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Part Timer Fired over Myspace rant

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silentsquealer

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Former night jock, C.J. the D.J. was let go
from Rock 104-9 due to a rant posted on his myspace page.

This is something I've heard other people getting in trouble for in the past
with ranting on their blogs or having "inappropriate" pictures on their myspace's.
 
In the news today.....

The University of Texas bounced one of their highly recruited players (although not a starter) off the team for some anti-Obama remarks he posted on his Facebook page.

Young job seekers have been advised over and over not to post anything that prospective employers could use against them in hiring.

Parents have taken action on their children for inappropriate, or unwise, 'admissions' on social pages.

Bottom line - these are public sites. Don't publish what you don't want the world to know.
 
The football player's "anti-Obama remarks" were, "Get the hunters...there's a ######er in the whitehouse." You want to express your views, fine. You want to issue a vulgar threat against the President-Elect of the United States, best of luck in your new location.
 
Finding out about what happened to CJ really made me angry. Being very close to me, my grandmother is very aware of happenings in the radio biz. She's Jewish and on more than 5 occasions she referred to Cumulus' actions "like the Gestapo". If you ask former employees about how Cumulus treated them, you'll find that my grandmother wasn't too far off. I bet even current employees will tell you off the record how nasty they are.
 
landtuna said:
In the news today.....

The University of Texas bounced one of their highly recruited players (although not a starter) off the team for some anti-Obama remarks he posted on his Facebook page.

Young job seekers have been advised over and over not to post anything that prospective employers could use against them in hiring.

Parents have taken action on their children for inappropriate, or unwise, 'admissions' on social pages.

Bottom line - these are public sites. Don't publish what you don't want the world to know.
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When one thinks about it...pretty much ANYTHING one posts online can come back and hurt you sooner or later.

Retail is a good example. While Wal-Mart could care less if you post online that they suck, some other chains like Kohls for example aren't so forgiving. My wife used to work for them and she knew of at least three cases over the years where Kohls had fired employees for posting things about Kohls online. One was bashing the chain over its anti-union stance and the other two over the posting of "private company information" online.

Another good example are amusement/theme parks. While it seems the radio and other media companies have no problem with sites such as this one where people talk about "bloodbaths" , layoffs or even discuss plain rumors like possible format changes if they did when was the last time a company like Clear Channel demanded that this site track down an ISP?

Meanwhile on the many of amusement park websites out there, to post something like "Cedar Fair laid off 20 at Ohio's Kings Island" for example or even "rumors" of a park closing, quite often such posts get deleted. Why? So many of these parks look at those websites and if they see something they don't like often they email the webmasters, saying they will sue them or whatever, and if these parks have even the slightest feeling that the post could have been from one of their own employees its not unusual they would ask the webmaster to trace back the ISP address either. Since many of those theme park websites are run by young people, often they do what the "big guys" such as Cedar Fair or Six Flags ask them to do.

And we thought radio was a "strange" business ! ! !
 
I know that there are a lot of companies out there that fire their employees over stuff like that, but specific to radio, I hear most of these stories come out of Cumulus stations. Consider the following:

I have a close friend who worked in an Iowa cluster. He worked about 70 hours a week for less than 23K a year. Because they had no webmaster at the time, he offered to help on a particular station because he had some limited knowledge of web design. After about 2 weeks, he was called into the gm's office and verbally assaulted and humilated because the gm and pd (who had a personal vendetta) didn't like the way it looked. He was suspended 3 days with no pay. If that isn't bully and evil behavior, I don't know what is. Keep in mind that NO WHERE in his contract was there a clause that suggested he was responsible for website updates. Afterall, he was an on-air person--NOT A WEBMASTER. I told him he should have sued them for the 200 bucks or so, but he let it go. I hear stories like this almost on a weekly basis from friends who work in several different Cumulus clusters. It starts from the top down. With that being said, the Dickey's need to get professional psychological help.
 
With all due respect to this guy...

All jobs are exactly what you make them. Whining and complaining on a blog will get you absolutely nowhere.

If you don't like what you're doing and don't like where you work. GET A NEW JOB

I don't mean to sound cold or cruel, but it's really not that difficult.

If you do have a job and you're happy, cherish it and never take it for granted.

If you have some constructive (read: constructive) ideas, take your boss out to lunch and talk it over. Or better yet grab a beer at 5. They'll take you more seriously and if they don't listen to what you have to say you're way more likely to keep your job than ranting on the Internet.
 
Some people think they are protected by the first amendment when they post negative things about their employer on line. Many don't realize that the constitution protects you from the government not your employer. You don't always have free speech at the work place.
 
I think it's bull. It's even more bull since I never get to fire ANYONE! And I want to! All these dumb peopler should leave the firing up to me. It's not fair they get to do it and I don't. That is so stupid!
 
Countrykev said:
With all due respect to this guy...

All jobs are exactly what you make them. Whining and complaining on a blog will get you absolutely nowhere.

If you don't like what you're doing and don't like where you work. GET A NEW JOB

I don't mean to sound cold or cruel, but it's really not that difficult.

If you do have a job and you're happy, cherish it and never take it for granted.

If you have some constructive (read: constructive) ideas, take your boss out to lunch and talk it over. Or better yet grab a beer at 5. They'll take you more seriously and if they don't listen to what you have to say you're way more likely to keep your job than ranting on the Internet.
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After reading the MySpace rant in question, it's clear to me that the writer was TRYING to get fired, rather than just quit and go gently into that cold, dark night. I'd like to believe it would be as easy as going out for a beer with the boss. Remember, this is corporate radio we're dealing with.
 
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