[BC] State Licensing

[DANA PUOPOLO]

What you say is true much of the time. Many engineers do speak a language
foreign to management. many engineers also lack communication skills. Some
even lack social skills. I certainly won't deny that.

And....

Many managers don't include the engineer in as part of their 'team'.  How many
of you get to use the restaurant trade that the programming department has so
much of it they give it away to interns?
When was the last time many of you got a note or email thanking you for your
contribution to the station? Yet, these same clowns don't waste a second
sending one to chastize us. 

I've been very fortunate over the years to have had some GREAT managers that
not only valued my contribution, they showed it in many ways, including pay. 
I've also worked for managers who have called home and woke me up at 9:15 AM
screaming that I'm not at work, when they knew in writing I had been working
until 6 AM and just fell asleep an hour ago!

I guess what I'm trying to say is that being the best communiicator in the
world doesn't help for s**t if your boss refuses to listen.

Unfortuantely, over the past 20 years or so, virtually all managers in radio
have come from sales. Good sales persons spend the least amount of time in a
radio station because they're too busy on the street selling. Then they are
promoted to manager, and expected to manage the very place where they've spent
the least amount of their time. It's the Peter Principle in action!   By FAR
the best managers I have worked for have come from programming, operations and
yes even engineering.

-D
------ Original Message ------
Received: Fri, 20 May 2005 01:03:28 PM PDT
From: "Phil Alexander" <dynotherm at earthlink.net>
To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] State Licensing

On 20 May 2005 at 10:39, DANA PUOPOLO wrote:

> I would agree with most of this, except I believe that I believe we are
paid
> on our PERCEIVED value! Since many (most?) managers couldn't buy a clue with
a
> 100 dollar bill about what we do, we are perceived as a cost center, not a
> member of the team. As long as managers in top ten markets feel that they
> "can't justify the going rate for an engineer", things will not get better.

Dana,

I agree with you, but WHY is it that way, and if WE don't change it, who
will?

It's true that some managers are hopeless, but many are not IF they are
educated to the facts.

I ran into a situation very recently where one of the problems in a tight DA
was high grass. The response I got was, "Oh, nobody ever explained grass
could cause a pattern problem." To which I replied, "Yes, it has water in it
and water conducts, you see." The response to that was, "Yes, and it will be
cut as soon as we can get someone out there, and every two weeks afterward
if that's what it needs."

It's lack of communication in understandable terms that causes the false
perceptions in many cases, IMHO.


Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology 
(a Div. of Advanced Parts Corporation) 
Ph. (317) 335-2065   FAX (317) 335-9037





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