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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
17. How did you loose your job with Howard Stern? Discuss your time there.
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First off I have to preface this by saying I didn't work specifically for the Howard Stern Show. I was employed by what was then K-Rock in New York. My internship in college was at K-Rock/Z-Rock and they actually offered me the gig of van driver. Now I know it's a pretty cheesey jo but I knew I could use it for it's perks and I did. You'd be amazed at what you can get for a pair of Grateful Dead or Bruce Springsteen tickets. Apparently I did a very good job at just being a van driver (maybe I was knowledgable with hand signals) so they offerred me a full time promotion assistant job. I jumped at it because radio is where I wanted to be. At the time The Howard Stern Show was broadcast from our office. So I got to work with the team quite often on appearances and live broadcasts and the TV show. It became a pretty nice gig. The crew was great and it really was a blast.
All the while I was doing this I still would drive the van on occassion when there was an event with one of the Stern show cast members. I would go with them wherever it was we were going. So as a result there would be some pretty late nights and I would drive the van home. One of these events was on St Patrick's Day in Manhattan. Being 25% Irish (we blame my mother) I of course had to enjoy the celebrations. Many a beer later I decided it would be wise to drive home. Yes I know it's stupid but I never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed. I made it home safely and dragged myself to bed. About an hour later my girlfriend at the time calls me and asks me to pick her up. Since my car is back in the city I drag myself into the van and head over to Jersey (New) to pick her up. One DWI checkpoit later and not enough shirts to make the cops happy I find myself locked up to a chair in the Oradell NJ police station. The resulting insurance issues and missing of the next days event didn't go over very well. Next thing you know I was out of radio and working full time for the audiotext company that was to become the company that I am with today.
Hard to learn a lesson when things actually work out so well.
On a side note, K-Rock was the only company to pass me up for a promotion because I was white. Discrimination of any color, race, religion or anything just sucks.