The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.
Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.
We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.
What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
We didn't have lawyers and accountants. No one was watching out for our money. We'd go to the office and get money and go on our way. I was 19-20 years old then. I was stupid. I didn't know any better. We weren't getting our fair share of the money. That happens to young musicians all the time. It makes me mad when I think how stupid we were.
I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.
And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions.
We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid.
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