[BC] Thought For The Day

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Massachusetts is not a "right to work" state. A company
is allowed to hire and fire at will. It's a throwback to the
old mill-towns where the cotton mills would hire when
the fields were being harvested then lay everybody off
so they could go to work at the wool mills, which would
provide employment for the rest of the year.

Unfortunately, the concept stuck and the laws remained,
even after all the mills closed. 

It has been said that in the radio industry, 10 years
experience really means one years experiance, ten
times. This is in no small part due to the visibility
of the industry's employees.

Once the manager of many companies, not just
Radio and TV stations, learns your name, you are
on the way out the door! They always know somebody
who could do your job better than you. So, try not to
tell anybody what you do!

Sometimes that works, but not always. About a month
and a half ago, by boss who I see about once a year,
walked into my off and nonchalantly said, "I'm terminating
your employment at Analogic." After I cleaned 20 years
of stuff out of my office, I was reinstated.

Rumor has it that  my boss just wanted me to clean
up my office.

--
Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Read about my book
http://www.LymanSchool.org


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Dana  Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
> When I was "laid off" at one job (they couldn't fire me because my performance
> reviews had been stellar), I reached into my pocket, took out two tens and
> handed one each to the GM and PD, telling them: "You need this more then
> I...now, go out and buy yourselves a clue!"
> 
> -D
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:00:45 PM EDT
> From: "Phil Longenecker" <plongenecker at mkeradiogrp.com>
> 
> 
> I've worked for a few bosses that my parting words were something like:
> 
> "Having an argument with you is like have a battle of wits with an
> unarmed man."
> 
> 
> 
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