>:O!!!!
Ok. I'm a little steamed right now. I've been a good little Oldies station employee now, doing all the bitch work (I'm the only one of three guys at my position who comes in for office hours). I've been folding shirts and moving offices and cleaning out the promotions cage and all that shit. I've been a good lad.
Now, I find out we have an event on NYE. So my boss sends out an email "Does anyone want to volunteer to work it before I just schedule someone?" I reply "Well ... I'm hosting a party, so, I'd really rather not work." And I get this:
Steve, you need to tell me this stuff. Part of this job is working nights, weekends and holidays - that is what all three of you signed up for when you took this job. I realize that we've been light on events the past two months, but that's exactly why I sent out that email last week, asking everyone to submit time-off requests, because with little or no notice events get thrown on the calendar. If the other two guys tell me the same thing - that they already have plans - then all of a sudden we don't have staff for this event.
Of course, I don't expect you all three not to have something going on that night, but due to the nature of the busines we're in, I need a heads up on this stuff, so time off can be granted to those who request it first (if I can even do it in the first place). I can't go to [the big bosses] and tell them the station can't do a New Year's Eve event because our PAs are busy.
Well. WTF. Why not? If they expect three 25-year-olds in Chicago to be free on NYE 2 weeks before the date ... they're crazy. ESPECIALLY if they are asking said guys to work at a wine-tasting. I mean, shit, half of radio is being to adapt to things on your feet - to operate at the speed of sound. The Big Bosses had no problem changing the format and fucking up all the plans and work we'd done for the past 4 years, why can't they find someone else to work the event? Why can't YOU work it, Little Boss? And why the shit should I have put in a time-off request ... when ... we haven't had any work since September? "Oh, hey, btw! I know there's jack shit going on, but I need this day off! Cool? Thanks!!" No. Fuck that. Tell your shitty sales people not to book events fucking 2 weeks before the biggest party night of the year.
Time to go fold another 1,500 shirts. Fuck this place.
Now, I find out we have an event on NYE. So my boss sends out an email "Does anyone want to volunteer to work it before I just schedule someone?" I reply "Well ... I'm hosting a party, so, I'd really rather not work." And I get this:
Steve, you need to tell me this stuff. Part of this job is working nights, weekends and holidays - that is what all three of you signed up for when you took this job. I realize that we've been light on events the past two months, but that's exactly why I sent out that email last week, asking everyone to submit time-off requests, because with little or no notice events get thrown on the calendar. If the other two guys tell me the same thing - that they already have plans - then all of a sudden we don't have staff for this event.
Of course, I don't expect you all three not to have something going on that night, but due to the nature of the busines we're in, I need a heads up on this stuff, so time off can be granted to those who request it first (if I can even do it in the first place). I can't go to [the big bosses] and tell them the station can't do a New Year's Eve event because our PAs are busy.
Well. WTF. Why not? If they expect three 25-year-olds in Chicago to be free on NYE 2 weeks before the date ... they're crazy. ESPECIALLY if they are asking said guys to work at a wine-tasting. I mean, shit, half of radio is being to adapt to things on your feet - to operate at the speed of sound. The Big Bosses had no problem changing the format and fucking up all the plans and work we'd done for the past 4 years, why can't they find someone else to work the event? Why can't YOU work it, Little Boss? And why the shit should I have put in a time-off request ... when ... we haven't had any work since September? "Oh, hey, btw! I know there's jack shit going on, but I need this day off! Cool? Thanks!!" No. Fuck that. Tell your shitty sales people not to book events fucking 2 weeks before the biggest party night of the year.
Time to go fold another 1,500 shirts. Fuck this place.