so, ive been like the worst person ever when it comes to updating and catching up with people.. i am really sorry.. needless to say, things have been a bit crazy for me..
first off, there is the job. as you all know i am looking to move and get outta both ohio and doing morning drive. well, things hit an interesting snag at the end of last week/beginning of this week. i had a meeting with our general manager. she knows about my situation, that i am looking and all, and she wanted to talk to me about things. i told her how i felt, where i was looking to go (either east coast or california) and why (home is east coast, corrie is from cali) and also my desire to get out of am drive. she shot back with a few nuggets. first, she told me how much she wants me to stay and how she would do just about whatever it takes to get me to stay. she asked me if i would like to move back to doing afternoon drive. i told her that i could not believe what i was about to say but i did not think that it was the best move for the station to have me there. if i am going to stay, they need me doing mornings-its just as simple as that. (and yes i feel like a douche for doing the "right" thing sometimes...)
so, from there she asked me what it would take for me to consider staying. at this point i have to digress for a second for some explaining. i work for clear channel. the largest and worst radio company in the business. we are just about everything that is wrong with the business today. the company also has a long standing tradition of fucking its employees royally every chance they get. especially when it comes to paying them what they are worth. that said, i am in a VERY good position to negotiate with them. basically, i dont have to take any offer that i dont like. they need me more than i need them at this point. SO, i told her that i would need the following: 1) for my producer lotuspod81 to get more $ and have his hours change from midnight-8am to 4am-noon so he can do more producer shit and make the show better. 2) i need more money. a lot more money. like i wont even talk about anything under a $25 grand raise. and 3) they would have to syndicate the show out to at least one other market immediately. (hows about the balls on ME, huh??
) so the gm writes all this down and simply says, "i will try get you everything. give me a little while to work on it with corporate." DAMN!!!! so i am now kinda just waiting on whether they will come thru or i will get an offer from somewhere else.
to be totally honest, i am a bit conflicted. if they come to the table with all that i am asking for (and i think they will do everything, but fall short with the $$) i would have to be here for another 2 years. on the plus side, i would have great job security, already know that i have a good situation at the station and all, and corrie would move out here probably by january of february. all good things. BUT, when i moved out here i only planned on being here for 2 years TOPS. i will have been here 3 years already by february, and adding 2 more years may make me a bit crazy... so a big part of me is hoping that some other station shows some interest and makes me a decent offer. (obviously, i would not ask for as much if someone wants to whisk me away from here). so its all just a big wait and see at this point, which gets to be frustrating....
outside of that stress, i have been trying to figure out getting home in december for chanukka and flying out to california with corrie for xmas. that and corrie has been pretty sick for the past few days. it sucks because i want nothing more than to be there to be able to take care of her when she is like this, and there is literally nothing i can do from so far away.
it really sucks when the one you love is sick and you are far from them. so that has been taking up a lot of my thoughts and energy....
i dont know what else is going on... i finally started pt on my knee so that hopefully the pain will finally go away! OH OH OH, and on a really good note, we are doing something really fucking cool on november 19th! we are having a "morning x listener appreciation" broadcast!!!!!!!!!!!! its going to be at a local hooters (on 725, for those of you who SHOULD FUCKING SHOW UP-and you know who you are 
). im going to broadcast my show from there on that friday MORNING from 6-10am. there will be free food, $1.39 beer (!!! ) shit loads of prizes, guests, games and shit. PLUS the station said that they would make shirts for me (a first). they are going to say something like "i made the morning x #1 and all i got was this stupid shirt". the coolest part is that my boss is actually really being cool about making sure that it is all about my program and that we were #1 in our last ratings book. being that the most i usually get from him is that my show is "decent" this is huge! if you live in the area, i fucking expect to see you out there, damn it!!!!!!!
ok, i have written WAY WAY WAY to fucking much. i wanna know what is going on with you guys. let me know something fun. i promise that i will put something in everyones journals in the next few days.
