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Ways to Get Fired

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A. Rig major cash promotion, get caught doing it.


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CAUSE A HUGE SCENE AT A LOCAL NIGHTCLUB THAT SPENDS LOADS OF MONEY AND LEAVE THE CLUB BY SAYING, "DO YOU NOT KNOW WHO I AM?" THEN, GO AND TALK ABOUT IT THE NEXT NIGHT WHILE THE CLIENT IS LISTENING. (CLUB WASN'T MENTIONED BUT, IMPLIED) WTF?!?!
 
Bub said: Beat your boss in the ratings.

That's pretty funny. I did, and I beat every other daypart, too. To show his appreciation, he didn't say word one to me about it. This is another reason this business is beginning to wear me down. Good work, these days it seems, now always goes un-noticed and un-recognized. Getting out is really looking more and more attractive to me right now.
 
Bored Op said:
Bub said: Beat your boss in the ratings.

That's pretty funny. I did, and I beat every other daypart, too. To show his appreciation, he didn't say word one to me about it. This is another reason this business is beginning to wear me down. Good work, these days it seems, now always goes un-noticed and un-recognized. Getting out is really looking more and more attractive to me right now.
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Don't give up, go to another station or another market. Radio is tough as hell in the smaller markets and in programming there are a lot of egos involved. Keep airchecking, read R&R and keep your resume up to date and your contacts close.
My favorite way to get fired: Be smarter than the misogynistic GM and consultant. Take joy that the talent you groomed moved to bigger and better markets after your departure.
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Thanks for the comments, Jenny Woo. However, I've been doing this for nearly 30 years. The radio business is a shell of it's former self. I've spent time with CC, Cox and Entercom and was treated much better than I've been treated here... a real small market mom & pop. From a GM with pi**-poor management/people skills, to different rules for different people and the constant vibe that "I should just consider myself lucky that they let me work here", I've decided that I've had just about enough. It's been fun, and I'm going to miss it terribly since I've done this since I was 17 and it's the only job I've ever had. I love the radio business, but not nearly as much as I used to.
 
Ways to get fired?

How about staying at the same station for too long? Or rising too high on the pay scale? If you make "too much" money, they can easily dump you (even if they must look for an excuse to do so, and frame you in the process!), and replace you with someone making less. My former station's owners started a "sweep" in 2005, which eventually swept out the GM, ops manager, PD, and everyone else who had been there longer than me. I should have seen it coming. It took two years, but on September 14, 2007, it swept me out as well, after 11 years with them, including 10 years on overnights! :mad: They had originally memoed us in August of 2005 that only one employee was being subjected to these changes, but counting me, at least six employees of that station have become former employees. One voluntarily left, but the rest were forced out, including me. Station ownership now has "their" people in all the key positions now, and no one who has been there longer than eight years.
 
That sucks for both of you - radio is a cruel mistress; addicting and unrewarding. We probably all have wonderful, funny stories to tell from years in the biz (only 15 for me) but maybe it is time for ya'll to reinvent yourselves. I did, and it was very profitable. Management skills from working in radio mean you can practically herd cats and selling yourself that way is something important to remember. Most radio skills are transferrable (when it comes to soft skills, some techy stuff may help if you're inclined that way).
I'll shut up now - I just remember what it was like when I transitioned from radio to the real world....
 
Some of these mentioned have actually happened in FWB/Destin. But I aint sayin nothin. LOL.

Biggest Way to get fired in 2007:
Not being able to wear multiple hats. If you are a one title kinda person, you won't make it.

Here in Grand Rapids, I'm Assn't PD, I do nights live, a live weekend shift, a weekend mixshow, I VT weekends in Toledo, VT middays on Z107.7 St. Louis' HD-2 channel, and I do weekends live in Detroit when asked. I also maintain our website daily (content, graphics, everything), promote the show and appearances heavily through MySpace, Facebook. No webmaster in house, no REAL promotions help.
 
Tell the truth when asked a question by management. This sad trend should continue for '08 but this might be the final year for "wanna be broadcasters". Speak your mind and be prepared to follow Jenny Woo's advice/example. Get rested because in, oh...2010 the good ones all will be needed back in the business to rebuild, entertain, inform, serve the public, generate revenue, make local small business owners wealthy, you know all the stuff that radio people used to do.

The dawn approaches slowly boys and girls but it shall shine forth! May you all have a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
 
A variation on the post above....assume that when management asks what you think, that they actually want to hear it. Trust me, in today's environment, where the old Soviet Union style of management from the top down is the rule, nothing you say to someone above you will change anything except your employment status.
 
By the way, Jenny Woo... did you ever work for CC in Tallahassee? If you did, I know you and you know me.
 
FIVESTAR...didn't you forget the word NEVER before Assume???

You are so right though. What we are seeing take place in this country is
a corporate/government collusion, thus, the new brand of Communism.

Keep all the little worker bees suppressed and the rich guys getting richer.
 
The best way to guarantee unemployment would be to work for cumulus
 
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