[BC] An Intervention....

[Edwin Bukont]

James B Potter wrote, "They tend to treat engineers like the Maytag Repair Man, and constantly
press for the time they will be back on the air even when the transmitter is
still melted and smoking "
 
That brings to mind a situation I had back in 1998.  Day hotter than hell like this one.  Of all the spares corporate let me stock, the one they did not was a blower motor, because with eight Graingers in the area, I could get that any day of the year.  Except that day!
 
Lost the main, lost the aux, and lost the portable 1kW (lent it to the co-owned, it came back broken, not told about).
 
CE of a competing station calls, knowing what transmitter we have, as he has the same, and lots of spares.  Wants to know what we need and he will bring it on down.  Which he did.  Just about when he walks in the door, the phone rings,,,,he looks at me,,,I mention is probably the GM for the 20th time.  He gets this look on his face, picks up the phone, and says something like, "Transmitter, Yes Sir, he is here but he is a bit busy trying to get you back on the air.  Yes Sir, you are.  I will make sure he calls you when you are back on".  He hit the hook switch for the phone and then he unplugged it.  I later found out the GM had asked my buddy "How come Ed cant come to the phone, its almost like I am getting in the way?".  He got a damn right you are affirmation of that.
 
That GM had needed that reality check for a long time coming.  

Edwin Bukont CTS, CSRE/DRB, CBNT 
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