Someone leaves

Barbie decided to leave today. Forced, or on her own free will i dont know. But below is the email i sent her. She is, after all, my first boss, and took a chance on me. I owe her, and know i have battled with her, but i do wish her the best.

Dear Barbie,

I have to admit I am shocked you are leaving, but I am also confident you are headed to bigger and better things. You have been working to get with Warren Miller since our sales call to Tahoe (great trip by the way) and I am so happy you will be a part of something with him.

I have to write you because you are officially my first “real” boss. You took a chance on me, and thus you allowed me to start my career at such a great place. I think it should be a real testament to you that Puga and I have “survived” the ever changing TV20 because you were the driving force along with Denny teaching us and keeping us going.

I think your first boss is like your Kindergarten teacher, you never forget them (Ms. Rose, room 1A, Brown hair). I know that wherever I end up in the next year, 5 years, and beyond in my pursuit for my place in the corporate world of media , I will always be calling on my experience here at TV20, and the boss who took a chance with me all because of my website and experience as a captain of a sports team. For that, I am ever grateful to you.

I am always here and will always be here to help your kids through their water polo careers, hit Squaw slopes with you, or grab a beer of cocktail somewhere here in the city of the Peninsula. In the mean time while you are here, I will allow you to break the news to the Kitchenworks of our world the sad news you are leaving. You have been a staple here at KOFY for 25 years, and it is sad to see the change is ever present here. I am so glad you are headed to produce…that was always an itch you wanted to scratch!

Best of luck. Never delete my cell phone number or email!

Cheers-

Will

It "brought a tear" to her eye because she knows "i have so much potential in any field i choose." I hope her the best.

Accountabili-buddy Round 2

He is back...this time in multiple forms. He is not just Chaz calling me into meeting after meeting about where my accounts stand, what i have pending, and so on and so forth...The Accountabili-buddy has become ever present in multiple forms.

It started with an email from the CEO of the company that owns TV station. He began it with a simple economic lesson he cut and pasted from his recent issue of the Wall Street Journal. It then bled into a "we are freezing wages...we are making cut backs...i am taking a 12% salary cut...but i am still flying to each and every station i own in a private jet..."

Our station is pretty trim, and my job is not in limbo, but i fear others jobs are. I have made some new business closes, but it is just not enough for this sinking ship. i just stumbled upon a piece of paper that as I stand right now, I was responsible for 15% of the money brought in November. Between runner and I, we bring in over 45% of all the money in the station, yet we are by far the lowest paid. We see our new found colleagues sitting at their desk, collecting their six figure base, not even caring about making new business help keep this boat afloat.

Anyway, there are too many thoughts in this head about what I have to do about x, y, z client tomorrow to convince them that they should spend what little or no money they have left on me and marketing to people who have no money to spend on them...it is an interesting beast i call a job.