[SBE] Dwindling numbers of engineers

[Jeff Carter]

I think we are talking about the same guys, the cutthroats.   I will
stipulate that some number among them are not yet of retirement age,
but I think we agree on the concept.  They are out there, and they've
killed Broadcast Engineering almost entirely for newcomers and
eventually for everybody else, too.  Professionals do not do this,
because they know it's long-term unjustifiable.

You put it better than I did about who all is being hurt in the
process, as usual.

Some say it was the NAB, some blame the government, but it seems to me
that Broadcast Engineering was delegitimized in the deregulation
fever.  Deregulation created the AV Janitor, the reductio ad absurdum
that unchecked market forces always give us in the end when the
consumer isn't smart enough or doesn't care enough to pay attention.
There's nothing we can do about it as individuals, except to refuse to
participate.

Jeff

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net> wrote:

>  I would disagree.

>

>  Methinks it's not the retirees, but the somewhat less than competent

>  ( SBE certified, or not ) assistant engineers let go by mergers, and the like

>  who took advantage of economies of scale, and cut staffing.

>

>  Most of those guys, being well below legal retirement age, will cut your

>  throat in a heartbeat, and feel justified because they are doing it

>  for groceries.

>  Ultimately, they hurt all of us, themselves, AND the client stations

>  in the process, but they are satisfied with the $10/hr or so they manage

>  to cheat you out of.