Top 10 signs that you're about to get fired...

[McCovey Cove Returns]

You get "promoted" from weekends to overnights.

[Purplehaze]

You get assigned to work as the morning live reporter on the show you used to anchor.

[adam & doctor drew]

the station rolls out a new promotional campaign..... and you're not in it.

[newz2me]

You can't log on to the AP Newscenter.
or
You find your job posted here. This actually happened to our weekend anchor back when Medialine was a phone in service. She picked up her stuff and walked out 3 hours before the show. We ran Headline News in it's place, OUCH!

[ August 16, 2007, 09:23 PM: Message edited by: newz2me ]

[Omega Man]

You see a blind box ad for your market.
Your picture is no longer on the website.

[swingman]

Your GM hardly speaks to you after 3 years at the station, but has talked to you in the hallway 3 times in 1 week.

[Omega Man]

Oh, I forgot one from personal experience!
There is a meeting called on short notice for the entire station staff in the studio. You hear that the Corporate attorney and HR rep will be in attendance. graemlins/eusa_shifty.gif

[Clever Login Name]

Your boss calls you into his office and says "We need to talk about me firing you".

[Consider This]

Originally posted by newz2me:
She picked up her stuff and walked out 3 hours before the show. We ran Headline News in it's place, OUCH!You had three hours and couldn't find someone else who could anchor a show? What kind of craphouse was that station?

[Sir Dropham Pants]

The station hires an oily new consultant, gets a new set and new graphics.

[newz2me]

Originally posted by Consider This:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by newz2me:
She picked up her stuff and walked out 3 hours before the show. We ran Headline News in it's place, OUCH!You had three hours and couldn't find someone else who could anchor a show? What kind of craphouse was that station?</font>[/QUOTE]WMDT-TV, Salisbury, MD in 1992. Not only did we air Headline News that night, but we aired it for 2 straight weekends until the GM made the reporter from our Dover DE, bureau drive in and do the show until a replacement was hired. The weekday anchors refused to work it and I don't know why nobody just said "you're doing it!". As if he was afraid of making the matter worse than it already was. I mean come on, let the sports guy read the top stories off the AP, toss to weather and return to talk about sports for the rest of the show but no.. No news on weekends. Probably why we were #2 in a 2 station market.
Oh and our replacement was a gal named Bonnie Bernstein who eventually went on to bigger things with CBS Sports.

[Clever Login Name]

There's a joke in there about Bonnie going on to make other things bigger too, but I'm not quite sure what it might be ...

http://26thman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/bonnie.jpg

[Tripe Face]

Originally posted by newz2me:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Consider This:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by newz2me:
She picked up her stuff and walked out 3 hours before the show. We ran Headline News in it's place, OUCH!You had three hours and couldn't find someone else who could anchor a show? What kind of craphouse was that station?</font>[/QUOTE]WMDT-TV, Salisbury, MD in 1992. Not only did we air Headline News that night, but we aired it for 2 straight weekends until the GM made the reporter from our Dover DE, bureau drive in and do the show until a replacement was hired. The weekday anchors refused to work it and I don't know why nobody just said "you're doing it!". As if he was afraid of making the matter worse than it already was. I mean come on, let the sports guy read the top stories off the AP, toss to weather and return to talk about sports for the rest of the show but no.. No news on weekends. Probably why we were #2 in a 2 station market.
Oh and our replacement was a gal named Bonnie Bernstein who eventually went on to bigger things with CBS Sports.</font>[/QUOTE]I once turned down the News Director job there. Sounds like I made the right choice.

[Lazlo Toth]

Your card key no longer works. The security guard can't find your name on the list of employees. But he does have a box filled with your stuff waiting for you.

[ISTHISTHINGON?]

A sign your station is about to be sold....
Corporate big dawgs come in and start telling everyone how great the company is doing....so well they are going to buy more stations.
(month later, station sold)

[markminn]

You are in a 80-90s size market. As a reporter, you make 22K, obviously too much for that market size, so they need to drop your ass to make budget.

[McCovey Cove Returns]

Originally posted by Lazlo Toth:
Your card key no longer works. The security guard can't find your name on the list of employees. But he does have a box filled with your stuff waiting for you.I heard the story last week about a certain anchor who thought he was going to be the next big thing and told the newspaper all about it...

The scenario you speak of sounds quite familiar.

[tvcigar]

Originally posted by Tripe Face:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by newz2me:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Consider This:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by newz2me:
She picked up her stuff and walked out 3 hours before the show. We ran Headline News in it's place, OUCH!You had three hours and couldn't find someone else who could anchor a show? What kind of craphouse was that station?</font>[/QUOTE]WMDT-TV, Salisbury, MD in 1992. Not only did we air Headline News that night, but we aired it for 2 straight weekends until the GM made the reporter from our Dover DE, bureau drive in and do the show until a replacement was hired. The weekday anchors refused to work it and I don't know why nobody just said "you're doing it!". As if he was afraid of making the matter worse than it already was. I mean come on, let the sports guy read the top stories off the AP, toss to weather and return to talk about sports for the rest of the show but no.. No news on weekends. Probably why we were #2 in a 2 station market.
Oh and our replacement was a gal named Bonnie Bernstein who eventually went on to bigger things with CBS Sports.</font>[/QUOTE]I once turned down the News Director job there. Sounds like I made the right choice.</font>[/QUOTE]i worked in salisbury back then...wmdt went through weekend anchors like toilet paper. I think they had 12 weekend anchors in the 20 months i was down there.

