THe title to my post refers to coaching methouds in the coorperate mode. A carrot represents incentive for doing well a stick is used to try to bring someone who doesn't do well in line. I've been lucky so far in my carrer at searsa, I've been lucky enough to work for managers that find ways to help me harness my talents and bring the best out of me. When correction is needed they work with me during the correctional period and we move forward. I have a manager currently who only seems toknow how to use a stick. I've been put on so many memo's and all for puney silly secondary things that I can't even keep em all straight. I left work early yesterday because of pain in my shoulders and back coupled with an intestinal problem. I was getting tired of leaving my work station every 30 min to either walk around and stretch or go to the restroom so I went home. I am being put on a final warning nbow for my attendance. Attendance problems that either stem from health issues or the car wreck. Does my manager think that backing me into a corner is going toi make me perform my job better? Does she really believe that this is going to make me a better associate for the company? I don't think she does and that is the part that ascares me. FOr whatever reason I think she wants me to quit.
Anybody got a beer?
M

Group wants to ban word 'midget' on TV
Associated Press

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

(07-07) 04:00 PDT New York --

Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV.

The group Little People of America said Sunday the word is just as offensive as racial slurs.

The request was prompted by an April episode of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" that the group said was demeaning.

In the episode, contestants created a detergent ad called "Jesse James and the Midgets." The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry.

Calls to the FCC and "Celebrity Apprentice" host Donald Trump were not immediately returned Sunday. NBC Universal representatives didn't immediately respond to e-mail messages, and the telephone rang unanswered at their Los Angeles office.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/07/DDAP18JFKM.DTL

This article appeared on page E - 8 of the San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/07/DDAP18JFKM.DTL&type=printable

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I don't get it. Why is the term 'little person' less offensive as midget? I'm fat but I don't think I'd like to be referred to as 'fat person'. If I called kids I would refer to them as little people so do midgets like to be equated to kids?

Short people got no reason
short people got no reason
Short people got no reason to sue

People who are over 7 feet tall do we call them tall people? no we call them giants. We call short people midgets. What's the big deal? Are there any midgets out there that would like to fill me in on why this is deemed offensive? Seriously
M

This "General Anxiety Disorder" if that is what I indeed have continue to preplex me. My medicine I suppose does what it should, it keeps it from escalating into full blown panic. It allows me to think of other things but the muscle tension in my shoulders back chest and neck still is there. I can be in the best mood as I have been all day today and I've battled the tension all day. I move I stretch my bones crack and it's just not the best feeling and I wonder if it will ever fully go away. I honestly had hoped maybe that car accident I had about a month ago would've knocked it out of my system, it hasn't

My weight is still horrible but at least I am not gaining anymore.

Honestly though I have been in a good mood lately just sore and achey and am beginning to wonder if I'll have to live with it forever

I guess there could be worse things

M

Ok so I know that my last update didn't really fill in the blanks as to why I as leaving the station. Basically it comes down to a couple things, loyalty to my friends and not being treated like an asshole. Loyalty to my friends because a good friend of mine started that station and then got sick and had the station taken away from him from the people he had hired to help him run it. Being treated like an asshole? Well what can I say my shows were never promoted they gave me shit times for permanat slots. The people I thought were friends started giving me the cold shoulder for no reason. It just all around was not a fun situation to be involved in so I left.

Will I do radio again? That all depends. It'd have to be a station that realizes the difference between sometyhing that is fun and a hobby and something that is a businesss. If you want to run a station like a business that's fine but I had better be compensated for my time on the air and my production talents. Otherwise just let people enjoy themselves that's what it's for anyway.

I've thought bout starting my own but I dunno if I really have that much time to invest and I am not sure about how much it would cost server wise. I'm not all that smarat at techinically setting something like that up. It's a possibility I suppose and I think with my background I cou8ld run the fuck out of a station and have it be fairly successful but who knows.

As with anything on the net there always seems to be alot of drama involved in trying to make anything happen. I don't know why we tend towards drama these days but everyone does it seems. People just can't seem to live life and enjoy they gotta try to piss on everyone elses parade. Aww well cest la vie right?

As of today I am no longer affiliated with Rebel Riot Radio. Pretty much another example of a bunch of hobbiests who take their shit way too seriously.

I still to this day remember the very first time I saw the video for Thriller. Mark and I were being babysat and we were over at someone's house and the babysitter had two young boys our age. I don't remember their names but I do remember they knew alot about Michael Jackson and the Thriller video. They kept telling us how cool and awesome it was and while we were playing all afternoon MTV was on in the background, waiting for that magical moment to come when the video would roate onto the air. Finally the evil breathing the red writing there it was. We watched and laughed and high 5'd. We loved the part when he turned into a warewolf but we loved the ghoul dance even more. After the video we spent the entire rest of the day pretending we were ghouls and warewolves. I didn't even know what a ghoul was but I knew I wanted to be one.

After that day for weeks whenever we were at home and playing MTV was on in the background. We didn't really pay much attention to the other music on the channel but whenever Thriller would come on the air we would stop whatever we were doing and watch it. I learned all the words to the vincent price poem. When HBO made a "making of" special on it we recorded it and more times than not we'd fast forward the video tape to the actual video which showed at the end of the hour long special.

When I was around 7 or 8 we went to Disneyland and got to see the Captain Eo show which was more or less a 3D music video. Both Mark aand I asked for and got Bad on cassette and we played that tape more times than I think the tape was made for. I am surprised we didn't wear it out.

When I learned that Michael Jackson had passed I was shocked. Not shocked that he died I was aware of the medical issues he basically gave himself with all the surguries he had and the medicine he injested. I was shocked because,,,, a huge part of my youth was now gone. Just another example of how fragile we are I suppose. If Michael Jackson, who appeared sometimes to be larger than life could become so buried in the depths of a wasted life and self destruct like he did, what then can be said for the rest of us?

Why do we care so much that MJ died? Cause we were kids, we lived and grew up in the 80's, we moonwalked in front of the mirror we all wore only one glove(mine wasn't silver it was a snow glove leave me alone) Cause we all had birthday parties where Beat It was played. Cause we know all the words to SMooth Criminal. Cause we all wanted to go see him perform live(but some of us never made it). Because we watched him fall and fall and fall in tabloid rumors and scandal, because we wanted to see him rise again and he was almost there.

We care because whether you like him or not MJ was an Icon, for those of us who grew up in the 80's it's safe to say he was OUR Icon. Michael Jackson was an important part of my formitive years. Anyone who had any dream at all about being a musician had a lot they could learn from Michael. I don't think the young kids coming up now have an icon like that. The generation before us had Elvis we had Michael and no one has replaced him. I don't know that anyone can the music coming out today just doesn't seem to have the staying power. I don't know maybe I am just getting old. I just don't think in 30 years people are going to be singing Sexyback

I could be wrong,,,,,,

Happy Saturday to y'all! I shal be DJin here in just a bit at 2pm PDT (that's 3 mountain 4 central and 5 on the East) You know you want to listen

http://listen.rebelriotradio.com/high.m3u

Lemme know if you tune in and I shall give you a shout out

I wanted to make a recording of me singing today and I had been listening to this song alot lately and loved the way the mix came out. I thought I would share. PLEASE lemme know what you think(yes that means I'd love comments)

https://www.yousendit.com/download/cmcwYlJTeFU5bEIzZUE9PQ

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_michael_jackson

AP Source: Michael Jackson dies in LA hospital

LOS ANGELES – A person with knowledge of the situation says Michael Jackson has died in Los Angeles. The person, who was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity, says the King of Pop died at age 50 in a Los Angeles hospital.


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WIll probably post more about this later