Kirkwood wrote:
I'd be surprised if Bernstein ever did a favor for one of his co-workers.
"I'm sorry, but...(sigh) I have to think about how to put this. I know you're kind of new here, and you don't get how things work. And I'm sure you were a real standout at your college station in who-knows-where Missouri. But...and again, I know you're new, but there's (sigh) a way we do things around here, in Chicago, that isn't the way you're used to doing things. I know you think radio is fun. And sometimes it is fun. And that's good! But this isn't a commune. We're not all in this together. We're here to do our damn jobs and provide for our damn kids. You don't care about me outside these walls and I don't care about you. And...I mean, I know that sounds harsh, but you need to hear it this way, up front, honestly, because I've seen how these things get out of hand. There are stations where this kind of behavior flies, and, in a real sense, this was one of them, but it's not going to be one now. You're not going to owe me anything because I'm not going to
let you owe me anything. If you want to feel that sense of satisfaction, you need to know that everything you earned, you earned yourself, not because of me, and not because of anyone else who works here. And you can take that knowledge and choose to grow as a professional, or you can keep this outmoded Musketeer mentality and go do radio in Omaha. Or just ask Chad Feldman if
he has a quarter for the vending machine, I don't know."
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Molly Lambert wrote:
The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.