MCI has almost always had crappy management. Just before I left there, somebody noticed that there were no outages over the holidays... gee, because nobody was doing any work! Instead of paying enough money to keep the good people and dumping the idiots they recruited from bagging groceries, their response was not to allow any work that *might* affect traffic during business hours. Retarded managers who screwed up got promoted or transferred to make somebody else's life miserable because firing an idiot butt-kisser would look like a reversal of a Custer Decision. Over 6 years I saw just about every bad management cliche there was. No surprise to me.
When were you there? Before or after Worldcom? Bad management occurs in all large corporations. However, there was a marked decline starting around 1987 when MCI became a true market force. The Entrepreneurial focus left and was replaced by a bureaucratic mess.
BTW, Bernie Ebbers was a reseller customer of mine during the early LDDS days. He would come to Atlanta to visit and sit across from me at the conference table with his cowboy boots propped up. What a piece of work he was.....
NeverGore :^)