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She quit on the air.

It was too quick for me to be sure, but that sounded like the Talented Mr. (Jeff) Berlin's voice on the liner at the very end of the clip. Never ceases to amaze me where I hear his voice these days. So I guess there was technically a Boston angle to this story after all! ;D
 
Somebody Somewhere remixed it into a quick catchy little ditty...

http://www.radioearth.com/InettaQuitsBitch.html


All the jibber jabber about 'well I wouldnt have done this' and 'there are better ways to air your gripes with management'...seriously, 6 years. $6 bucks. how many tens of thousands of djs have gone to management and asked for a raise only to be told 'no' and/or find themselves out of work for being so brazen as to ask the almighty management for more money.

The business of radio is a joke. There are way too many morons in suits calling the shots. This woman put up with them for six years then said 'enough' I think what she did took bawls.

And yea, I think she was right. $6 for 6 years at the market leading station is a friggin' joke and she damn well should let people know what kind of slave market sweat shop they are supporting and maybe they are better off with alternate music sources.

Wal-Mart with no union takes better care of their employees. Id love to see a 60 Min special on why the radio industry continues to pay their air staffs 1970 wages in the year 2006.

$6 dollars = broke in Boston or 'Bama.
 
this rules... I love her voice. There's an honesty to it... unpolished. Some of you really need to lighten up. Of course, I'm not in the 'biz'... I'm one of those people who would say "you go girl"...
 
It's not as if this has happened before.....anyone remember Jack Paar quitting the Tonight Show on air? (He eventually came back, of course.)
 
It was too quick for me to be sure, but that sounded like the Talented Mr. (Jeff) Berlin's voice on the liner at the very end of the clip. Never ceases to amaze me where I hear his voice these days. So I guess there was technically a Boston angle to this story after all! ;D


No it's Bill Andrew Quinn, does a lot of Urban stuff. he was the same guy that Hot 97/WILD FM was using. Sounds nothing like Berlin.
 
It's not as if this has happened before.....anyone remember Jack Paar quitting the Tonight Show on air? (He eventually came back, of course.)


Better still remember Jimmy Myers quitting WBZ TV news on air?.
 
I Quit This Bitch! LOL.

Now that's the kind of honesty in radio that I Love! That's pure comedy at it's best. I give her the clip of the year award!
 
With that in mind, I say it's good radio. At least she spoke her mind about it. Surely she should've talked the money issue over with her PD or members of management during her six years there. I can understand that $6.00 an hour is nothing worse than the pay scale in Mississippi (to be honest with you the scale really sucks here anyway). She'll land herself in another market where she can be appreciated.
 
Was this her final break? If so what did the rest of the show sound like? Was she going on for the whole shift or did she just “quit the bitch” on the way out the door? I remember when Sonny Joe White left WVBF a lot of his “final” stop sets centered around that he was leaving because he did not agree with the direction the station was going. Now I know there is NO comparison to the two talents, but Sonny vented over a number of breaks.

Just wondering if her whole show on air built up to the “kiss of death” or she just cracked at the last crack of the microphone
 
She rules. Radio management sucks the life right out of you. When you get the best numbers they have ever had for 2 straight books being #1 in your demo for both books and you still have to fight to get the BS $1000 bonus that is in the contract, it is just a joke. They lie to you about your hours, they lie to you about how much you will make in remotes, they lie to you about helping you move up...they just lie to you, period...and they don't give a crap. They will look the next sucker in the eyes and lie to him/her too.

I hope when I quit (the biz) soon, I have the balls to do the same thing.
 
