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ktrh / cc - sure are a lot of job openings -

Job freeze is over April 1st, which is a week away. Normal hiring procedures take 2 weeks if still employed.
 
Apply today! Join the few! The shaken! The discouraged!
 
zork said:
guess they did not get the hiring freeze memo:

740 reporter http://www.tab.org/job-bank/find-job/job-details/1955/

740 reporter http://www.tab.org/job-bank/find-job/job-details/1945/

am imaging http://www.tab.org/job-bank/find-job/job-details/1927/

790 board op http://www.tab.org/job-bank/find-job/job-details/1908/

740 ast nws dir http://www.tab.org/job-bank/find-job/job-details/1769/

don't see one for:

740 AMD traffic anchor -- i guess nat fitz got it
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They've actually hired an assistant news director and a reporter recently. So I am not sure how the hiring freeze supposedly effected that.
 
No Natalie is still there. I got it. I know I had a pretty thick file but I got written up for things like driving too fast in the parking garage - can management actually do that? I guess so. I am up because my body is so used to going to work. Most people that get let go don't call and beg for their jobs back because they are too busy cussing the managers out. I personally think you have to look at the talent that they got and oh my for such little money. I took an 8 thousand dollar pay cut to join CC and still gave them everything. They doubled my work load because they fired two other traffic anchors and I carried everything out flawlessly and even offered to the split which obviously was a mistake because the west loop at 4 sucks. If you are going to fire me please do it for something REAL - not being one minute late. I will never not call the newsroom w/breaking news - I will always help Total Traffic - I have no hard feelings - I just want to go back to work and do what I was meant to do - I guess I will get used to them not wanting me. Until then I can't eat or sleep.
 
Good luck, Elizabeth. You're a pro and you will land somewhere, where your efforts are appreciated. Keep plugging away; you'll be back on the air.
 
I guess I will get used to them not wanting me. Until then I can't eat or sleep.

Elizabeth,

When I experienced nearly the same abrupt end to my time with CC, I went through about a month of feeling awful. I was kicked to the curb so quickly that the move hit me like a ton of bricks. I cried for days, didn't feel like eating, sleep was a wasted effort, (as my CC time seemed to be, then, and still now) and attempts to go through every day activities were difficult for being so patterned to the "radio routine."

I struggled, coming to terms with the fact that the minute I was let go.... that was it. No more contact with the people with whom I'd held what I believed to be professional friendships, and no more support from them or from management. It was if the time and years I'd put forth didn't mean a thing to anyone.

I grieved for a time; then, woke one morning (still patterned toward a morning routine) and told myself, "This is crazy." I realized I gave CC the absolute best I could give them and if my best wasn't good enough, then I didn't need them. I'm wise enough to know when I'm not wanted; they no longer wanted me and once I convinced myself I would be okay, I realized how much better off I'd be and was from then forward, even if I still was left to find other employment.

I have been okay and, Elizabeth, you will be okay, too, regardless of where the path leads you. I wish you the best of luck, but please don't be too hard on yourself. Keep on being the professional you are and someone, somewhere, someday soon will take notice and honestly appreciate you. In my opinion, I'm not sure if CC is capable to appreciating anyone, these days. The days of radio and appreciation going hand in hand seem to be a forgotten memory, in this era. It's all about the $$$, and to management, who cares who's screwed over in the process???!!!

Keep your chin up....
 
I can't thank you all enough for such the support. Let me give you an idea of a typical day for me. I"d work at Clear Channel doing traffic on KTRH/Sunny and AM790 from 5 until 12:30 and then go downtown to HCC to teach Speech from 1-3 - go home and get kids off the bus, make dinner and head off to HCC Southwest to teach from 6 to 10p. I was working two full time jobs to put my husband through nursing school. I am still a teacher for HCC but I teach in the afternoons so whatever job I find next HAS TO BE MORNINGS and its killing me because I had it made at Clear Channel. I know I will get over it. I will never forget when Chris McMurray fired me and Johnjay from the 93Q morning show - well she got it not that much later on so what comes around goes around. I do not have hard feelings but at the end of the day, I feel like I can do traffic better than most and for none of management to even respond is sad. I teach because I like to give back. Just because you are a manager doesn't mean you have to be the stereotypical prick. Oh well - it will get better. I just layed down a demo for the competition (Traffic company) didn't take them long to call me and what do you know - they are paying WAY MORE!
-trying to smile
 
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It isn't any fun getting fired. Feelings get hurt, ego's get bruised... but in the end, this is only a small moment in your life. It is bad now, but down the road it's only a small blip on your "life' radar. It'll pass. hang in there.
 
At least the person who decided to engineer your firing didn't hug you in the hallway and then rush home to begin a vicious, irrational smear campaign against you on the industry board, the way Fixx did with me. He managed to spill the contents of my employee file to the board without bothering to do so correctly, took whatever position he had as laison between Vince and the staff and manipulated both ends, and then hid behind his keyboard to spew whatever vile things that it was that had been bubbling beneath the surface for a year and a half that he wasn't quite brave enough to say to my face. While the others who worked with me every day had nothing but nice things to say about me and my work, Fo-Fo acted like I killed his boyhood puppy. It was a bit of a mystery until he gave himself away last week, because, like I said, my last face-to-face contact with him had been his offer of a hug when he assurred me he'd properly told Vince that my parking stubs proved I was in the building on time every day (despite having to drive over to the Heights several times a week in the afternoons to try and meet with a station client because the sales guy didn't consider it to be enough money to go pick up the check himself, so the burden of that fell on the parttimer who was working with the club owner, wow, impressive). So in many cases, it's better that they don't talk to you at all than go online and trash you with irrationally-motivated, anonymous falsehoods.
 
I teach because I like to give back. Just because you are a manager doesn't mean you have to be the stereotypical prick. Oh well - it will get better. I just layed down a demo for the competition (Traffic company) didn't take them long to call me and what do you know - they are paying WAY MORE!

Sometimes, I think manager "prick" types sit around and think of the most cost-effective means for the company and, yet, the most hurtful way for the employee in their turfing of someone to the curb. They don't give a flip about hard feelings or how their actions will come back to haunt them later; they only see the short-term. "We'll screw you now and worry about having screwed ourselves, way on down the road."

Elizabeth, I commend you for laying down a demo and jumping back into the game so soon. I'm so burned out by how I was treated that I've completely switched directions in my life/career and will not likely ever do the commercial radio gig again. I'll never say never as nothing in life is certain. This much I do know: managers can knock us down, but they can never knock us out. We enjoy what we do, too much.

I still respect radio and admire those who brave all the cuts and corporate crap to stick with it; it just isn't for me, any longer. I thought radio was my outlet for giving back, but I have certainly learned, the hard way, how wrong I was. I got too tired of being jerked around all the time to deal with the uncertainty and headaches, any longer. Being tossed aside, with little to no notice, and then, having messages that I sent to personnel (who I thought appreciated my efforts) deleted without them even being opened was the last straw for me. I've found other ways to make a difference with the talent I have and as Edward said, the radio time was a "blip" and nothing more than a "blip" on the radar screen. When all is said and done, I'll look back on the times I had (the moments I enjoyed) and not the way it all ended. I'd prefer not to think of the way it all ended; doing so just raises my blood pressure!
Again, lots of luck.
 
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