#music radio
Caller: Did I win? Am I going to Lady Gaga?
Me: No, this is the office line. If you want to call in to the show playing now that’s a different number, I can give it to you–
Caller: oh no, that’s no good I’m driving.
Me: MA'AM PLEASE PULL OVER how did you get this number? It’s not the one they say on air.
Caller: oh I googled you
Me: while driving??
Caller: what’s wrong with that?
Early night vale cecilos was so funny. Imagine being Carlos. You move to a new town and turn on the local radio station and you just hear the host talking about how he wants you carnally.
That’s just how radio is. Our golden boy DJ got into multiple fights and eventually broke up with his girlfriend because of exactly this, also he kept saying super personal details of their life on air. Stuff like her menstural cycle, whether they would ever get married/have kids, his family’s opinion of her. Dick move on the part of an otherwise nice guy, I tell you it was redonk awkward having the desk directly outside of the studio because he’d do the show and walk out and I’d be there, suddenly knowing a lot more about his love life than I ever wanted to know, and having to be professional afterwards.
Wow, y'all really like the dumbasses that call the radio huh? There’s more. Kee-riste there are more.
The lady who was OUTRAGED that we dared to refer to the EverGiven by female pronouns. In spite of my assuring her that the feminine is very much still in use for boats, she still screamed “I AM NOT AN OBJECT!” and slammed down the phone.
Listener won tickets to a show and claimed we never had them waiting for her at will call, so now she wants Wanda Sykes tix to replace them. There are so many things wrong with this I have a list:
1. The show she didn’t get was in 2019
2. She was NOT ACTUALLY one of the winners
3. She wanted to talk to a DJ who doesn’t work here anymore
4. And when he did it wasn’t for that station she won it from
5. We are not connected to the Wanda Sykes show at all
6. This doesn’t work like that? Nothing works like that???
7. The 2019 show was cancelled anyway so wtf she talking about, will call had nothing for anyone.
So she was claiming we “owe” her an event. Real curious what she planned to do about this. Demand a refund for free tickets she didn’t win for and event that didn’t happen? Take her business elsewhere? It’s the radio, dumbass.
Job Fair Joan: she showed up to the job fair we were hosting, and was kicked out for stealing all the pens. Apparently when she had asked if she could have one (we had a bunch of station swag lying around) she interpreted “sure help yourself” to mean “take all of them.” When she demanded the name of the guard who was showing her out he sarcastically said “I’m Santa Claus.”
So Monday morning she calls the station, demanding to speak to the owner to complain that Santa Claus had wrongfully kicked her out of the job fair.
This was the second job fair this had happened. With her. She got kicked out for stealing twice and demanded an apology from the owner of the radio station
Listener: do you take song requests
Me: no
Listener: ok can you play Counting Stars?
Me: no we don’t take song requests
Listener: ok could you play Justin Bieber?
Me: …we STILL don’t take requests
Listener: I wanna talk to your manager
(five minutes later)
Listener: can you play Soul Sister
Me: no as I explained earlier we don’t take requests
Listener: no that wasn’t me. Can you play Soul Sister
Me: no we don’t take requests
Listener: I want to talk to your manager
Me: you know I can see it’s your number on the caller ID right
Listener: YOU’RE STALKING ME?
Me: stop calling.
