Reorg, reorg, reorg....

Tough times call for desperate measures. The Commercial Production Department at my TV Station, of which I was a part was just effectively dissolved and dispersed. I will go to the Promotions-Community Services Department. I will switch supervisors and even move my desk up. I will shoot and edit Promotions-Community Services projects only. My other colleagues in commercial production, Michael the shooter, Gary the coordinator and Dave the editor will become a part of the Sales Department. They will answer directly to Sales and move to the Sales floor. This is particularly painful because Sales tends to be abusive of us as a resource, always assuming that they are more important that you because they bring in the money. They also never seem to manage their own deadlines and commitments and they are constantly asking you to drop everything you are doing and do a project for them because they will loose a sale if you don't! We've always had the buffer of not being directly under their control and now the buffer is gone! So to be honest my colleagues have it worse than me. But my move is not totally horrible. I like the people I will be working with and get along with all of them fine so really it's probably a good move for me in the long run. I just fear all change and always have! I’m just very thankful at the moment to have a job with the state of the economy as it is so I’m going to move forward and be positive. I’m going to embrace my new department and put on a happy face.

So that’s that! I guess I should count myself lucky to only have gone through one reorg in my 9 years at the station. Can’t say it won’t be the last the way things are going. I think this is going to be a tough year for the TV industry. But my trust and hope is in the Lord. He is the One who preserves me and my little family.

Nate