Re: Dilbert 2 April: No resumes in the Dilbertverse?


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And I wasn't exaggerating about people getting written up for taking a
kid to the hospital -- I know of a woman at a plastics factory who got
a call from the school that her nine-year-old had fallen off some
playground equipment and broken his leg. She was written up because she
left work before her shift ended. And a new reporter at a paper where I
used to work was written up because, on what was about his third
assignment in a new town, he missed a turn and was half an hour late to
the interview. (There was no indication that the person being
interviewed cared in the least.) There are some pretty lousy places to
work in this world.

I got a call at work from my then-husband, telling me to get
home right now because he'd made a threatening phone call,
the recipient of the call phoned the cops, the cops were ready
to come get him, and he was going to blow the cops away if they
showed up. I needed to come home and prevent all that. I was
written up for leaving.

To draw this slightly astray, but along those same compassionate lines:

During my brief stay in talk radio, I worked a Christmas night. Now,
this was live talk -- no delay, no call-screener. The little light
would go on, I'd punch it, hello you're on the air. I had mentioned to
management that the show might go a little smoother if we could just
screen out the people who didn't know we were a talk format and would
call in during an interview segment to ask for weather conditions.

Anyway, of course, it being a major holiday, there were no callers, but
the news director volunteered to be my "guest" and we just sat in the
studio chatting about Christmases past and so forth. One little old
lady called in to talk about Perry Como. We talked a little more. The
phone rang again. It was a suicide caller, who declared his intentions
and then promptly hung up.

We spent the next 40 minutes to get him to call back. After half an
hour, I told him I'd go into the newsroom and if he wanted to talk to
me personally rather than on the air, he could call me there. A young
engineer who had the next airshift had wandered in and he and the news
director took over the on-air duties. About ten minutes later, the
phone in the newsroom rang, it was the guy, saying that he was okay and
that we had managed to talk him down just with what we were saying on
air.

The next morning, the discrepancy *** was a little longer than usual,
since we'd blown off some 45 minutes worth of commercials and even a
network news break.

Two days later, I was given a screener. Presumably because they figured
it made economic sense to hire someone who could hang up on those
troublesome callers before they messed up our programming revenues.

God bless us, every one!

Mike Peterson
Glens Falls NY


There's a lot of comfort in feeling like you did the
right thing, however you might have pissed off the
Corporate Agenda-makers.

8~)


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