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Signs that a jock is a burnout

ROFL!!!! Yo Dog! I don't know who you think wasn't good enough for the Indy market, nor do I know where Evansville is, but newsbreak I was good enough to kick some ass in the Indy market! That is why I'm not in the top 40 has been crew with you!!!! To bad your burn't out jocks are still in the old school. I moved onward & upward! If you miss the last lifeboat grab a deckchair. You will need it chump! HHH KICKS ASS! Office Music Oldies? YAWN! You have brought tears to my eyes laughing so hard! Check out your ratings, & think about how you are going to avoid that iceberg! Man ROFL great medicine. Fun coming down to see my folks, & you fools!!!!!
 
Sign that a jock is burned out:
The jock is sent to do a freebee remote at the local county fair for a whopping $24.00 for 4 hours but instead just voice tracks it ahead of time, complete with carnival sfx & farm animal fx in the background & says "I'm out roving with the microphone passing out bumperstickers & I might just put you on the air if I find you(that way they'll keep searching all over the fair until they just get tired & give up((that is, if anyone even comes by))). Meanwhile you're at home taking a nap.

Or if you DO actually go to this event you take an intern along & tell them you'll write down extra studio time & give them a great recommendation letter if they stay & tear down while you go home to play Guitar Hero.
 
nightfly61 said:
Sign that a jock is burned out:
The jock is sent to do a freebee remote at the local county fair for a whopping $24.00 for 4 hours but instead just voice tracks it ahead of time, complete with carnival sfx & farm animal fx in the background & says "I'm out roving with the microphone passing out bumperstickers & I might just put you on the air if I find you(that way they'll keep searching all over the fair until they just get tired & give up((that is, if anyone even comes by))). Meanwhile you're at home taking a nap.

Or if you DO actually go to this event you take an intern along & tell them you'll write down extra studio time & give them a great recommendation letter if they stay & tear down while you go home to play Guitar Hero.
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This isn't burnout - it's the way it's done! Especially when you have an out-of-town owner and a staff that doesn't care what's on the air as long as it's not their shift.
 
The last straw.... You're looking in storage for something to fix this old piece of s#*t equipment and you find crates marked Mayflower and it's NOT the moving van company.
 
Signs a jock is a burnout:

1. You have actually calculated--to the penny--exactly how much you will get on unemployment and you have begun to engage in a suspiciously high number of discouraged activities at work because you know that if you quit, you won't get unemployment.

2. That was. This is. Every time.

3. You're outside smoking a cigarette every 13.5 minutes.

4. It's not a cigarette.

5. You use EAS Alerts to get rid of your talk breaks so you can bolt early.

6. The sign over your office door that reads "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" really discourages the interns.

7. Prize closet? You mean my apartment?

8. Red Bull. On tap.

9. Yeah, I know that we're an oldies station. I just wanted to hear some Megadeth.

10. You're taking 4 pills for blood pressure, 2 for baldness, 3 for ulcers, and it's been so long that you've gotten a respectable STD that you no longer require treatment for it.
 
You mention On the air how many times a day a song is actually played:

"It's the At Work Lunch Party on WXXX-that was Sheryl Crow-A Change Would Do Ya Good; well apparently changes DOESN'T do too much good around here because I just now counted & we've already heard Sheryl 5 times today since midnight lastnight & by the looks of the log you'll be guaranteed another 14 times today, so get ready to treat yourself"


You play back the entire conversation on the air with a girl calling wondering why the music sucks, explaining in detail that it's the fault of your boss and ask her what she wants to REALLY hear & pretend she's just now calling:
"Hi, WXXX"
"Hi, can you play Lady Gaga, "Let's Dance"?
Well, I'm not gonna lie to you...it's a great song...but...no I can't play that because the boss thinks it's too upbeat & dancey so I don't have it...BUT I'll put you on the air if you pretend to like Sheryl Crow & ask me to play some!

You start wearing other station or competing station's old t-shirts from the past & when new owners comment about them you say you can't afford any new clothes on your income.

When overly excited interns come in the studio thinking you may put them on the air but you tell them you're voice tracking your 8 hour Sunday morning shift & can't be bothered.

You offer to give your last 4 bucks to the only guy there as poor as you, so you can leave early & go to your other job.

When bill collectors know what shift you work & call there & you have fun recording them & disguise your voice & say "he's not here, that's just a tape".
 
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