[Kzyxtalk] KZYX WTF?

[Marco McClean]

Katharine Cole (KZYX Underwriting Coordinator) <uw at kzyx.org> wrote:
 > Wow, but I'm below the poverty level every tax year somehow. Strange.

Then you're participating in your own oppression, Katharine.

What part of /A handful of people in the office are paid hundreds of 
thousands of dollars a year and the airpeople are paid nothing/ did you 
not grasp?

You're an airperson as well as working in the office; you and all the 
other airpeople should be paid to do /radio/. The corporation is 
swimming in money, mostly tax-derived money of the CPB grant and 
tax-write-off donations from corporations and rich people. Considerably 
more than half a million dollars a year. At least four times the entire 
expenses and operating costs of the station. There is plenty of money to 
pay you to do radio at KZYX. Yet you're much more valuable to the cult 
in your money-raising job, so /that's/ what you're being paid to do, and 
it's not enough, so you deliberately misunderstand me. I want to say 
/strange/ back, but it's not strange, you're defending your cult and 
that's how people in a cult think.

The radio station is not there for the purpose of providing a nice life 
for the manager nor jobs, such as they are, for people in the office. 
The radio station is there to provide a platform for talent to do radio. 
If the airpeople are valuable volunteers, let the /manager/ and her 
bean-counters and valuably volunteer. It's not as though the manatger is 
essential. She has a business underwriting coordinator (that's you, 
Katharine) to coordinate the business underwriting, a bookkeeper to keep 
the books, a program director to direct the programs, an operations 
manager to manage the operations, an engineer to engineer, and so on, 
and the so-called manager gets $60,000 a year anyway, for what? If she 
just suddenly one day decided to take a week or a month off and sleep 
in, who would notice? "Hey, did the boss come in today?" "Nah. What's 
the problem?" "I can't get the copier to work." "Yeah, here, lemme show 
you. You have make sure there's paper in it and press the copy button." 
"Ah, I see. Thanks." Yet if even a single one of the airpeople failed to 
show up, in twenty seconds the phones would begin ringing non-stop. The 
/local airpeople/ are essential. If anybody's being paid, they're the 
ones who should be paid. If they're independently wealthy and don't need 
the money, they can tear up the check. If they need the money, they can 
buy tires, or food, or internet service, or tools to do their projects, 
or gas to get to the station, or whatever. But pay them.

Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com