Holding out for a Hero

Ok, this will mean nothing to most of you but it needs doing.

When you listen to your radio, do you ever think beyond the songs and presenters? Ever stop to think, wow, how do all of the songs, ads, talky bits and news all come together so smoothly? What clever people those radio chaps are! If you don't, you should .. and if you do you probably think its some very talented engineer or presenter that pushes lots of buttons and stuff. Well, in part that may be true but a good half of it is done by a team of behind the scenes people who plot everything in place. For GMG radio we have an inventory team . or traffic as they are oft called. They plot the airtime traffic ensuring that all our lovely paying clients get their ads on air. And they work bloody hard. And usually everyone who feeds them info lets them down, causing more work that just isn't necessary. And on top of that they are running two separate systems right now for reason that I cant divulge or Gav might take me out the fire escape and bludgeon me to death with Dave Wheadons spikey hair.

Now, our sales team are treated with bigger kid gloves than I can even begin to describe .. they are precious little flowers, under a lot of stress to hit targets ..and frankly some of them get away with murder, but that's not for here. So to keep them all happy and striving to give proper copy instructions, theyt are incentivised with wine and money and things to try and become the 'Traffic Hero' - given to the helpful nice people who do their jobs properly. Back at ntl, Deb & I regularly rolled our eyes at the notion of incentivising somebody to just do their job correctly .. incentivise them to over deliver maybe, but just for turning up and doing what contractually they are obliged to? Ridiculous, surely? But nonetheless, every week around this time on a friday we get a little mail telling us to go to an intranet site and see who has won. Well, for one week only, I would like to have Queenies Hero of the Week .... and the award goes to ... can you really not see where I was going with this? ........ come on ...... just guess ........
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THE GMG RADIO TRAFFIC TEAM!
Gav, Kat, Dave, Danni, Karen & Ang (who is away this week but that doesn't mean she is any less deserving of the award) and that other bird who is training them who I know not the name of.
I salute you!