WFMU: Aerial View: Playlist from September 2, 2014

Aerial View: Playlist from September 2, 2014

Aerial View was WFMU’s first regularly-scheduled phone-in talk show. Hosted by Chris T. and on the air since 1989, the show features topical conversation, interviews and many trips down the rabbit hole. Until further notice, Aerial View is only available as a podcast, available every Tuesday morning. Subscribe to the newsletter “See You Next Tuesday!” and find tons of archives at aerialview.me. (Visit homepage.)

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September 2, 2014: The Working Life
Yesterday was Labor Day. Hopefully, you had the day off. Let me back up a step: hopefully, you have a job and you got the day off. I was off. Even though I mostly sat indoors working on one computer maintenance project or another, it was still glorious.

I've held many jobs over the years, everything from department store stock boy to assistant baker to factory worker to inbound and outbound telemarketing rep. to catalog director to radio station operations director to pro audio salesman to audio engineer. It's been a strange path to my current job: talk show host and DJ. Along the way I managed to join two unions. Even though I no longer pay dues I like to think of myself as a member-in-good-standing because I appreciate the Labor movement and all it's brought us, even those of us who would never join a union and don't see a need for them.

Tonight, I'd like to hear your stories about the best and worst gigs you've had and what you've learned on the job. Other things to discuss:

How do you prepare for your work day?
Living on unemployment.
The job search.
Co-worker Conflict.
Horrible Bosses.
The Day I Got Fired.
Weekend Warrior.
Public Employees: Scum of the Earth?
I don't like Mondays: the worst day of the week at work.
Scary Co-workers: Are you armed?
Slacking on the Job.
Changing Careers.
Romance in the Workplace.
Watercooler Gossip.
When Do You Know It's Time to Go?
LinkedIn, Monster.com, Career Builder & other job search sites.
Call 201-209-WFMU and let's get to work!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Booker T. & the Chris T. MGs	Working In The Aerial View Coalmine

Listener comments!
	6:07pm Marcel M: Hello hello!
	6:13pm Marcel M: Oh man... I snuck into Hollywood Forever in the middle of the night when I visited LA, was one of the most fun things I've done. What a cool name... you're in Hollywood forever now, you're dead!!!
	6:15pm Karen in Sleepy Hollow: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery! I'm a tour guide there. Love that place.
	6:16pm dale: one of my worst summer jobs was the night shift loading refrigerated semis at an ice cream plant. you packed the truck as tightly as possible as the boxes came into the reefer by conveyer - you wore a full snowsuit with hood and gloves and then came out to sit on the 80 degree loading dock waiting for the next truck and you sweated like a pig. your nitelife was shot and you slept all day. i lasted three days.
	6:16pm Marcel M: They are only collectible because they are old and people want to pretend to have quality vintage gear.... You said it Chris they sucked then and suck now!!!!
	6:19pm Karen in Sleepy Hollow: Leaving $ is for good luck. We use the $ for restoration work around the cemetery.
	6:20pm dale: afl/cio dude. all i really know
	6:21pm dale: @karen - did they officially stop calling it north tarrytown? was a good salvay or goodwill (i forget) there in the 80s
	6:22pm dale: is eve arden buried there?
	6:31pm Karen in Sleepy Hollow: The name change to Sleepy Hollow was voted in back in 1996.
	6:32pm Karen in Sleepy Hollow: Elizabeth Arden is buried under her real name, Elizabeth Graham.
	6:41pm e: Guitar center is still on 22 sam ash is across highway.
	6:42pm steve: Chris i loved the story in LCD about when you worked at the factory making relays. worst job i had was as an assistant to a carpet installer until i was fired after a few weeks for being terrible.
	6:50pm dale: woulda' thought short for elijah - more religious that way.
	6:53pm JakeGould: WCBS-FM (back in the day) was the radio station of work back in the day.
	6:53pm Andrew Waterloo: I had a job where the people on the factory floor listened to a particular radio station that seemed to be playing 1 of 5 songs every time I walked into that room.
	6:54pm Andrew Waterloo: Also, I was once approached for a management job at relay/magnetics company
	6:55pm dale: cbs was also the official station of every greek diner and pizza place in the 80s. harry harrison was everywhere.
	6:55pm steve: its in the LCD book!
	6:55pm JakeGould: Bill Lee is still around. I actually work in the building where WCBS is nowadays.
	6:55pm alberto: it seems to me that working for a living used to be a source of pride in honing a skill only those in the trade could master. now, in the midst of the information age, trade secrets are becoming a thing of the past and the economy has forced most people with half a brain to do certain things they need done themselves. this has caused at lot of amatuer repairs and restorations that are just not done right, while putting people out of work. technology has turned a corner, and it is only the beginning. with all the smart pill bottle caps, health bracelets, refrigerators, etc., reminding us all the time, we are destined to become a bunch of zombies doing everything computers tell us to do. technology should do what we tell it to do, not the other way around. the "smarter" we make these things the dumber we become.
	6:58pm JakeGould: I work with computers nowadays. It’s it’s own hell. I mean my mark of success is spending as much time as possible in a dark room staring at a glowing screen? What am I? A mushroom?

