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I'm afraid I'm going to in and out again, as it was Shakespeare
Saturday, and I'm rather behind on dinner and stuff. But I'll be
listening, even when I'm not on screen!<br>
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Best to all,<br>
Erif.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/13/2023 4:38 PM, Scott Peterson
wrote:<br>
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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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Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
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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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Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</span></div>
<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>
<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);"><br>
</span></div>
<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>
<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);"><br>
</span></div>
<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>
<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);"><br>
</span></div>
<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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Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</span></div>
<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>
</span></div>
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Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
Mendocino</div>
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From: Marco McClean <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:memo@mcn.org"><memo@mcn.org></a><br>
Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] KZYX WTF?<br>
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Katharine Cole (KZYX Underwriting Coordinator)
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:uw@kzyx.org"><uw@kzyx.org></a> 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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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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