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Reminder: This thing got Opie fired.
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Dude I thought that was Bubba Lard Sponge.
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Translation: ‘I’m a useless fat overrated fuck!’
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Brothaman fawkin' loved dookie humah. OPESTER, LOVE YA MISS YA!
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Probably blames it on Howard
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Roland's father was some show business executive with a retarded mongrel spic son incapable of doing anything but eating that third sandwich. He got Roland all of his jobs including the Sirius one. Roland was not an O&A fan and didn't even listen to the show. Roland cried multiple times when Opie or Anthony would goof on the "celebrity" guests. Roland cried to management over Opie hanging up on Kristen Bell. Proving he did not get the show at all.
Imagine working for O&A but not even listening to the show. And management fired people like Steve C but not Roland.
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...was his paycheck. Same thing that got Ant fired
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I’ve heard from Howard complaining regarding the hallway incident involving the cleaning lady, which definitely got the ball rolling, to a mass conspiracy orchestrated by Jim and Sam, none of which is the real reason which is
this. OnA were criminally overpaid for what they did. SiriusXM wanted them gone; they were just lucky that those two idiots gave them justifiable reasons.
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Yeah, he blamed it on Howard "lying about me fawkin' with him!". Prior, he had openly bragged about fawkin' with Howard. He once conned some poor cleaning wagie into helping him sneak into his office.
At any rate, he lied and said Hoo Hoo had been seething about him for years and just found an excuse to "make" Sirius axe him.
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Management didn't get Steve C fired - Opie did. Some of the famous firings:
1) Steve C was fired because Opie was salty that Steve wouldn't give away the content that he hosted on foundryradio.com. All of this was complicated by the fact that Steve worked on the site during his work day, so arguably it was XM content, since he was on XM's dime.
2) XM Radio wanted to fire Opie and Anthony over the "Homeless Charlie" stunt. Eric Logan saved their jobs.
3) Eric Logan wanted to fire Jim Norton are replace him with Bill Burr. Opie and Anthony wouldn't let him.
4) Danny got fired for bringing a porn star to an XM event. O&A probably could have saved him, but didn't make any effort
5) Ben Sparks was fired but I'm not aware of why
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Management fired the position of executive producer. Not just Steve C. You think Opie and Anthony didn't want an executive producer running the behind the scenes stuff? Management hated the show and tried to sabotage them right and left. Steve C was getting fired because management didn't want them having senior level staff. The whole argument over Foundry had nothing to do with Steve being fired.
O&A being popular saved their jobs. If they were not responsible for so many radio subs they would have been dumped in a second. E-Lo was just another corporate douche who had nothing to do with the show's success.
Eric Logan was supposedly a huge O&A fan but obviously never actually listened to the show. Like most of the corporate tools he would read a summary of the week and listen to a few bits but didn't actually care. He quit O&A to work for Oprah Winfrey which tells you all you need to know. Most of the senior people behind O&A were just radio goons and not O&A fans.
He was called up to management for that so that they could talk to him. He was fired because he acted like a retard in that meeting and put his feet up on the desk and deliberately did a huge *YAWN* like he was relaxing. And basically did not take the situation seriously. Word is that he acted out at Rockstar Games as well and behaved immaturely.
For assaulting a Stern fan during a walkover.
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Roland didn’t get me fawkin fired! Fawk! This is old news but I can’t really say much else! Sirius absolutely paid off my contract, the truth will come out some day.
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Oh fuck did he try to steal the new Aerosmith CD?
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That describes a lot of the people here, tbf.
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You can tell a lot of people here started listening after 2014 and only listen to curated bits. Full shows were like an entirely different listening experience. It was far more relaxed. Sometimes listening to like 'greatest hits' of O&A is overwhelming because the high pace just never stops. Ultimately I rarely listen to full shows and listen to fan made edits. But never having that perspective of listening to the full shows that had all that downtime definitely gives someone a different idea of what O&A really was.
