traffic, and they finally leave for their weekend at 928pm. As they go out to the parking lot, they've decided that it's Miller Time, and off they go to Uncle Ignatz's Pub for some cool ones.......
 
But wait.. there's no copy and they want to hear the ad before we run it and make changes.. and it almost 4 pm now on Friday...
 
The music was fine untill the clients wife got in the picture. She thought is was too loud and wants it redone, the only person left is the cleaning lady who tells her..................................next
 
I think anyone who has ever worked in radio can relate to that story,how about the sales manager dropping of "dubs' that
needed to be on within the next hour. I remember hand writing many a spot on the weekend logs after the traffic manager
was gone ah the good ol days!
 
Fire the whole bunch because they are useless, just like most sales managers. Hire friends cause they will cover for you.
 
I hope you all realize I was just being sarcastic about hiring friends...it's not a good thing.
 
Here's a story----back in the 80's I was production manager for a station back in Montana....one of our clients was a very successful locally owned hoagie shop but all the profits were going up the owners nose.
She was in a nose-candy fueled phone call with her sales rep telling her what she wanted in her spot. The sales rep gave up and handed the phone to me since I would be producing it. I wrote down everything she said, produced the spot exactly as she wanted it, called her back and played it. Her response? "That's not what I wanted." I told her it was EXACTLY what she told me she wanted and she said "Yeah it is---keep it the same but change it." Thats a direct quote. I sat on the spot for two hours, called her back and played her the exact same spot with no changes. Her response? "Why didn't you do that the first time?"
Unfortunately you have to deal with this even if the clients AREN'T stoned!
 
Keeth said:
Here's a story----back in the 80's I was production manager for a station back in Montana....one of our clients was a very successful locally owned hoagie shop but all the profits were going up the owners nose.
She was in a nose-candy fueled phone call with her sales rep telling her what she wanted in her spot. The sales rep gave up and handed the phone to me since I would be producing it. I wrote down everything she said, produced the spot exactly as she wanted it, called her back and played it. Her response? "That's not what I wanted." I told her it was EXACTLY what she told me she wanted and she said "Yeah it is---keep it the same but change it." Thats a direct quote. I sat on the spot for two hours, called her back and played her the exact same spot with no changes. Her response? "Why didn't you do that the first time?"
Unfortunately you have to deal with this even if the clients AREN'T stoned!
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Wasn't The Pickle Barrel was it??????
 
Nope, the place was called DAGWOOD'S. And here's another funny thing. I said to her one day "Oh Dagwood---just like in the comics, huh?" She had never heard of the Dagwood and Blondie comic---the name was given to the shop by her Grandma.
 
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