First 2 Words On Air Gets News Guy Fired

The mike is always hot.

We begin the bombing in 5 minutes.
 
flyingron said:
The mike is always hot.

We begin the bombing in 5 minutes.
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For broadcasters mikes are always hot, kinda like guns, they are always loaded. Cussing? Never ever cuss in the TV station, ever. :rolleyes:

This is not gonna look good on his resume. :rofl:
 
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When your profession is public speaking, perhaps it's not a bad idea to purge the habit of cursing all together. It seldom raises the level of discourse.
 
Well ****. This guy was a ****ing moron. :D:D:D:D:rofl:

First rule of broadcasting: Assume the mic is always open.
Second rule of broadcasting: See rule 1.
 
Serious indication that you are not cut out for the job you've been hired to do.

But, I can beat that. I was fired from a company that I never even worked for!

Back in the 80s I was a field rep for IBM. My boss had me going to EDS in Plano to work on a huge water cooled mainframe system. We always wore the coat and tie. When I got to the site, I took off my coat(with visitor badge) and tie so I could dig into the machine. Some dippy little prik walked in and escorted me directly to HR, and had me give my name so I could be 'outprocessed'. Seems I wasn't in their empl DB, and I didn't tell him I was a vendor. There was an inspection coming from Perot that afternoon, and he wanted everything ship-shape for the big boss. I went and got my coat and tie, picked up my tools and left the machine apart in a 1000 bits. Toooooo baaaaaaaad!
 
docmirror said:
Serious indication that you are not cut out for the job you've been hired to do.

But, I can beat that. I was fired from a company that I never even worked for!

Back in the 80s I was a field rep for IBM. My boss had me going to EDS in Plano to work on a huge water cooled mainframe system. We always wore the coat and tie. When I got to the site, I took off my coat(with visitor badge) and tie so I could dig into the machine. Some dippy little prik walked in and escorted me directly to HR, and had me give my name so I could be 'outprocessed'. Seems I wasn't in their empl DB, and I didn't tell him I was a vendor. There was an inspection coming from Perot that afternoon, and he wanted everything ship-shape for the big boss. I went and got my coat and tie, picked up my tools and left the machine apart in a 1000 bits. Toooooo baaaaaaaad!
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:rofl:

Now that is good!
 
3393RP said:
Jeez, looking back at the specs on a 3090 today it's almost comical how limited they were...the 3090-600 took up about 800 square feet of floor space. :D

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS189-017/index.html
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We made gobs of money on the 308x and 3090. It was an inspiring success despite the drawbacks of space and power required. With the added vector processors(floating point calcs) they were blistering fast for the day.

Sad to see the dinosaurs go.
 
LDJones said:
When your profession is public speaking, perhaps it's not a bad idea to purge the habit of cursing all together. It seldom raises the level of discourse.
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I agree with Joney, swearing is just a bad habit and a good one to break for anyone, regardless.
 
You know what most people don't understand...if you use profanity all the time it completely loses its effectiveness.

I rarely cuss. So when I DO, those who just don't hear that from me take notice that something is actually wrong and I'm deadly serious.

I like to reserve such items for shock value when I need to shock folks into listening.
 
I've never had anyone say to me, "wow, that guy is so cool the way he cusses."

A friend of mine is so loud and swears so much, that when we go to coffee I am constantly telling him to quit swearing and tone it down a little. His attitude is that if people don't like it, that is their problem. The thing is that he doesn't have very many friends and if he doesn't control himself I won't have coffee with him and he doesn't want to lose one of the few friends he has. It is almost comical to watch the, "screw everyone" persona fighting with the persona that can't afford to lose a friend. :D
 
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There is a fairly popular radio talk show in Northern California featuring two dudes that swear over the air on a very regular basis. I think that precedent has already been set. If calling someone a DH or a P on the air isn't swearing, I don't know what is.
 
JeffDG said:
You know what most people don't understand...if you use profanity all the time it completely loses its effectiveness.

I rarely cuss. So when I DO, those who just don't hear that from me take notice that something is actually wrong and I'm deadly serious.

I like to reserve such items for shock value when I need to shock folks into listening.
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Profanity has it's place. When my friend went to the police academy the class was taught, lets call it "tactical swearing."

You don't walk up to an old lady on the street and say "how the eff you doing?" But "drop the effing gun!" Is perfectly acceptable and often encouraged.
 
Skylane81E said:
Profanity has it's place. When my friend went to the police academy the class was taught, lets call it "tactical swearing."

You don't walk up to an old lady on the street and say "how the eff you doing?" But "drop the effing gun!" Is perfectly acceptable and often encouraged.
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It's like one anecdote I sometimes use...I've shoved my wife precisely once, ever...I had a telescope set up with a solar filter pointed at the sun, told her to take a look. Her head was going for the (unfiltered) finder scope, and I shoved her quite hard, lest she be blinded.
 
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