[Lazlo Toth]

Originally posted by McCovey Cove Returns:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Lazlo Toth:
Your card key no longer works. The security guard can't find your name on the list of employees. But he does have a box filled with your stuff waiting for you.I heard the story last week about a certain anchor who thought he was going to be the next big thing and told the newspaper all about it...

The scenario you speak of sounds quite familiar.</font>[/QUOTE]Yep. And it didn't have to be that way.

[T'Challa]

The non-working card key kept me from making a big career boo-boo. I was interviewing for a reporting job in Denver in the early 90s. ND flew me in first class (which would have been a big deal except it was TWA.) Put me up in a nice hotel -- picked me and up and took me to breakfast. Then, we went to see the station, and - you guessed it - his key card wouldn't work. Could have been an electrical malfunction, but nobody seemed to be in a big hurry to manually open the gate and let him in. Needless to say, I took a pass, and the ND was pursuing other options within 90 days. Whew!

[adam &amp; doctor drew]

similar story to T'Challa:
I showed up for a scheduled interview only to find the ND packing up his office.
he'd been fired THAT MORNING.

they had me meet the GM and asst ND, neither of whom could give me a solid idea who the new ND would be (even though they both insisted I "shouldn't be concerned at all").

pass.

[Lazlo Toth]

I have a story from my past that's the same, only different. It happened in the late 1970s.

I was in a very small market and sent a tape (a 2 inch reel) to a GM in a less small market. (The ND had said, "I don't hire anybody. The GM does all the hiring.") The GM liked my tape, so he hired me over the phone. I said, "I haven't had a vacation in a couple years. You mind if I take two weeks off before I come to work?" He said okay. I said okay.

I moved all my stuff to the city where I was to be the bureau reporter for this station and put my paltry amount of possessions in a storage unit. The next day I was on my way to see my family and stopped in at my new station to say hello.

I went to the front desk and asked by name to see the GM, saying I had been hired there and was goming to work in a couple weeks. The receptionist said, "Oh my God." She seemed not to know what to do. She pointed to a couch there in the lobby and said, "Go sit down." She mumbled into her phone headset. A few minutes later, a guy came out and said, "I'm _____, the personnel director. Unfortunately, Mr. GM was let go this morning."

My heart stopped for a minute. I had quit a job and the guy who hired me for the next job had been fired. And then the guy said, "But of course that doesn't affect your employment with us. We're still looking forward to you staring in two weeks."

And that is my story of the guy who hired me and whom ... to this day .. I have never met.

[ August 19, 2007, 05:01 PM: Message edited by: Lazlo Toth ]

[RadioLongAgo]

According to Corey Deitz, author of The Cash Cage...the new owners say," 'We're not buying a station, we're buying the people.' I can guarantee you, if you ever hear that line from management, bend over and kiss your a** goodbye."

[upandown]

You request new business cards, and they never arrive.

[Sultanosurf]

You use up all your clothing allowance in the first month of the contract year, and somebody in the business office calls to say "Hey, how did you find out?"

The boss calls you in to a meeting in his office -- where you find two lawyers from corporate and one from the mayor's office.

The GM is giving a tour to a guy -- that looks just like you. (All three true)

I like Laz's story the best. Nice set-up, happy ending payoff.

[The Fedora]

Originally posted by Sultanosurf:
You use up all your clothing allowance in the first month of the contract year, and somebody in the business office calls to say "Hey, how did you find out?"

The boss calls you in to a meeting in his office -- where you find two lawyers from corporate and one from the mayor's office.

The GM is giving a tour to a guy -- that looks just like you. (All three true)

I like Laz's story the best. Nice set-up, happy ending payoff.The MAYOR"S office? What in the hell did you do? (Allegedly) smile.gif

[Sultanosurf]

Oh, nothing 'alleged' about it. Something came out of my mouth that I immediately wanted an industrial strength butterfly net to haul back. The funny thing was me knowing I was toast and how sweet and apologetic my boss was about it. Miss you Sean!

[The Invisible Swordsman]

The news director asks you to watch tapes from sports directors. Wait, I am the sports director. I mean I was the sports director.

[Mr. Rugen]

#27. You walk in the building and the GM monkey punches you right in the face and then starts throwing stuff at you while laughing wildly and passing gas.

[Tripe Face]

The News Director takes you to lunch at a fancy restaurant and talks to you in detail about giving you a big promotion... important new job...more money.

Then weeks later... TTFN!