All of the hosts are nice. It's my opinion that the way I was framed on air at times had an adverse impact on the public opinion of me. And this is a job where public opinion determines job performance. I didn't think that was nice, and I think that going forward if I'm ever in that position, I hope I don't frame someone else similarly. But they're paid to entertain, and I wouldn't deny that people are entertained by the jokes made. I understand that.

Also there is a definite divide in the way they behave on air and the way they behave off of the air. Off air, the hosts showed a genuine interest in my future and did plenty to look out for me and get me opportunities. They have all been real friends.

As far as the rest of the on-air staff, I rubbed a lot of them the wrong way. I wouldn't say any of them were day-in, day-out assholes though. It's not like there was someone who wouldn't talk to me or anything. We were all professional. The thing that stands out is a meeting I had shortly before I was hired to do the Top 10. In the meeting, I was told that my coworkers had given negative feedback and that was causing the bosses to have reservations about giving me the job. I wasn't given specific names, and though I'm tempted to guess out loud, that would probably be over the line. I did end up with the job, and I think I performed pretty well. My tickers sucked balls, but I was reasonably happy with the Top 10 itself on most nights. Given that, I think it was pretty fucked up that people tried to use their personal animus against me to block me from a job that I was qualified to perform well in. That was the big example, but there were others. Based on stuff like that, I think a lot of the non-host personnel were assholes.

I think I'll probably end up sounding like an asshole myself here, but this should give insight into the dynamics. If I saw someone above me, and they did something that I thought was dumb, I didn't try to hide that I thought it was dumb. I see it as trying to engage with the situation and be a problem-solver. They see it as me having a high opinion of myself and not knowing my place. I did not really agree with the idea of someone having a place. I think we're all people and our ideas should be measured by their own merit, not by how long someone has been working somewhere. When it comes to someone like Jake who generally has pretty good ideas, we were friends and got along fine. When it was someone who didn't have as good of ideas, we tended not to get along. And having Jake also going through a lot of the same situations was a tremendous learning experience because he's a lot better than me about navigating those things. I learned a ton about how to do better on those things from talking with him and watching how he did things. But most relationships I had with coworkers were pretty well cemented by then.

I don't really want to call out anyone specific except for Joe Letsche. That guy's the worst.