Land Of 1000 Dunces

[Radknowski]

Debaser wrote:

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"Right you are, Studio 20. But I can guarantee you there wouldn't be very many
general managers who would feel the same way about Glen... nor any sales managers who would know him for anything else besides the guy who could be counted on to show up and work at remotes AND NOT EXPECT TO BE PAID. And certainly no owner/CEO or CFO would know him as more than a a name on a piece of paper that had numbers at the bottom of it."
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I did not wish to alter the thread below nor detract from the tributes offered. I will only add that Debaser's commentary is sadly true.

A few weeks ago, Mark Giardina made a similar point regarding a few insipid GMs he had the pleasure of working for. From the feckless Arthur Carlson types to the men (and women) who might have made Stalin look compassionate, many of us have had similar experiences in our careers.

I could name names, but what good would it serve. Anybody who's worked in the business for any length of time would easily recognize the self-centered, egomaniacal, misanthropic jerks whose bloated expense accounts, tradeouts, sexual harrassment and blatant disregard for subordinates and co-workers made a lasting impressions on us.

Perhaps it taught many of us how not to comport ourselves.</font>

 

[Debaser]

I was wondering what happened to your response, which I thought could be the starting point for a new thread. I guess great minds really so think alike ;-))

I worked for a guy in Buffalo once who called his air staff "pieces of meat" to be hung up on hooks, taken down and thrown out at the whim of the vastly superior business and sales departments.

One of the highlights of MY career, I'll tell ya.

 

[Element9]

>
> I worked for a guy in Buffalo once who called his air staff
> "pieces of meat" to be hung up on hooks, taken down and
> thrown out at the whim of the vastly superior business and
> sales departments.
>
> One of the highlights of MY career, I'll tell ya.
>
A friend of mine tells me he once worked for a GM who was fond of telling his air staff, "I could train chimps to be jocks and they'd probably do a better job..." One of the weekend jocks at a staff meeting blurted, "You seemed to have done a good job with your salesmen." Large guffaws followed. The GM was not amused. Within a month, the weekend guy was fired by the PD for some inconsequential format violation.

And there's a Buffalo GM who insists that individuals on his airstaff never, ever, leave the studio during their airshifts. He's known to walk the halls to find out who's having too much of a good time at work. This guy also mandates that all doors be left open, so he can hear what (and presumably "who") people are talking about.

Each one of these stories would make a good episode of Dilbert.