Stupid Guest Tricks

Well according to Casting I am kinda screwed. I can put in for a transfer and it can take anywhere from two weeks to a YEAR!!! And if it goes through and I am not currently working I am screwed!!! AHHHHHH!!!

Just remember, it could be worse. You could have been one of the old spielers when it switched over. That is how it is for me in buses. They gave the best part of my job away to a computer.

But the wonderful thing is I have exactly two more days as a bus driver. Now, I'm off to find me a pic of a Safari truck!

EDIT: Just saw your new post. So... One thing you might consider if you don't care about seniority (wait, you're seasonal) is quitting and coming back into the new role.

Big Wallaby wrote: EDIT: Just saw your new post. So... One thing you might consider if you don't care about seniority (wait, you're seasonal) is quitting and coming back into the new role.

Yes that is always an option...but I like my JOB too much to do that. I just hate my LOCATION. Plus I don't want to be one of those bratty college students that will just quit if they don't like something. This is my job that I worked so hard to get, quitting would be like a slap in the face. I hate seniority!!! It is so stupid!!! It's like, just because I have worked here longer means that I am more important!!! So when I become full-time after working for the company for four years I will be a "new-hire"!!! It's ridiculous.

Big Wallaby wrote: They gave the best part of my job away to a computer.

Sadly that is what has happened to radio now as well. When I worked full time in radio (last in 1994), the computers were starting to take over the broadcast part of radio. We had already been using them to do scheduling, commercials, music rotation and the like, but then D.J.'s began laying down their *spiels* aka announcements and the Program Director could just pop them into the computer system and there ya go. NO live jock, except the morning drive show. Sucks major league! Very sad how the computer is putting PEOPLE out of work, except those who work with computers! You dodn't even need spontaneity any more. Just a few glib announcements and that is radio! :mad:
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Edit to add: Small town radio in SOME small towns still remains "live", but more and more Clear Channel is eating up all the stations and automating them, it's CHEAPER!!!!!!!! And it still sucks!

Yeah. I don't have nearly the problem with outsourcing jobs overseas that I do with giving them to a computer. That person overseas, I will never see, they are just some guy with a name that's obviously not his.

Meanwhile, they want me to sit there and make sure the computer does its thing.

CMGUY89 wrote:Yes that is always an option...but I like my JOB too much to do that. I just hate my LOCATION. Plus I don't want to be one of those bratty college students that will just quit if they don't like something. This is my job that I worked so hard to get, quitting would be like a slap in the face. I hate seniority!!! It is so stupid!!! It's like, just because I have worked here longer means that I am more important!!! So when I become full-time after working for the company for four years I will be a "new-hire"!!! It's ridiculous.

You do know that even the lowest ranked Full Time CM will always be scheduled over a CR, even if the CR's been around for 50 years.

I always thought it was a strict seniority thing with everyone on one list until a guy at my location who trained at the same time as me (he's FT) started getting all the shifts he wanted (and coincidentally, which I also wanted, which means I have to work ungodly hours).

glendalais wrote:You do know that even the lowest ranked Full Time CM will always be scheduled over a CR, even if the CR's been around for 50 years.

I always thought it was a strict seniority thing with everyone on one list until a guy at my location who trained at the same time as me (he's FT) started getting all the shifts he wanted (and coincidentally, which I also wanted, which means I have to work ungodly hours).

CT is even worse! We don't get shifts, we have shifts. I usually never have the same two days off, something many CR's do. I usually get the EMH Close shift with the opening shift the next morning, which often times gives me double-back. (At least I think I get double-back...) I ALWAYS have the EMH opener, which usually no one even knows (or cares) that we are open! Yikes!
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(In a Southern Accent) As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never work a bad attraction again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never work a bad attraction again!

When I come to bug you, should I look for someone with "New York" on the nametag, or a school? It will happen. Bwa ha ha ha ha!

Big Wallaby wrote:When I come to bug you, should I look for someone with "New York" on the nametag, or a school? It will happen. Bwa ha ha ha ha!

Well it will either be New York, NYU, or Plano, TX (my current one). I'm debating about swapping it out. (It's my first one...) I look forward to the encounter... I'll PM my info to you a little later as long as you promise not to chop me up into little pieces and feed me to the baby alligators in the aquacell! LOL!

I'm surprised no one on here got that Gone With The Wind joke, that took effort as I've never actually seen the film. LOL ;) There's got to be someone from Studios on the board.

Big Wallaby wrote:Yeah. I don't have nearly the problem with outsourcing jobs overseas that I do with giving them to a computer. That person overseas, I will never see, they are just some guy with a name that's obviously not his.

Meanwhile, they want me to sit there and make sure the computer does its thing.

I resemble that remark!

Yes I'm in radio. And yes much of my job IS sitting here to make sure the computer doesn't screw up. And Sus it has gotten worse. We don't even record programs from the satelite. The network programming is fed through the internet and so the computer even does that automatically. Of course the problem I have is that the program that plays the programs is a windows based program and so you can imagine how it handles running two stations at the same time, 24/7/365.

But there is a good side to this. The company has a good internet connection (I am right across the street from NCSA...National Center for Supercomputing Applications) and so while I "monitor" the stations I can chat with all of you. :D: :D: :D:

Randy