[BC] How we view our co-workers

Chris Gebhardt chris at virtbiz.com
Fri Apr 23 16:02:21 CDT 2010


Tom Bosscher wrote:
> Gotta tell Barry and Kevin, good article.
> 
>     Then again, that brings along a "grandpa Tom" story.
> 
>           It was about 8 years ago. I'm at my desk, in the back of the 
> building, when the urgent page comes overhead,
> "Engineering , we are off the air!"
> I trot (never run, makes me sweat) to the control room.
> By now, everyone is crammed into the room. I look at the remote control, 
> and realize we have a power failure, and there is no egen (at that time).
>    
>     The announcers asks "What's up Tom?"
>     I say " The transmitter"
>     Then my boss makes a mistake: "What's that?"
> 
>       I say "it's a big silver box with dials and knobs, but its thats 
> not important right now!"

Airplane! is one of my favorite movies.

Rumack: You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we 
can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
Elaine Dickinson: A hospital? What is it?
Rumack: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important 
right now.

Elaine Dickinson: You got a letter from headquarters this morning.
Ted Striker: What is it?
Elaine Dickinson: It's a big building where generals meet, but that's 
not important.

So I'm thankful to Tom for the chuckle, but also thankful to Kevin for a 
well-written article.  Although it was written specifically for 
Broadcast-related industry, it's also very relevant to our little 
ecosystem.  Good stuff.

Chris Gebhardt
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