[BC] Anyone know the details?

[Dana Puopolo]

Enquiring minds want to know...

-D

    It appears a Cumulus station went silent during the chief engineer's
mandatory furlough week.
    The staff couldn't call him -- after all, when the Dickey's say you're
furloughed, they mean it.
    The problem arose when the furloughed engineer was not answering his
phone, page or whatever means of communication he had. The station was
reportedly off-the-air for a long period of time -- station people standing by
in horror -- helpless.
    The idea that real, live, breathing employees are expendable whether for
furloughs or just your ordinary firing is proving to be shortsighted. It's one
thing to try and cut expenses, but it shouldn't take a Harvard grad (Lew) to
understand that being off-the-air is -- well, an emergency.