No More SKY 104

Today was my last day with this company. After nine and a half years I have called it quits. It was time for me and my family to move on.

I'm not sure what I was expecting but other than a few kind words from my replacement, I had no other farewells. I did receive a gift, however, of my infamous cowbell.

The cowbell goes back to when I first came to work in Clayton. The morale of the staff was horrible. People keeping their doors to their offices shut all the time, arguments and just plain piss poor attitudes. Well it didn't take me long to figure out working in a place with low morale was something that I was not going to be able to do so I decided to do something about it.

I purchased the cowbell from a local feed and seed store. I brought the bell into the station and began ringing it up and down the hallway. It didn't take long for the staff to come out of their offices to see what all the racket was about. I told the staff that it was the 'good news' bell and when something good happened, they had to ring the bell. I explained that the bell was to be rung when our news person broke a big story, the morning man had a great show or received a comliment from a listener or a member of the sales staff made a sale.

I believe for the first two or three months no one rang the bell but me. But everytime I rang the bell everyone came to see what the good news was. Eventually everyone would ring the bell from time to time. And everytime someone rang the bell, everyone came out of their offices. So that's the story of my cowbell.

The staff took the bell and had it painted as my going away gift. Now this is something that will stay with me forever and is probable one of the nicer things the staff could have done.