[SBE] Can Your Manager Tell Ysbeou What You Do For A living?

[Sam Garfield]

I have ofter told my fellow Engineers, that the test of a good General 
Manager is to ask him for directions to the transmitter site.

As often said, being in the communications business, we don't communicate.

The Station Engineer has enough on his mind, let alone doing Public 
Relations with his Boss and Peers.

May I suggest that SBE National assist us in promoting our profession to 
Ownership & General Managers. If your read the SBE By-Laws, it certainly 
gives you that impression that the SBE National has that charge.
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BY-LAWS of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, Inc. (as amended October 
2004)
ARTICLE I. NAME AND PURPOSES - *(as amended October 2004)*
Section 2. Purposes. The purposes for which the corporation is organized 
are as follows:*
    (a) The diffusion and increase of knowledge about broadcast 
engineering, and the promotion and advancement of this profession and 
its companion fields for both theoretical and practical applications 
necessary to advance the art.
    (b) The establishment of professional education, training and 
competence for persons engaged in the profession of broadcast 
engineering and its allied fields; and to afford professional 
recognition to its practitioners signifying the achievement of these 
standards.
    (c) The stimulation of interest in broadcast engineering and its 
allied fields to sustain the profession, encouragement of the interplay 
and intercourse of ideas to advance the art, and the promotion and 
maintenance of the highest professional standards among its members to 
allow them to conduct their professional actions in the scale of 
exemplary ethical standards.
    (d) *The creation of working alliances and meeting of minds with all 
elements of the broadcast and communications industry*, including the 
FCC and the ultimate recipient of that which we practice, the viewers 
and listeners.

Perhaps a mailing to the Ownership, General Managers that provide 
insight into who we are and what we do for a living may be the first 
step in getting the point across that we are an asset, not a liability.

Sam