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She quit on the air.

keyjock said:
She did it ;D

How many times have we wanted to have the balls (or boobs) to do it?

She was only making $6.00 an hour, and had been for a while .. so sad.
Must have been a Clear Channel station.

Funny stuff.

Here's the audio:
http://carmige.com/audio/iquitthisbitch.mp3
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Huh, some of us took a different view....

She worked how many years for $6 an hour??? That is HER fault for not asking for more money. Or finding a place of work that she can make more money.

Also, with her attitude, I would not want her to work with me. Not exactly a team member. I have seen many of these types. More disruptive than helpful. Does she really think that people will never talk beind her back? It happens in every business!

Too bad about your Clear Channel Cheap shot huh? No I dont work for Clear Channel.
 
She's in a market way down south so six dollars is not as little there as it would be here. This is a great aircheck either way just funny!.
 
Purely based on her sound I'd say that the owners had to have been desperate to have hired her in the first place.

In the second place, $6.00/hour was somewhat on the high side.

It's a problem, though, in that even if the owners put aside all they were paying her plus what they paid in employment taxes, social security, medicare taxes, income taxes....put all that aside for a year... Then they still wouldn't have enough for a decent automation system to replace her.
 
it's an urban station based in the south so given the audience she's courting she probably sounded very natural. I dont think its right to say given her sound they probably wanted to get rid of her, that's northeast bias talking. No offense.
 
It is a funny clip, but it's a few weeks old.

I'm happy to see a funny contribution in this board, but it doesn't have to do with Boston radio.

On another note, did the Hot 97.7 DJs get to say goodbye?
 
TowerBuzz said:
it's an urban station based in the south so given the audience she's courting she probably sounded very natural. I dont think its right to say given her sound they probably wanted to get rid of her, that's northeast bias talking. No offense.
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No offense taken.

Perhaps you're right but I wasn't thinking along ethnic lines in either wording or accentuation. Rather, voice quality which was abrasive and could have benefitted from some well adjusted processing. Just an aside: I've been away from New England for several decades and, when I return for visits, really "hear" the unique speech patterns and find them vaguely discomforting. When I'm not working at "announcing" a little of that New England creeps back in and people speculate on where I'm originally from. Generally I raise my left arm with one finger upraised and tell 'em that the arm represents Cape Cod; the finger represents the P'Town monument. Then, with a sweeping gesture of the right arm, tap the left armpit with a single finger of the right hand and say: "Right here; Fall River, yes, truly the armpit of the nation." "Geographically for certain anyway...."
 
I almost pee'ed my pants when I heard this clip...must have hit replay about 6 or 7 times..and laughed my butt off....this does not mean that i agree with her lack of judgement...i agree with smoke--this is old..but for some that may not keep up with allaccess netnews- it's bound to trickle down in a few weeks after us radio die hards have already heard it...on the other end----I'm a supervisor (not in the radio field)...and I don't think I would ever hire someone that pulled a stunt like that..they're a walking time bomb...you need to hire someone that is going to represent your company in a positive light...and if i was in management in radio---she would never be hired by me after a stint like that...someone that airs their dirty laundry out on the air gets no hi-five from me...if she had issues about being paid $6 an hour--that's something to take up with the PD one on one...and if he/she is not willing to offer more, you leave and take things elsewhere..unless you love radio and it doesn't matter what you get for pay...Salary/pay is something to take up with management..i would like to know if she ever even had a converstation with her boss about pay in her 6 year span...it baffles me that someone would take $6 for that long...shame on her for not walking out if she didn't agree with the pay instead of embarassing herself, and the station..and in my opinion--i don't think any listener cares how much a DJ makes..all they care about is what song is coming up next...i have the clip if anyone wants to hear it.
 
I understand the next words she spoke into a microphone were " would you like fries with that" at her new gig working the drive up window at BK, plus she has a significant raise in pay on the way.. I hear the feds are talking about increasing the min. wage.

Back in 1976, when I was spending too much time thinking radio, and not enough time thinking, my dad told me "radio is a bunch of people stabbing each other in the back for a seven dollar an hour job" I guess he was off by a dollar.
 
Neggy said:
I understand the next words she spoke into a microphone were " would you like fries with that" at her new gig working the drive up window at BK, plus she has a significant raise in pay on the way.. I hear the feds are talking about increasing the min. wage.

