Payback is a karmic certainty.
My newbie announcer got herself fired yesterday. Annoying because I have established a new pattern for the listeners and now, like a soap bubble, it is gone.It is a long story that I will not tell here beyond mere outline. I am the manager, I set a schedule for November, newbie didn't like it, said she would complain to the big boss.
I advised her that that was inappropriate, she seemed to agree and then decided to call anyway, and set up an appointment to see him. Apparently she thought she was popular enough on air to have my schedule overturned. Or me fired for being insistent.
When she said she could not work with all the restrictions - I had asked her to spend Tuesdays writing and Thursdays on her sales calls and she was upset that I insisted she actually come into the office as I had advanced training to do with her as well - the big boss told her if you can't work in the current situation we have come to a parting of the ways, and that was that.
So, fresh out of her probation period she is gone. And the six programs she had committed to writing? Well, I will write them I suppose. I was going to edit them and produce them anyway.
I am very tired this week, opening the station at five forty five, working the morning show then interviews, editing and producing commercials, promos, jingles, then writing about fifty bios of artists with their philosophy statement to be recorded to start airing Monday.
Stretched thin with only four hours sleep a night and loving it. The challenge to do, create, and make it happen stirs my blood even though I need to whine a little. It is intense and I am glad the newbie's gone .
I never found the right language style with her to avoid her taking what I meant as constructive feedback, not even criticism, as a personal attack. And yet she saw nothing untoward about being four weeks behind on her deadline (set by her) for a sponsored program where we have a commitment to a client.
Ah well, none of this will matter in fifty years and right now the only thing I care about is sleep. I only have two things to finish up for tomorrow...