radio ptsd
no we're broken dude
I've been out of radio for like six years or more.
When a station goes off the air and I'm in a car, I reach for my phone, because I'm going to call someone.
Whatever city, whatever station, I'm gonna call someone....
I never have any fucking clue who I'm calling of course. I look at my phone in my hand and just say in my head "you fucking idiot, you do not work in radio anymore."
This happens a lot at my grocery store I work at. The Store’s radio network does this really annoying thing where we play covid announcements in the middle of songs. I’m just reaching for my phone trying to figure out who to call and remind them how to do a segue.
Right I don’t work in radio anymore and the music in the store isn’t my problem.
But when you spent 20 years baby sitting a radio station or programming, your brain gets hard wired to hear or worry about certain things. I notice the rotation patterns of certain songs in the store, the volume, the way they drop covid messages in the middle of the songs… Like fuck could you just put them between the songs? It’s not hard, I know how to do it… And I’m not talking about staff paging each other, I’m talking about pre-recorded announcements just showing up 2 minutes into a song and then the song coming back on. It’s insane that I care and it’s insane that I still after over a year notice it.
I still reach for my phone. PTSD man, it's a thing.
#radiodays #musicsnob #ptsd