A Loyal Reader Writes:
“The afternoon jock at our station is terrible! The worst air talent I have ever heard. Her ratings are in the toilet, she is mean to listeners (that’s if she even picks up the phone), she does no show prep (does it count as show prep if you do it in the middle of your airshift?), and during her shift she shops for things online.
“I know that my PD is aware of her ‘awfullness,’ but he’s not doing anything about it. He keeps telling me that things are going to change soon. It’s been about six months, and nothing has happened!
“I’m tired of taking phone calls from listeners telling me that she is terrible. I’m getting sick of people on the street telling me that they can’t listen to the station between the hours of 2pm and 6pm! What do I do? Keep my mouth shut and just do my job?”
If you play your cards wrong, one day you’ll become a program director and then you’ll have to worry about jocks who do a lousy job.
Until then, enjoy the freedom to concentrate only on your own radio program and your own performance.
I will add, however, that if I were a PD whose jock was spending her on-air time shopping online, I would give that jock one warning and then fire her if she did it again.
