I heard that on the radio and I did wonder why she didn’t get it done in their summer break, they’ve only been back on a few weeks.
Hopefully she won’t be off air for long.
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I’d rather not use my annual leave for a medical procedure. That’s what sick leave is for.
Surgery is also not necessarily something easily planned. I would guess this has also been a long-standing issue with a number of non-surgical strategies trialled first. When you add on surgery wait times and pain tolerances, you take the surgery when you can get it.
As for ordinary workers, I agree with you.
But with the $$$$ Jonesy and Amanda are on, if I was in charge at WS, i would be asking Qs like why now?
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If they are employed on standard employment contracts, they are ordinary workers.
That means they (like all of us) are legally entitled to take personal leave for illness - and you can’t have any performance management action against someone for exercising a protected right.
Management might wonder - but they probably know the full story that we don’t and could have even been pushing for the surgery to take place sooner and during survey. You also have to think about how as an employer you could inadvertently make the condition worse.
From an outsider perspective, it seems ARN really cares about it’s on air talent - if I recall correctly, it delayed the start of Jase and Lauren to give Jase time to grieve the passing of his Dad.
But I do get it - it would be a challenge to overcome.
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Legal entitlements are legal entitlements, doesn’t matter what your wage is.
I’d say now was the best time for all interests, Amanda, ARN & the doctors.
Not sure why Jonesy is taking a week off, Amanda probably wont be back in a week but may do the show from home if it went well & she’s out of hospital?
It’s the last 2 weeks of survey & 1 week probably will make very little difference to the ratings, even if it does ARN will be okay with a short temporary drop until next survey. There’s a 2 week survey break over Easter period too, so essentially that’ll give Amanda 1 week in hospital & 3 weeks recovery before next survey starts.
Not sure if Jonesy & Amanda have it in their contract, (they might but its a case by case, time by time decision), but down the hall in the KIIS studio Kyle & Jackie have it in their contracts that if one is off sick or doesn’t work a shift for whatever reason, the other one doesn’t have to either, & I believe that even back when they were at SCA, Kyle has said if/when Jackie wants to call it quits on the show, he’s out too, he won’t do a show without her, I think it goes the other way too, Jackie wont do a show without Kyle.
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I’m not questioning the entitlement, only the timing.
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Lucky for all concerned that you are not in charge at WS 
WSFM line up this week only
6-9am Ugly Phil
9am-1pm Bill Weaver
1-2pm Totally 80s
2-6pm Steve Fitton
6-7pm JAMnation
7-8pm Christian O Connell show
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On Monday night at around 18:30, Cruise 1323 was broadcasting some sports show from 1629 SEN SA. I tried to see if’s listed on the Cruise 1323 website, but their alleged “program guide” is beyond useless. Unfortunately I was in the ex’s car at the time, and she doesn’t have a dashcam, so I don’t have an audio recording and I didn’t have my mobile on me.
Hopefully it’s just a one-off where a wrong feed was picked up or something. Will listen again tonight and report back.
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No, it’s not a one-off. This new arrangement with SEN has commenced as of this AFL season.
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I can see this doing about as well as the last time SEN was on 1323. Especially with Five AA having a very successful and long running drivetime sports show on 1395 in the same timeslot.
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The only person who is going to listen to that sports show on cruise is Craig Hutchinson
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WSFM line up this week
6-9am Ugly Phil
9am-1pm Ryan
1-2pm Totally 80s with Mike Byrne
2-6pm Bill Weaver
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Who is Ryan? Where is he from?
He is Jonesy and Amanda’s Panel Operator.
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Ex-KIIS 1065, The Edge and New Fm. Great announcer!
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He does Sunday afternoons on WSFM.
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WSFM will play all 80s from midnight tonight up to Monday night.
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I’ve heard The Way You Make Me Feel on both (WSFM) FM and DAB recently and it sounds terrible. It’s almost tinny.
Are there any others?
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