Virtually everyone at one time or another is ready to tell the boss to "Take This Job & Shove It" Many of us have wanted to do it on the air. And..depending on the circumstances..the biggest one being you don't want to work in radio ever again..have done it. But..in today's consolidated radio market, there's one thing you don't want stamped into your file. The simple words.."Inelligible For Rehire". That's the only question a prospective employer can legally ask a former employer about you. It's also a sentence that says all they need to hear. If you walk at CC, you are then out of how many..1300 other options? Same thing goes for Citadel, Cumulus, CBS or Entercom. Inelligible For Rehire, can pretty much send you off for a rewarding career at Greyhound Bus, Wal-Mart or BK. If you're going to blow your stack and walk off the air, remember, there's an out of work jock who'd be glad to have your job, and there won't be a place for you a little later.
 
If you're going to blow your stack and walk off the air, remember, there's an out of work jock who'd be glad to have your job, and there won't be a place for you a little later.

I always tell people...you pull a stunt like that on the air, don't be surprised when you can't land a new gig.
 
If you're going to blow your stack and walk off the air, remember, there's an out of work jock who'd be glad to have your job, and there won't be a place for you a little later.
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Not as many as there used to be. With younger adults having more creative options, people in the biz tell me they're not exactly beating down the doors to get into radio as their parents' generation did 25 years ago.
The competition is mostly retreads who haven't figured out a career path outside of radio yet. Partly because of consolidation, the talent pool has thinned out considerably.
 
I can't wait to get out of the biz AND be inelligle for rehire. They are getting my notice on Tuesday. In 15 days I will scream FREEDOM louder than William Wallace did when he was being disembowled.

Screw radio, cumulus, and the south!
 
I've got mixed feelings about what she did.

On one hand, it was very unprofessional and not very classy at all. It could've probably been handled in a much better way.

However, I have a feeling she already tried to bring it up and was met with a brick wall. You go Inetta!!
 
PaulBWalkerJr said:
I've got mixed feelings about what she did.

On one hand, it was very unprofessional and not very classy at all. It could've probably been handled in a much better way.

However, I have a feeling she already tried to bring it up and was met with a brick wall. You go Inetta!!
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Why mixed feelings? If she was really that unhappy, why not just give notice and leave without making a scene? What did she accomplish by this except make herself look unprofessional?
 
Not as many as there used to be. With younger adults having more creative options, people in the biz tell me they're not exactly beating down the doors to get into radio as their parents' generation did 25 years ago.

Very true. But that's because back then the business was much different. You had live DJ's who carried a lot of prestige, despite the paycheck. Nowadays, the DJ as we know it has falled by the wayside and the universal, multi-talented 'staff announcer' has taken its place. Stations today want someone who can write news, sports, weather, board op, do sports PBP, remotes, promotions, copywriting, and production. You actually WORK for that paycheck now. You put in a MINIMUM of 8 hours a day, rather than four and out the door like in the past. Not only that, but today's generation seems to just not want to work period, let alone in radio. When I got into radio almost two decades ago, the GM had my resume in a HUGE stack of others. Nowadays, you try to recruit someone, the pile of resumes you get will be much smaller. You have to love this business, and that means changing with the times, in order to stay in it.
 
Oldbones said:
PaulBWalkerJr said:
I've got mixed feelings about what she did.

On one hand, it was very unprofessional and not very classy at all. It could've probably been handled in a much better way.

However, I have a feeling she already tried to bring it up and was met with a brick wall. You go Inetta!!
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Why mixed feelings? If she was really that unhappy, why not just give notice and leave without making a scene? What did she accomplish by this except make herself look unprofessional?
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Maybe it made HER feel good...no one here knows what went on in the office, so don't make assumptions
 
smedge2006 said:
Not as many as there used to be. With younger adults having more creative options, people in the biz tell me they're not exactly beating down the doors to get into radio as their parents' generation did 25 years ago.
The competition is mostly retreads who haven't figured out a career path outside of radio yet. Partly because of consolidation, the talent pool has thinned out considerably.
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Also because of modern automation, voicetracking, birdfed programming, etc... there are far fewer on-air openings than there once were, especially outside of the major markets. Times once were that even the smallest stations had to hire overnight jocks or go off the air, or use really bad sounding analog automation systems that used to frequently screw up when no one was there...
 
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