mahalo
first off, there is the job. as you all know i am looking to move and get outta both ohio and doing morning drive. well, things hit an interesting snag at the end of last week/beginning of this week. i had a meeting with our general manager. she knows about my situation, that i am looking and all, and she wanted to talk to me about things. i told her how i felt, where i was looking to go (either east coast or california) and why (home is east coast, corrie is from cali) and also my desire to get out of am drive. she shot back with a few nuggets. first, she told me how much she wants me to stay and how she would do just about whatever it takes to get me to stay. she asked me if i would like to move back to doing afternoon drive. i told her that i could not believe what i was about to say but i did not think that it was the best move for the station to have me there. if i am going to stay, they need me doing mornings-its just as simple as that. (and yes i feel like a douche for doing the "right" thing sometimes...)
so, from there she asked me what it would take for me to consider staying. at this point i have to digress for a second for some explaining. i work for clear channel. the largest and worst radio company in the business. we are just about everything that is wrong with the business today. the company also has a long standing tradition of fucking its employees royally every chance they get. especially when it comes to paying them what they are worth. that said, i am in a VERY good position to negotiate with them. basically, i dont have to take any offer that i dont like. they need me more than i need them at this point. SO, i told her that i would need the following: 1) for my producer lotuspod81 to get more $ and have his hours change from midnight-8am to 4am-noon so he can do more producer shit and make the show better. 2) i need more money. a lot more money. like i wont even talk about anything under a $25 grand raise. and 3) they would have to syndicate the show out to at least one other market immediately. (hows about the balls on ME, huh??
) so the gm writes all this down and simply says, "i will try get you everything. give me a little while to work on it with corporate." DAMN!!!! so i am now kinda just waiting on whether they will come thru or i will get an offer from somewhere else.
to be totally honest, i am a bit conflicted. if they come to the table with all that i am asking for (and i think they will do everything, but fall short with the $$) i would have to be here for another 2 years. on the plus side, i would have great job security, already know that i have a good situation at the station and all, and corrie would move out here probably by january of february. all good things. BUT, when i moved out here i only planned on being here for 2 years TOPS. i will have been here 3 years already by february, and adding 2 more years may make me a bit crazy... so a big part of me is hoping that some other station shows some interest and makes me a decent offer. (obviously, i would not ask for as much if someone wants to whisk me away from here). so its all just a big wait and see at this point, which gets to be frustrating....
outside of that stress, i have been trying to figure out getting home in december for chanukka and flying out to california with corrie for xmas. that and corrie has been pretty sick for the past few days. it sucks because i want nothing more than to be there to be able to take care of her when she is like this, and there is literally nothing i can do from so far away.
it really sucks when the one you love is sick and you are far from them. so that has been taking up a lot of my thoughts and energy....
i dont know what else is going on... i finally started pt on my knee so that hopefully the pain will finally go away! OH OH OH, and on a really good note, we are doing something really fucking cool on november 19th! we are having a "morning x listener appreciation" broadcast!!!!!!!!!!!! its going to be at a local hooters (on 725, for those of you who SHOULD FUCKING SHOW UP-and you know who you are
). im going to broadcast my show from there on that friday MORNING from 6-10am. there will be free food, $1.39 beer (!!! ) shit loads of prizes, guests, games and shit. PLUS the station said that they would make shirts for me (a first). they are going to say something like "i made the morning x #1 and all i got was this stupid shirt". the coolest part is that my boss is actually really being cool about making sure that it is all about my program and that we were #1 in our last ratings book. being that the most i usually get from him is that my show is "decent" this is huge! if you live in the area, i fucking expect to see you out there, damn it!!!!!!!
ok, i have written WAY WAY WAY to fucking much. i wanna know what is going on with you guys. let me know something fun. i promise that i will put something in everyones journals in the next few days.
mahalo
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Have you heard about SGBoston's Cabaret show nwext weekend? It's @ The Lucky Dog in Worcester. Quite a few of the east coast SG's will be performing, there's a list somewhere, but I'm too lazy to find it. Should be a blast!