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[littlefallsmets]

The gerrymandering's a good point too.

Every district is either a lock for a psychotic Minuteman or a hippie who considers stepping on flowers to be murder. By design.

Doesn't exactly lend itself toward the sort of pragmatism that creates, you know, laws that actually work.

[jaydub]

So long as you don't expect to earn any interest on that loan, Ash...

[Choop]

bonus? lucky you. i'm taking a paycut and a couple folks in my office won't be soon. all pay raises and bonuses have been cancelled for a year. others are taking paycuts too. it's a rough year for this company, but hey, at least i get to move home. lucky me!

[miles]

Is she missing any teeth? Because if she is, that's extra.

[theinevitable]

every year we have someone new in charge of Training at the radio station, and it is always someone who has never held any other position, and the person who comes before them never explains how to do anything or what they need to teach the kids, and every single year we all act surprised that the new crop of DJs are completely incompetent and don't understand the rules.

this year the training director decided that hands-on training with the equipment is just a hassle, and that it should be optional. WHAT. our general manager is one of my very good friends, but he has this hands-off management style which really doesn't work if someone is screwing up this badly. barf.

[side_show]

Ha - this reminds me.  In university, I was abrupty apointed the photo club trainer for darkroom procedures even though I'd only used the darkroom under half a dozen times.  Thankfully I just avoided the situation and only had to train one person, who clearly knew more than me about developing film.

[theinevitable]

for some reason it is thought of as like an "entry level" position when it clearly requires a lot of knowledge about how the station works.
I frequently talk to the trainers and find out they don't know about rules, or can't explain the rules, or don't know the reasoning behind rules... no good.
but on a more practical level, every new trainer has to come up with all their own procedures for organizing everything, because knowledge is not passed on.

Actually this happens in almost every position at the station. Almost every procedure we have related to organizing new CDs, getting them reviewed, etc. was developed by me, because the people who did it before me didn't teach me anything about how things should work.

[Choop]

have you documented all your procedures and put together a "this is how you do it bitches" guidebook because it seems that might be helpful

[Drygioni]

Women

[Doc]

Heh, tell me about it.
*clinks beer*

[jay-ell]

for some reason it is thought of as like an "entry level" position when it clearly requires a lot of knowledge about how the station works.
I frequently talk to the trainers and find out they don't know about rules, or can't explain the rules, or don't know the reasoning behind rules... no good.
but on a more practical level, every new trainer has to come up with all their own procedures for organizing everything, because knowledge is not passed on.

Actually this happens in almost every position at the station. Almost every procedure we have related to organizing new CDs, getting them reviewed, etc. was developed by me, because the people who did it before me didn't teach me anything about how things should work.

This happens at every college in every student-run organization, it is not specific to your particular group. Hope that's some consolation.

But yeah, dude, write that shit down and pass it on. No need for future generations to be all reinventing wheels and shit just because that's the way it's always been done. I recommend putting it on Paper, print it off and put it in a three-ring binder, and passing it down in a small but elaborate ritual to your next-of-kin at the station when you graduate/move on, exhorting him or her to do the same to the next [your title here]. This will ensure that a mystique will develop around it, and people will do it your way for years to come, even after most people have arrived at the conclusion that your methods have become irrelevant or outdated. Whoever is in charge will say, "But we have to use the Burton method...it's how we've *always* done things!"

Bonus points for making the document look like it was printed in the '70s and passed down to you in a secret ceremony. (Find the worst copy machine on campus and make copies of copies of copies, dog-ear the pages, leave coffee rings on the leaves, drag the binder behind your car for a couple of miles.)

[Choop]

heh "The Burton Method"

make sure to get one of those cloth-wrapped binders, those take wear better than the regular plastic ones

[jay-ell]

OK, re-reading my previous post, I realize that it might be interpreted as a joke.

It is not. I seriously think you should do this. It would be simultaneously Very Helpful and Ridiculously Hilarious, provided you could pull off the part of the hoax where people think a long-gone alumni (AW?) had passed this wisdom on to you.

[wombat]

Hmm, you think he could get an actual binder from the 70s at a flea market or something?

And, if you really want to be serious about this: it should be printed as purple ditto machine copies.

[side_show]

Hmm, you think he could get an actual binder from the 70s at a flea market or something?

And, if you really want to be serious about this: it should be printed as purple ditto machine copies.

... while inexplicably referring to CD's and MP3's, but only of tunes from the 70's...