Back in 1976, when I was spending too much time thinking radio, and not enough time thinking, my dad told me "radio is a bunch of people stabbing each other in the back for a seven dollar an hour job" I guess he was off by a dollar.
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LOL!!!!!! :D
 
wkrpfm said:
I almost pee'ed my pants when I heard this clip...must have hit replay about 6 or 7 times..and laughed my butt off....
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I'm with you, Erika...........clip was a riot!!!!...........I've got it saved on desktop for my daily morning chuckle!!!!!
 
Voice-wise, like fingernails on a blackboard. Interesting sentiment, however. Something we have all wanted to say at one time or another. In a couple of non-radio jobs (hey, a guy gotta eat, ya know?) I have voiced the same sentiments on my way out the door.


So, you want to work the drive-up window here at Hamburger Monarch. What happened in your last job?
;D
 
Neggy said:
I understand the next words she spoke into a microphone were " would you like fries with that" at her new gig working the drive up window at BK, plus she has a significant raise in pay on the way.. I hear the feds are talking about increasing the min. wage.

Back in 1976, when I was spending too much time thinking radio, and not enough time thinking, my dad told me "radio is a bunch of people stabbing each other in the back for a seven dollar an hour job" I guess he was off by a dollar.
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That's funny because I know someone who had her on their show, and she said she'd received job offers from several major markets. By creating a name for herself in this way, without doing something too incredibly stupid (violating FCC rules, etc), she increased her marketability by 10000%
 
Garrett said:
Since you posted this on the Boston radio board, which Boston radio station did this happen on?
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"Our Garrett is an awesome Garrett" has been reading the NYRMB a little too much.

It didn't happen on Boston radio, but many people enjoyed it nonetheless.
 
K&M played this clip this morning around 6:35. I did not hear their comments because I had to leave the car to get a train. Just like Chicken Man this clip is “everywhere, it’s everywhere! “ ;D
 
She worked how many years for $6 an hour??? That is HER fault for not asking for more money. Or finding a place of work that she can make more money.

Also, with her attitude, I would not want her to work with me. Not exactly a team member. I have seen many of these types. More disruptive than helpful. Does she really think that people will never talk beind her back? It happens in every business!

I've been in this business almost twenty years, and I have to admit, I had an attitude like this young lady during my early years in the business. However, despite the issues I had with management, I NEVER took my gripes with them out on the air. I was smart enough to keep them internal because I love this business and I didn't want to be anywhere else. If she doesn't care whether she gets a job in radio again, then good riddance. We don't need any people like this undermining what we're all trying to do here...and that's to keep this business alive, profitable, and interesting.

While her on-air tirade might have had a couple of people in their cars yelling "you go girl!", the matter will be quickly forgotten. It always is in the smaller markets.

I've always told talent new in the business not to ever get in for the money. There isn't any. If you get frustrated with the way your paycheck is, plan your life out enough in advance so that you have something else you can tolerate doing for a living until you find the right gig that pays you a livable salary. My second love is cars, and working with them is something I can enjoy doing if I had to find something else to do. There's always things to do other than radio that are just as rewarding. You just need to spend some time with yourself and find out just what it is you want out of life. My former tax accountant in metro Detroit had a marquee sign outside his office that said "The key to happiness is to find something that you truly enjoy doing, and then get someone to pay you for doing it." That's why I'm here! :)

A positive attitude goes a long way...not just in radio, but anywhere. All I heard on this audio clip was negativity. I hope she wises up.
 
TowerBuzz said:
it's an urban station based in the south so given the audience she's courting she probably sounded very natural. I dont think its right to say given her sound they probably wanted to get rid of her, that's northeast bias talking. No offense.
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Yep, it was pretty funny stuff!! The station is WBLX, a 98,000 watter from Mobile, AL - which is a small-mid sized market, but not tiny. The station is also local in Pensacola, FL - so it serves two reasonably sized population centers. And, yeah, $6/hour there would be like getting $8/hour in Boston. Things are cheaper in Mobile, but it's not Argentina! You're still probably eligible for food stamps!

Given that, she really did not have a good sounding voice or delivery - not even for an urban formatted station. The girl was lucky to get a radio job in the first place and shouldn't have been satisfyed with $6/hour for any more than a year; let alone six! If she spent six unsuccessful years looking to make more than $6 an hour in radio (and couldn't), then perhaps it IS time for the management program at Mickey D's.

Anyhow, thanks for posting this - it was fun!
 
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