Psycho-paths Running Houston Radio

[FilioScotia]

Don't laugh. It's true. Not all psycho-paths are criminals. Psycho-paths are found in all areas of society.  Most of us have worked under psycho-pathic bosses at one place or another, and they all have one thing in common. They don't give a damn about anything but their own advancement, and they don't care what they have to do or who they have to screw over to make it up the ladder.

They have no empathy for others. They want power for its own sake, and for the fun of using it over those under them.

Check out this very enlightening story I found on CNN's website.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/19/business/psychopath-boss/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Sound like someone you know?  I recognize several bosses I worked for at KTRH.

[Scout]

I worked for a guy who falls into this category; proving that small town family-owned stations that be as much of a living hell as a corporate overlord. 

[mrbeasley]

Had a GM at a station in the company where I worked who fit into this category almost to the letter.  At the time, he was a work-in-progress.  Within three years he had utterly destroyed the morale, comraderie and profitability of a once proud and somewhat profitable station to the point that the owners had to sell out.  The station was never the same after that and has never been a player since.  I think a decision by a similar personality at the top level had something to do with his being hired in the first place.  Needless to say, the other comany didn't keep him around. 

[FilioScotia]

Psychopathic bosses are their own worst enemy. They may make it to the top, but no one gives a damn when they fall all the way to the bottom. And sooner or later, they will fall.

There's truth in that old song:

Once I built a railroad,
made it run, made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad, now it's done,
brother can you spare a dime.

Say don't you remember, you called me Al
It was Al all the time
Say don't you remember, I was your pal
brother can you spare a dime?

[TheSpinMan]

I'm getting tired of all these "Michael Barry" threads.....

[FilioScotia]

***What a bitter man you are FilioScotia - I feel sad for you.***

Bitter?  If you're serious, where in the world did you get that idea?

You don't have to be bitter to be able to look back in perfect 20-20 hindsight and see bad managers for the A-holes they were.

I'm retired now, and I love it, but I do miss all the great people I worked with and under over all those years. I was truly blessed to be able to spend my entire working life doing something I love, and have the privilege of working with some of the finest people I've ever known.

Unfortunately, some of my bosses were not "the finest", but I'm not bitter about it, not at all.

And, for TheSpinMan, I wasn't referring to Michael Berry. He never entered my mind when I started this thread.  He's a saint compared to some of his predecessors.

[rbrucecarter5]

Well - after hearing of the shameful mistreatment of Buddy Holiday at KSBJ several years back, I certainly do not feel the same about listening to them.  Not very Christlike, that is for sure.

[CaptainShowbiz]

All I know is, there is no hyphen in "psychopath."

[Drucifer]

Clear Channel is enough to make anyone bitter. That being said, criticism, personal, objective or otherwise is not, necessarily, a sign of bitterness.

[FilioScotia]

Thanks Drucifer. There's no bitterness here. I've never been happier.

I left KTRH just before it was sold to a company that was later "assimilated" by CC, but the CC management style was already in force in the persons of Laura Morris and her underling minions. They fit right in with CC managers.

The day I left Fort Rusk at 510 Lovett Blvd I felt like I had been liberated from behind the Iron Curtain. Anyone who worked there in those days can tell similar stories.

That experience taught me a lot about what was happening in the world of radio in the early 90s, and I was deliriously happy to be out of there. I never regretted leaving. My only regret is that it took me as long as it did to make that decision.