Oh dudes.... the rest of this week is so totally shot. The boss just dropped the 411 on the masses that Thursday is layoff day. I've known that for a few weeks now, but they all just found out. AND office attendance will be mandatory as those of us who will still be employed will have meetings to discuss our new responsibilities. AND I have to work tonight. AND the big day for FFR is tomorrow.
Can someone please just shoot me now?
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Mema, how about we call and tell the boss there is a family emergency. You will be unable to attend the work meeting because you have family responsibilities to lend support to your FFR family members during this time of displacement and mourning.
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DS...Not sure that would work, but I like it! Since I already have the advanced knowledge that I will be among those left standing I don't think he's gonna let me out of it though.
Boss went to Pambo's staff beating right after my crew's staff beating... delivered the low down that they will be working for him from here on out. Pambo, needless to say, was thrilled! Not so sure how the rest of the crew feels about it, but Pambo knows the boss ROCKS.
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ghostdancer wrote:Never know though; stranger things have happened, and JR has been prone to change his mind more than a woman changes her's.
Man, you guys make it sound like the station has been shut down half a dozen times in it's seven years.
I'll admit, it's been a lot harder facing this shutdown that I thought it would be at times. The truth is I really don't want to shut it down, but I know it makes no sense to keep broadcasting to a group of people smaller than I see at most bus stops when I'm driving in to work at 10:00 PM.
The one thing that's actually kept me from falling back and changing my mind is my awareness of the fact everyone expects that I WILL fall back and change my mind.
At this point the only thing I see bringing it back is if I can develop an iPhone / iPad app, which I do plan to start working on immediately. If that worked I would try a one month test run to see if having an app like that out there would be effective at bringing in new listeners in decent numbers.
I have no idea how hard building an app would be, or how long it would take. It would seem to me, with my very limited knowledge of programming, that a station streaming app would be among the easiest to build. It's not like it's an action game. It's a screen image and a link to a stream, right? How hard can that be?
I do know that the quotes I've gotten for having one done for us were between $1200 and $1500 bucks. so it may be a lot more time consuming than I'm thinking it will be.
Oh dudes.... the rest of this week is so totally shot. The boss just dropped the 411 on the masses that Thursday is layoff day. I've known that for a few weeks now, but they all just found out. AND office attendance will be mandatory as those of us who will still be employed will have meetings to discuss our new responsibilities. AND I have to work tonight. AND the big day for FFR is tomorrow.
Can someone please just shoot me now?
I thought layoffs were over. We're into the recovery phase now aren't we?
ghostdancer wrote:Never know though; stranger things have happened, and JR has been prone to change his mind more than a woman changes her's.
Man, you guys make it sound like the station has been shut down half a dozen times in it's seven years.
I'll admit, it's been a lot harder facing this shutdown that I thought it would be at times. The truth is I really don't want to shut it down, but I know it makes no sense to keep broadcasting to a group of people smaller than I see at most bus stops when I'm driving in to work at 10:00 PM.
The one thing that's actually kept me from falling back and changing my mind is my awareness of the fact everyone expects that I WILL fall back and change my mind.
At this point the only thing I see bringing it back is if I can develop an iPhone / iPad app, which I do plan to start working on immediately. If that worked I would try a one month test run to see if having an app like that out there would be effective at bringing in new listeners in decent numbers.
I have no idea how hard building an app would be, or how long it would take. It would seem to me, with my very limited knowledge of programming, that a station streaming app would be among the easiest to build. It's not like it's an action game. It's a screen image and a link to a stream, right? How hard can that be?
I do know that the quotes I've gotten for having one done for us were between $1200 and $1500 bucks. so it may be a lot more time consuming than I'm thinking it will be.
I guess I'll find out.
I don't know if that's as much a time consumption thing as much as it is an in demand service which has turned around and earned people lots of money.
I've been watching some tutorials and it doesn't seem like something that would be too hard to learn. In fact, Marquette has a few classes on Apple Development, I'll probably take one of them the next time enrollment comes around.
If I could get good at it then it might be a nice source of extra income.
There wouldn't be any harm in keeping the station up while you work on the app then, would there?
If we could pass the hat among us to cover your streaming costs.....
Well, that's where the wavering was coming in Mursc. But I'm diving into this completely uncertain of what's involved.
Apple will not let you run their development software on a PC, so until I get my hands on an iMac I can't even look at the actual software. At this point I don't know if I'll look at it and say "oh, this is not hard at all" or if I'll say "holy crap, this is way above me".
I do have hope though after reading a story last week about some 11 year old kid who was sick in a hospital bed and created his own game App for sale in the app store. Hopefully I'm smarter than a fifth grader.
I'm just checking in. I called my dad last night and he was going to be in town for a meeting this morning so I took advantage of that and ordered the concrete for the first pour of the shed.
I called this morning and gave the measurements to the concrete guys and he came up with the same numbers I did. We ordered the concrete to arrive about 10:00. My dad was here, the truck was on time, it was going smoothly, then we ran out of concrete with about a foot and-a-half of forms left to fill. Dang.
The driver ran back and got just enough more to finish it out and we got it poured. It's a good thing the concrete place is only about five minutes away and not 20 miles.
I know we figured it right, my area to fill must have been deeper in the middle or something.
Anyway, after two runs, we got it all filed and floated by noon. We ate lunch and my dad went on home. After lunch, I got it smoothed up with a finish trowel and its getting quite hard.
Web, you should do a Let's Build A Shed thread like the ladies on "For Your Home" on PBS do it.
Show a picture of where the shed is going to go.
Hire a guy to build the shed for you, preferably from a premade kit.
Show a picture of yourself with the guy in the middle of construction. (No need to explain what's going on. No need to contribute to the construction.)
Show a picture of the completed shed and call it a Do It Yourself project.
(If you can't tell, I don't like "For Your Home.")
Oh dudes.... the rest of this week is so totally shot. The boss just dropped the 411 on the masses that Thursday is layoff day. I've known that for a few weeks now, but they all just found out. AND office attendance will be mandatory as those of us who will still be employed will have meetings to discuss our new responsibilities. AND I have to work tonight. AND the big day for FFR is tomorrow.
Can someone please just shoot me now?
I thought layoffs were over. We're into the recovery phase now aren't we?
Not when you work for a multi-national corporation headquartered in Europe. They are all about the bottom line. Doing more with less. Or doing less with less at a lower cost anyway. The department I work in will be ravaged this time.
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(If you can't tell, I don't like "For Your Home.")
I don't think I've seen that show.
Right now, it's raining on my new concrete. I think it will be ok though. I've got it covered with a tarp and it is already solid enough I could walk on it if I had to.
I may not dedicate a thread to it, but I'll likely post some pictures along the way. It is going to be a nice sized little building. The main part is 10' x 16' and then I'm going to add a covered patio/porch area across the 16' front of it for grillin', sittin', etc.
I got another 10' piece of electrical conduit buried in the yard this afternoon. About two more sections and I'll almost be over to the house.
Since I already have the advanced knowledge that I will be among those left standing I don't think he's gonna let me out of it though. 
