Join Me in Snarkville

Yesterday, while I was working on some stuff for SeaSocks, I made a call to a friend, Amie, and got her to answer all my pressing questions. Now, Amie is great to talk to on the phone and it was no wonder that she told me she was once voted the favorite radio personality in her market — back in her other life before she chucked the glamous radio life for knitting.

She told me of this awesome story where she had gotten this amazing vote of confidence from her fans and went to station management to ask for a cost of living increase (not a huge bonus — just a little bump for cost of living) and was promptly turned down because “you don’t vacuum enough.” HELLO?? She wasn’t the maid, she was an on air personality and good at it.

I tell you her story to relate my own.

Last night I made another guest appearance on the White Roof Radio Event podcast. (Yes, I’ll post the link when it is up.) Now, after 46ish podcasts of our own, plus the three I’ve done with db of White Roof Radio (I’ve never appeared on their main show — which may be because I have very LITTLE car knowledge or their preference for Prince’s Snark over my own or I’m a girl, who can really tell?), I have a few things to discuss with management:

• First, I’d like to thank management for providing me with headphones last night. It makes it MUCH easier to have db in my head and I think the show benefits from me not saying, “what? what? I can’t hear him on your crappy speakers all the way over THERE.” the whole night. What took you so long?
• I would like my work conditions improved. I find it difficult to record with the needed levels of enthusiam and grace when a cat is licking my toes. Could you kindly enforce a no licking during broadcasting rule, please?
• I apologize for any laughter snorts that you may have to endure, since I was having way too much fun last night not to snort a time or two. I also may have confused the word ’southwest’ with ‘northwest’ but who will really care about that? And I may or may not have discussed the cost of internet access in some remote corner of Nevada — oh, can I hope for some kind editing??
• Finally, I would like a cost of living increase. In accordance with the above mentioned requirements, I have the robot vacuuming so that I can avoid this previously unknown pitfall in getting an increase.

Now given all of this, I can not imagine why Amie ever left the world of radio. She claims it is because they paid her too much and were consistantly too kind to her — but I think she may be full of it. I however have decided that I could do this radio gig — provided bonuses are based on vacuuming and NOT on ratings. (Well, as long as I have my robot to do the vacuuming — and Prince doesn’t unplug him again.)