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<font face="DorovarFLF-Carolus">Well said, Richard!<br>
Hopefully, the board will heed.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
Erif.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/29/2015 3:07 PM, Dr Richard Louis
Miller wrote:<br>
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style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">Richard Louis
Miller, M.A., Ph.D.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"
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style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">Clinical
Psychology</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"
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style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">Wikipedia: Dr
Richard Louis Miller</span></p>
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style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">Wikipedia: Wilbur
Hot Springs</span></p>
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Dear Members of the KZYX Board:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">I
am writing this because I will be
preparing for my Tuesday January 5 radio
broadcast and thus will be unable to
attend the Monday night Board meeting in
Ukiah.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000ff">The
purpose of this letter is to respectfully
request that you form a Board committee to
investigate the terminations</font></p>
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<font color="#0000ff"> of a very long list of
KZYX programmers. It is because the list
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of those terminated </div>
is so long that I am making this request. In
fact, more people have been fired from KZYX
during my almost 10 years with the station,
than I have witnessed being fired in my
entire 65 year working career.</font>
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and trust </div>
that in a small community, such as ours,
differences between programmers and management
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be cooperatively handled by sitting
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talking
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and sometimes mediating.</div>
Unfortunately this has not been the case. To
the contrary
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there have been summary firings which have
caused, disgrace, dishonor and negative
feelings towards the station
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its paid employees
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and the volunteer elected Board of
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ver the years </div>
I have called the station GM and offered to
mediate a meeting between management and a
fired programmer. I was told "thanks but no
thanks. I won't talk to that
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we all know the national journalist Brian
Williams was caught falsifying
information. He was demoted but he did
not lose his job or his career. At KZYX
I believe you will find that programmers
have been fired for infractions and in
some case</span></p>
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we
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may not </div>
even know why they were fired.
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programmers </div>
could have been suspended instead of fired.</div>
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summarily </div>
fired because of language used by a hip hop
singer during the 12-4AM safe harbor period.
Johanna was devastated. </div>
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anyone know why 16 year supervisor </span><span
style="color:rgb(39,5,245);background-color:yellow">Norman </span></p>
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Vall<span style="color:blue"> was fired? It
beggars the imagination to understand why Norm
was fired rather than talked with and
negotiated with.
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How are we to understand the firing of </div>
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volunteer</div>
in his 70s who, whether you agree with hi
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politics </div>
or not, has given so much of his life to our
community?
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are many</span></p>
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additional </div>
people on the list of those terminated. Els
Cooperrider, KC Meadows, Johanna Schultz,
Kristina Armistead, Doug Mckenty, John
Sakowicz,
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and more.</div>
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is simply bad public relations for our
station to have so many people in the
community who have been fired. </div>
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was to be expected that in a community of
activists some of those many people
fired would band together to take legal
action in the pursuit of some form of
satisfaction, nihilistic though </span></p>
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they </div>
may be. The amount of money
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managerial failure </div>
cost the station is most unfortunate and I
believe it could have been avoided via
negotiation
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/mediation </div>
instead of
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firing</div>
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in the workplace cause</span></p>
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some </div>
workers to feel unsafe and
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when </div>
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they think speaking out will get them fired.<span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">With
the new regime at KZYX we have an
opportunity to heal the past and start
anew with a fresh slate. </span></p>
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a Board committee to look into the firings
and possibly invite some of the fired
programmers to return, would be a proper
humanitarian effort and would do a great
deal for the public image of the station.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">Thank
you for taking the time to read my letter
and consider my request. I love our
station and consider it a privilege to be
allowed to broadcast... especially
considering some of my admitted
eccentricities.</span></p>
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you each excellent health,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">Richard</span></p>
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