Charlie wrote:

  Everything Bell seems to do makes them look like bloodless, totally despicable D-bags 

Inexcusable they did not wait 'til Friday for her annual heartfelt Buddy Holly/Ritchie Valens tribute, before dusting her
 

Last edited by Kilgore (January 29, 2017 4:07 pm)

From 1980:

Ingrid Schumacher on CHUM-FM

Last edited by RadioActive (January 29, 2017 5:09 pm)

So sorry to see Ingrid have to join 'the club'.  She isn't the first.  She won't be the last.  Perhaps it was her outstanding talent which allowed her to outdistance the grim reaper of radio for as long as she did.  The audience ALL 'get' talent, ability and class.  Management never has...because they don't have any of those attributes.  If they did they wouldn't be in management.  They would be on the air...getting fired by entirely oversized assholes just like they are.

It must be a big deal if it actually made the Star publish anything about local radio.

The difference between her high road comments and that of management speaks volumes, without either one saying very much at all.

Ingrid Schumacher out at CHUM FM after 40 years

Many bell layoffs. Heather Blackman in Montreal, Scott rintould and Peter schaad in Vancouver as well as Coleen Christie from ctv

Old Codger wrote:

  Anyone have some discrete contact info/e-mail for Ingrid?    

But if discrete contact info is passed to you, would the individual sharing it be committing an indiscretion?
 

There comes a time when one has to decide...Do I want another round of this same old shit?  Is there actually a place to work, in the big smoke, where they REALLY do appreciate me and value what it is that I personally have to offer?  Is there a time-slot, other than morning drive, which really comes with the security which will allow me to decide exactly WHEN *I* have finally finished doing what it is that I truly enjoy doing?

The answer to those questions...questions which may actually matter to a talented broadcaster...is NO!!!

So?

You grab as much dough as you can.  After 40 years that will be a LARGE number.  And you say to yourself..."You know what?  These clowns are a gross, collective herd of no-talent 'arsewipists' who aren't worth giving any more of my time to.  They don't care about me.  They sure as shit don't care about the audience.  For them it's just cold, hard, heartless, bottom-line business.  Not even the advertisers count.  It's only about coming in UNDER budget and making the bottom line attractive for current and interested shareholders. Do I really want to try again and watch as the career I spent so many years cultivating slowly but surely flutters to the ground like some dead leaf as I vainly clutch and grab at 1 or 2 last 'kicks at that rusty old can'?   Fuck THAT!!! !!! !!!"

CHFI?  For what?  More ultimate disrespect?  When Ingrid first arrived at see-humm FM...she had some hand in what she presented to the audience she spent her time cultivating.  They came to know her in oh-so many ways.  Her show, presentation, style and personality were unique.  People came to know her...to trust her...to make her destination listening...a good habit...as a member of the family.  In spite of dime-a-dozen, piss poor programming...programming that was slowly taken almost completely out of her hands...she had established her credibility with the most important asset the radio station owned.  And that?  That is the people who spend their time listening to it.  Without them see-humm FM has diddly-squat.

It's what they deserve.  Ingrid and other PROS just like her deserve FAR BETTER.  So too does the audience but that will never be recognized by THIS fading 'industry'.  It's why radio, as we know it, is about 2 generations away from becoming entirely extinct.  No head.  No heart.  No pulse.

Don wrote:

Yep. As someone caught up in one of these rounds, I can say they have their legal ducks in a row, paid out way more than legally required, and were really quite civil about it.

My condolences to you on losing a gig at this time in this market. Been there, done that. Hopefully, you'll be back up and running soon.

Charlie wrote:

StevieB wrote:

This is terrible. These people at Bell just don't get it. I'm assuming She's going to sue them for every nickel she can get, but that's just money.
I like that she's putting on the brave face, but what does someone like her do after 40 years at the same station?
CHFI maybe?

Sue them?  For what, being bloodless dickheads?  She had a 40 year career, and they packaged her off, likely using the old 'We're going a different direction" bull-shit.  They don't want her, or her salary and benefits anymore, and are within their rights to legally toss her aside.  They'll all get the same crappy treatment one day.  End of an all-too-familiar story. 

Geez, you're a little angry eh? I'm well aware that they're bloodless dickheads. Do you know something we don't about her package? I'd be asking Lior Samfiru if it's adequate.
 

Instead of making it about "TALENT" vs the "CORP" - the conversation should be about "TALENT" being all about "TALENT".    Reverse it - No one would be mad at Ingrid if she decided to leave CHUM-FM to go somewhere else after 40 years?  No, we would all say "Go Girl".  The reality of having a performance based job is YOU are in CONTROL of your own destiny .  You are the one that sets what your TALENT is worth.  You build your brand.   If you are solely defined by "a shift" then you are a slave to that "shift" so you'd better make sure you have a deep connection with audience and an army of fans... otherwise you can be replaced.   The CORP is giving you a microphone, a pay-cheque, a stage, an opportunity - what EACH person does with it - is up to them.   CORPS are CORPS - they won't change no matter how much we complain.  They are driven by the bottomline - that's it, that's all.    There is a long list of "TALENT" that command more respect, pay and outside opportunities than other folks - It doesn't happen by accident and rarely by length of service - it's mostly because they are irreplaceable.

At what point, exactly, do people on this board get tired of all the vitriolic negativity they seem to perpetually live in based on their endless hate of today's society? They live blindly believing corporations are evil and employers owe them something beyond the next cheque? Are people that post here really this negative in real life or is it for the benefit of seeing their vitriol spew at nauseum post after post?

cGrant wrote:

 Are people that post here really this negative in real life or is it for the benefit of seeing their vitriol spew at nauseum post after post?  

If you see your shadow this morning will it signify six more weeks of this?
 

cGrant wrote:

At what point, exactly, do people on this board get tired of all the vitriolic negativity they seem to perpetually live in based on their endless hate of today's society? They live blindly believing corporations are evil and employers owe them something beyond the next cheque? Are people that post here really this negative in real life or is it for the benefit of seeing their vitriol spew at nauseum post after post?

Blah blah blah blah blah.  [Blah]

I will never sit back and allow this kind of crapish behavior and mistreatment of loyal employees to be seen as anywhere even close to being acceptable, normal or proper.  Why?  Because IT isn't.  It's theft.  Theft of talent and the positive results and profits accrued from the ongoing use of that individual's unique and dependable contributions.  It's dishonest.  Dishonest because it doesn't share in the long term benefits and goodwill provided for the company substantially through the efforts of that [former] employee.  It's narrow and small.  Narrow and small because it demonstrates a colossal disregard for any kind of plan beyond the here and now and because it's beneath the level of credibility and stature that anyone should expect of ANY company with any kind of a thought toward a strong foundation and a potentially successful future.

It pisses me off every time it happens and it demands to be seen and met with every drop of vitriol we can muster.  It begs a negative response which matches, at the very least, the negativity involved in removing your front line 'players' and replacing them with nothing more than a possibility.  Damn the torpedoes and the audience.  That they demonstrate NO love for those who stood them in such good stead for so long HAS to be faced with a hatred in kind as the nausea THEY create for so many great years of delivering the 'goods' is evil to its very core. 

You think that THAT is business do you little fella?  It is.  But it's BAD business.  Moral bankruptcy really.  That ain't the path to choose...or follow.  And I don't and won't.