Nearly every radio station owner/GM that I have ever worked for has been abusive to his/her staff. It's just that some of them are still alive, and still managing (or destroying!) the station(s) at which I worked for them.
Richard "Dick" Bennett, ex of WHDM, is deceased, so no worries there. The problem with him is that he was 90 years old at the time that I worked for him (or so it seemed) and had basically no use for anyone under, say, 50. I was 27 at the time. Worse yet is that all the office staff chain-smoked, so an oxygen mask would have come in handy! (His wife sold the station a few years later, so I took that as proof that he had died.)
"Big Daddy Bobbaloo," ex of the old WDXN, once called a "mandatory" meeting in which he basically bitched at his entire staff for what seemed like two solid hours! And every sentence went something like this: "If you don't like this, GET OUT! If you don't like that, GET OUT!" And on and on it went for about two hours! (Supposedly his own daughter did not let him walk her down the aisle at her wedding.)
Alice Jackson, ex of WIZO, and "Corky" Albright of WQSV never even filed paperwork on me, so it was like I never worked at either place. :
Jackson was just simply incompetent, but (not so) Albright bitched at me up one side and down the other, so I quit!
But the worst by far is Paul Tinkle of Thunderbolt. He is every bit as bad as they said in that thread that I linked above, and then some. I knew people who would not work there because of him! I managed to last slightly over a year before I, too, had had enough of him. During the time that I was there, the entire airstaff (with one exception) turned over. He is an nth degree perfectionist and would go ballistic if the least little thing went wrong! He would be on the phone within nanoseconds if the automation on the FM station screwed up and he heard it. He could hear "pops" and "clicks" on carts, turntables, whatever, that no one else could hear! :
