[Kzyxtalk] Kzyxtalk Digest, Vol 108, Issue 7

[Scott Peterson]

Marco,

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.

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 Pubic 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.

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.

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.

Sincerely,

Scott M. Peterson
Mendocino
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   1. Re: KZYX WTF? (Marco McClean)


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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:38:02 -0800
From: Marco McClean <memo at mcn.org>
Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] KZYX WTF?
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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



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