FML
So...I tried to ride my bike for the first time in years...which has made me feel like I need to puke. But I biked my ass up here (work), sliced the back of my leg on the pedal, and got rained on.
The guy I'm supposed to be training texted me to say he couldn't make it because he doesn't have a ride.
...
Fucking panzy.
And it's my least favorite kind of broadcast...a dual remote. This involves a lot of going back and forth from station to station...in this case, limping...doing the work of two board ops. for the pay of one. I was actually glad to be training a new guy, because after about ten minutes I could just stick him on the other station.
But of course he doesn't have to miss out on the training because we've got not one, not two, but three broadcasts to choose from today. So, he'll be able to make the second one, another dual remote. Good for him, I suppose.
I still have to be at all three of these. One runs 8:45am to 1:00pm. The second one runs 1:45 to 4:00. There would be no point to going home between those two and even if I were fit, I don't think I could bike home and back in 45 minutes, let alone have time for anything else. The third broadcast starts at 6:30...which at least gives me some time between them. But it's a college football broadcast and they run approximately seven hours. So, that's 8:45am to 1:30am the next day with almost nothing but work.
And it's not like my job's all that hard. Most of it involves sitting in a chair and occasionally pushing some buttons. And I love getting lots of hours because that means a bigger paycheck. Taking up the whole day at once is more than a little frustarting though.
And easy though my job may be, I am constantly training people who don't get it. It's really not a difficult concept. And I have trained people in the past who understood. But some of these people are just completely stupid about it. There are essentially three steps to most broadcasts.
Ranked in order of importance.
1) Show the fuck up.
2) Push a few buttons to get the broadcast started.
3) Push a button and turn down a volume slider, repetitively the same ones, every ten or twenty minutes to play our commercials.
I'm training two people. One of them is having a lot of trouble with step 1. Both of them are having toruble with step 2 (even after I made them a list of what to do; it's open-book you fucking morons).
This job is easy. Even when you have to do it all day. Even when you have to keep going back and forth between stations. I watch Doctor Who while doing this job. This is a fucking easy job. My training was approximately one hour of watching a guy do it, six hours of him watching me do it (see also: taking a nap). And I got it.
These clowns had the hour of watching me do it, a WEEK of me telling them how to do it, and another WEEK of me watching them fail to do it and ultimately telling them how to do it again.
And the thing is, if they'd learned it as quickly as I had learned it, I would be able to go home tonight. The 6:30-1:30 is me sitting there while the newbie runs a broadcast just to make sure he doesn't fuck up.
But at least I'm not flipping burgers. At least I CAN watch Doctor Who while doing my job. And since the other guy didn't show, I have taken my shirt off to get dry from the rain and sweat. This is what radio is like, folks.
The guy I'm supposed to be training texted me to say he couldn't make it because he doesn't have a ride.
...
Fucking panzy.
And it's my least favorite kind of broadcast...a dual remote. This involves a lot of going back and forth from station to station...in this case, limping...doing the work of two board ops. for the pay of one. I was actually glad to be training a new guy, because after about ten minutes I could just stick him on the other station.
But of course he doesn't have to miss out on the training because we've got not one, not two, but three broadcasts to choose from today. So, he'll be able to make the second one, another dual remote. Good for him, I suppose.
I still have to be at all three of these. One runs 8:45am to 1:00pm. The second one runs 1:45 to 4:00. There would be no point to going home between those two and even if I were fit, I don't think I could bike home and back in 45 minutes, let alone have time for anything else. The third broadcast starts at 6:30...which at least gives me some time between them. But it's a college football broadcast and they run approximately seven hours. So, that's 8:45am to 1:30am the next day with almost nothing but work.
And it's not like my job's all that hard. Most of it involves sitting in a chair and occasionally pushing some buttons. And I love getting lots of hours because that means a bigger paycheck. Taking up the whole day at once is more than a little frustarting though.
And easy though my job may be, I am constantly training people who don't get it. It's really not a difficult concept. And I have trained people in the past who understood. But some of these people are just completely stupid about it. There are essentially three steps to most broadcasts.
Ranked in order of importance.
1) Show the fuck up.
2) Push a few buttons to get the broadcast started.
3) Push a button and turn down a volume slider, repetitively the same ones, every ten or twenty minutes to play our commercials.
I'm training two people. One of them is having a lot of trouble with step 1. Both of them are having toruble with step 2 (even after I made them a list of what to do; it's open-book you fucking morons).
This job is easy. Even when you have to do it all day. Even when you have to keep going back and forth between stations. I watch Doctor Who while doing this job. This is a fucking easy job. My training was approximately one hour of watching a guy do it, six hours of him watching me do it (see also: taking a nap). And I got it.
These clowns had the hour of watching me do it, a WEEK of me telling them how to do it, and another WEEK of me watching them fail to do it and ultimately telling them how to do it again.
And the thing is, if they'd learned it as quickly as I had learned it, I would be able to go home tonight. The 6:30-1:30 is me sitting there while the newbie runs a broadcast just to make sure he doesn't fuck up.
But at least I'm not flipping burgers. At least I CAN watch Doctor Who while doing my job. And since the other guy didn't show, I have taken my shirt off to get dry from the rain and sweat. This is what radio is like, folks.