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Booker T. & the Chris T. MGs	Working In The Aerial View Coalmine

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Listener comments!
	6:07pm Marcel M: Hello hello!
	6:13pm Marcel M: Oh man... I snuck into Hollywood Forever in the middle of the night when I visited LA, was one of the most fun things I've done. What a cool name... you're in Hollywood forever now, you're dead!!!
	6:15pm Karen in Sleepy Hollow: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery! I'm a tour guide there. Love that place.
	6:16pm dale: one of my worst summer jobs was the night shift loading refrigerated semis at an ice cream plant. you packed the truck as tightly as possible as the boxes came into the reefer by conveyer - you wore a full snowsuit with hood and gloves and then came out to sit on the 80 degree loading dock waiting for the next truck and you sweated like a pig. your nitelife was shot and you slept all day. i lasted three days.
	6:16pm Marcel M: They are only collectible because they are old and people want to pretend to have quality vintage gear.... You said it Chris they sucked then and suck now!!!!
	6:19pm Karen in Sleepy Hollow: Leaving $ is for good luck. We use the $ for restoration work around the cemetery.
	6:20pm dale: afl/cio dude. all i really know
	6:21pm dale: @karen - did they officially stop calling it north tarrytown? was a good salvay or goodwill (i forget) there in the 80s
	6:22pm dale: is eve arden buried there?
	6:31pm Karen in Sleepy Hollow: The name change to Sleepy Hollow was voted in back in 1996.
	6:32pm Karen in Sleepy Hollow: Elizabeth Arden is buried under her real name, Elizabeth Graham.
	6:41pm e: Guitar center is still on 22 sam ash is across highway.
	6:42pm steve: Chris i loved the story in LCD about when you worked at the factory making relays. worst job i had was as an assistant to a carpet installer until i was fired after a few weeks for being terrible.
	6:50pm dale: woulda' thought short for elijah - more religious that way.
	6:53pm JakeGould: WCBS-FM (back in the day) was the radio station of work back in the day.
	6:53pm Andrew Waterloo: I had a job where the people on the factory floor listened to a particular radio station that seemed to be playing 1 of 5 songs every time I walked into that room.
	6:54pm Andrew Waterloo: Also, I was once approached for a management job at relay/magnetics company
	6:55pm dale: cbs was also the official station of every greek diner and pizza place in the 80s. harry harrison was everywhere.
	6:55pm steve: its in the LCD book!
	6:55pm JakeGould: Bill Lee is still around. I actually work in the building where WCBS is nowadays.
	6:55pm alberto: it seems to me that working for a living used to be a source of pride in honing a skill only those in the trade could master. now, in the midst of the information age, trade secrets are becoming a thing of the past and the economy has forced most people with half a brain to do certain things they need done themselves. this has caused at lot of amatuer repairs and restorations that are just not done right, while putting people out of work. technology has turned a corner, and it is only the beginning. with all the smart pill bottle caps, health bracelets, refrigerators, etc., reminding us all the time, we are destined to become a bunch of zombies doing everything computers tell us to do. technology should do what we tell it to do, not the other way around. the "smarter" we make these things the dumber we become.
	6:58pm JakeGould: I work with computers nowadays. It’s it’s own hell. I mean my mark of success is spending as much time as possible in a dark room staring at a glowing screen? What am I? A mushroom?

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