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"Your position has been eliminated" is a way of firing someone without exposing yourself to a lawsuit. Back in the day, everyone was saying that Steve C died because of "failed gastric bypass surgery" and I was the lone person saying "Steve C killed himself because Opie got rid of him, Jim Norton was getting weirdly chummy with his wife, and Steve C couldn't find a decent job." (The thing that tipped me off that it was suicide was that he died on his wedding anniversary.)
XM was 100% ready to give them the boot, the only thing that saved them was that Logan worked out a compromise where they'd be suspended instead of fired.
I have no idea if he was a fan or if he cared, but there's no mistake that Logan presided over the best years of Opie and Anthony, during their entire run. He seemed to have a knack for radio; he saved O&A (see above) and replacing Jim Norton with Bill Burr would have improved the show dramatically. Norton is a one-trick-pony.
Agree with that.
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It was a way to control the O&A show more than anything. They could easily fire Steve C without a lawsuit. They fired lots of O&A staffers including eventually both Opie and Anthony. Most of these guys had contracts with no protections and all sorts of weird clauses in them. Remember when Steve C took all Mondays off? Or when management told Steve C that they were no longer recognizing his 30 days of vacation he was contractually owed? That had nothing to do with either O&A. It was just management hating that they had to deal with "shock jocks".
Watch the clip below where Steve C even says "It was not Opie. It was not Anthony. It was just the bosses". The same bosses that fired both Anthony and then Opie without either of them being able to fight for their jobs. No chance Opie could have saved Steve C's job. Management did a lot of stuff like this from pretty much day one until the show finally imploded.
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Corporations are shitty. I've been laid off more times than about 99.9% of the population. I've been laid off eight times. Here was one of them:
About three years ago, I had a recruiter reach out to me about a job. He was trying to get me to propose a salary of $250K a year. I refused to take the bait - the job should have paid about $150K and I thought the recruiter was being greedy.
So we did all the negotiations, and when the dust settled, they hired me at $200K. I was the one who encouraged the employer to pay me less. I did this on purpose; I figured that if I was making $250K there would be a giant target on my back because of my salary.
About eighteen months later, I was unceremoniously laid off.
One of my coworkers was fired about six months earlier than that. I chatted with him about it, and he told me that:
1) I was a "Dead Man Walking" as soon as I accepted the role. Basically my employer had signed a contract and they didn't have anyone to do the work, so they were prepared to throw a quarter of a million dollars at the first person who showed up (me.)
2) As soon as I started, they were looking to replace me with someone cheaper.
3) By the time that I was laid off, they'd found three people to replace my role. Two out of three of them worked in the 3rd world for peanuts. One of them worked in the U.S., but was hired part time to basically manage the other two.
So they'd managed to take one person making $200K (me) and replace them with three people, all for less money.
Globalism is a bitch.
About three years ago, I had a recruiter reach out to me about a job. He was trying to get me to propose a salary of $250K a year. I refused to take the bait - the job should have paid about $150K and I thought the recruiter was being greedy.
So we did all the negotiations, and when the dust settled, they hired me at $200K. I was the one who encouraged the employer to pay me less. I did this on purpose; I figured that if I was making $250K there would be a giant target on my back because of my salary.
About eighteen months later, I was unceremoniously laid off.
One of my coworkers was fired about six months earlier than that. I chatted with him about it, and he told me that:
1) I was a "Dead Man Walking" as soon as I accepted the role. Basically my employer had signed a contract and they didn't have anyone to do the work, so they were prepared to throw a quarter of a million dollars at the first person who showed up (me.)
2) As soon as I started, they were looking to replace me with someone cheaper.
3) By the time that I was laid off, they'd found three people to replace my role. Two out of three of them worked in the 3rd world for peanuts. One of them worked in the U.S., but was hired part time to basically manage the other two.
So they'd managed to take one person making $200K (me) and replace them with three people, all for less money.
Globalism is a bitch.