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CBS DEATH WATCH: HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE NEXT!!

Thought about getting out - but the hourly is OK and this is the only thing I'm good at.

Got fired first day back from my honeymoon once - that was fun.
 
onthefringe said:
Thought about getting out - but the hourly is OK and this is the only thing I'm good at.

Got fired first day back from my honeymoon once - that was fun.
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At least you got through the wedding. I got canned once two weeks after I got engaged. That was a fun six months on the beach.
 
(QUOTED FROM EARLIER POST) David, your are so full of **** sometimes I wonder if you believe what you post. "Radio is not unique" Ha ha. Are you kidding?. man, you are really out of touch. You see the business only through your warped perception. I had to let go 3 employees 2 weeks before Christmas due to budget constraints.

(MY REPLY) Let me say I have worked in non-radio companies which fire people unepxectedly right before Christmas. It is said this gets a lot of end-of-year work completed and also gets you off the first quarter 2008 budget. Companies deny any responsibility by saying you can quit any time you wish. Radio is not unique to jerks and cruelty. As radio is getting "leaner and meaner" so are other industries. It is terrible for radio and non-radio businesses alike. I feel bad when anyone loses their job, radio or not.
 
Nick said:
If you wake up and hear that your station has a completely different format, you're probably fired.
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Nah, not for me. I worked at WNEW for 7 years. I'd wake up all the time, and find the station was a different format. My key kept right on working...I think mostly because they kept forgetting that I was actually there (I worked overnights).

My big joke was that the first time I felt comfortable enough to take a vacation, I'd get laid off. Sure enough...after 7 years, I decided to actually use all of my vacation time and take a vacation during the Christmas holiday. Unbeknownst to me, that was when they flipped to Fresh. I got the call that I'd been laid off, 3 days before Christmas.

At least when I went in to sign the papers and collect my severance pay...I knew the key wouldn't open the door. No surprises.
 
How did I know I was about to get fired...

When the P.D. or G.M. would come into the control room during my shift and say "GET THE **** OUTTA HERE!"

That was usually my first clue.
 
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