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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Marco,</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Anybody in private sector business development knows that salespeople have to generate at least
five times their paycheck to keep their job. That's the bare minimum. </span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The average annual pay at KZYX is $35,000 these days. Assuming that Ms. Cole's compensation is
average, that'd make her nut $175,000 in underwriting revenue for Mendocino County
<u>Pubic</u> Broadcasting (no typo there). Last time I checked, that figure was closer to $38,000. So maybe KZYX should think about cutting her loose too.</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Then we have the headcount discrepancy. The KZYX website says there are nine staffers there. The
latest Form 990 -- filed under penalty of perjury -- puts that number at twelve. Generally speaking, business development people -- including underwriting professionals like Ms. Cole -- know how to count. </span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Should the self-declared pauper Ms. Cole find herself out of work someday, the people who pretend
to run KZYX ought to pony up for someone who can actually cut it.</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof">Scott M. Peterson<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
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1. Re: KZYX WTF? (Marco McClean)<br>
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From: Marco McClean <memo@mcn.org><br>
Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] KZYX WTF?<br>
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Katharine Cole (KZYX Underwriting Coordinator) <uw@kzyx.org> wrote:<br>
> Wow, but I'm below the poverty level every tax year somehow. Strange.<br>
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Then you're participating in your own oppression, Katharine.<br>
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What part of /A handful of people in the office are paid hundreds of <br>
thousands of dollars a year and the airpeople are paid nothing/ did you <br>
not grasp?<br>
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You're an airperson as well as working in the office; you and all the <br>
other airpeople should be paid to do /radio/. The corporation is <br>
swimming in money, mostly tax-derived money of the CPB grant and <br>
tax-write-off donations from corporations and rich people. Considerably <br>
more than half a million dollars a year. At least four times the entire <br>
expenses and operating costs of the station. There is plenty of money to <br>
pay you to do radio at KZYX. Yet you're much more valuable to the cult <br>
in your money-raising job, so /that's/ what you're being paid to do, and <br>
it's not enough, so you deliberately misunderstand me. I want to say <br>
/strange/ back, but it's not strange, you're defending your cult and <br>
that's how people in a cult think.<br>
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The radio station is not there for the purpose of providing a nice life <br>
for the manager nor jobs, such as they are, for people in the office. <br>
The radio station is there to provide a platform for talent to do radio. <br>
If the airpeople are valuable volunteers, let the /manager/ and her <br>
bean-counters and valuably volunteer. It's not as though the manatger is <br>
essential. She has a business underwriting coordinator (that's you, <br>
Katharine) to coordinate the business underwriting, a bookkeeper to keep <br>
the books, a program director to direct the programs, an operations <br>
manager to manage the operations, an engineer to engineer, and so on, <br>
and the so-called manager gets $60,000 a year anyway, for what? If she <br>
just suddenly one day decided to take a week or a month off and sleep <br>
in, who would notice? "Hey, did the boss come in today?" "Nah. What's <br>
the problem?" "I can't get the copier to work." "Yeah, here, lemme show <br>
you. You have make sure there's paper in it and press the copy button." <br>
"Ah, I see. Thanks." Yet if even a single one of the airpeople failed to <br>
show up, in twenty seconds the phones would begin ringing non-stop. The <br>
/local airpeople/ are essential. If anybody's being paid, they're the <br>
ones who should be paid. If they're independently wealthy and don't need <br>
the money, they can tear up the check. If they need the money, they can <br>
buy tires, or food, or internet service, or tools to do their projects, <br>
or gas to get to the station, or whatever. But pay them.<br>
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Marco McClean, memo@mcn.org<br>
<a href="https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com">https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com</a><br>
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