The Infinite Dial

Each week (pretty much), I send out an email to the many thousands of you that subscribe to our email list that highlights some of the things we have been talking about here on The Infinite Dial. Because these emails come directly from me (and not from a marketing bot), I get every bounceback, every out-of-office notification and every piece of fan (or hate!) mail. This week, I got something else--an alarming number of automated "...is no longer with the company" messages.

Losing your job is traumatic. Behind every "great opportunity" and "exciting next chapter" in the press release, lie the weeks, months and possibly years of time spent coping with financial and emotional distress.

I have nothing to say here about radio's continued "right-sizing." Nothing I write here will do much, really, as therapeutic as it might be to vent. If you want to vent, however, do me a favor: take ten minutes of your day, right now if possible, and use that energy to call someone you know that has lost his or her job. Just say hi. Now's a good time.

Cheers. Hope to see you next week at the NAB.