Posted on 01/15/2016 6:47:43 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump blasted the unnamed "bastard" responsible for setting up a faulty sound system at a Wednesday-night campaign rally.
"And by the way, I don't like this mic," Trump said after criticizing US trade policy with China during his speech in Pensacola, Florida.
The Republican presidential front-runner then crudely instructed his staff to not pay the person responsible.
"Whoever the hell brought this mic system, don't pay the son of a b----," he said.
Trump added: "This mic is terrible. Stupid mic keeps popping. Do you hear that George? Don't pay him! Don't pay him. You know, I believe in paying, but when somebody does a bad job like this stupid mic, you shouldn't pay the bastard. Terrible. Terrible. It's true."
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lol yeah, hows that crow taste?
It’s not crow, it’s Taco Bell. Sriracha is spicy stuff.
If you want to consider how a bad mic makes you look, consider inserting a Q after every third letter in your FR posts, and imagine the responses.
Then again, you post the TDS drivel you do, and aren’t embarrassed by that, so I guess a bad mic wouldn’t bother you because you’d figure what the audience hears is still intelligible.
Such as?
Perhaps, sure has changed since I joined 12 years ago.
1. MERIT
2. PRODUCTIVITY
Trump's world is a MERITOCRACY, where PRODUCTIVITY is measured and expected.
I agree with that sentiment however someone that immediately makes rash decisions based on assumptions for a simple mic issue without the individual who set it up input is what I have issue with. Who is to say this guy didn’t spend 3 hours or more testing the equipment and everything checked out? Rather than to just say hey can you have the guy fix this and then follow up with a simple find out for me how this happened it was an immediate flash to incompetence, stupid, fire his a@@ without one ounce of gathering details.
That is not a person I want leading me. No way in hell. That is called leadership by fear
That's gotta scare gubmint workers.
I’ll make the same point to you, Who is to say this guy didn’t spend 3 hours or more testing the equipment and everything checked out? Rather than to just say hey can you have the guy fix this and then follow up with a simple find out for me how this happened it was an immediate flash to incompetence, stupid, fire his a@@ without one ounce of gathering details.
That is not a person I want leading me. No way in hell. That is called leadership by fear.
If this is the type of leadership you seek then hey find a boss meeting those qualifications and chase that job
Sounds like this microphone was Bush league.
Just go in any post office. These are the people who will be managing your future healthcare. Frightening.
People need to get thicker skins. It's time we stopped accepting mediocrity.
You Trump-o-bots are the ones deranged. You guys will excuse anything he does or says.
Nonsense. The sound guys are responsible for setting up a mic that works - notice how most of these events have two mics at the lectern. Helps if you want a stereo feed and really helps if one mic flakes out. Mics have very good matching across production lots, so if you have a set of them they work the same.
Anyone working in the pro sound business knows that you don't tell Jon Bon Jovi, or Bruce Springsteen, or Axl Rose that he needs to find the "sweet spot" of the mic you gave him. If the mic isn't good it just comes flying towards you and you damn well better have a roadie ready to run out with another one.
A speech mic on a lectern should be a piece of cake for a pro audio crew. I'd suspect sabotage myself if I heard the kind of bad audio Mr. Trump had to contend with.
In the concert situations I have experience with that kind of mistake puts your job seriously at risk, or gets your entire company fired from the tour.
Remember Michelle Bauchman’s make-up job? The network made her look like a corpse with black eyes and left the back of her teased and sticking out? She did not know that you have to bring your own make up people or learn and do it yourself.
These “little guys”, who are leftists, are nasty and don’t deserve the jobs they get when they act irresponsibly and dishonest.
A more likely scenario is that the sound guy didn't check it at all. There are some jobs where you just have to do the job correctly. Kind of like flying an airplane. I really don't want to have a conversation with the pilot about what went wrong after the plane skids off the runway, and I doubt you do either.
And remember, the sound guy is almost certainly not an employee, he's a vendor. How patient are you with a vendor who really screws up a job for you? Would you want to hear the restaurant's story about why there was a dead mouse in your salad or would you just refuse to pay for it?
Bingo! There is no excuse for not testing the mic. Trump should sue the company.
Good points. I just like to think we treat people in general in a much better fashion ya know? I’d be damned if I spoke with an employee I manage or contractor in this manner unless absolutely aggregious. Just a difference in management style I guess. I’ve been on the other side of this and treat contractors as I do my employees with dignity
See #94.
For some jobs, “followup, find out what happened, gather details” isn’t an option.
It. Must. Work.
Most bands/performers have interesting “riders” on their performances (go look them up at TheSmokingGun.com).
Famously, Van Halen has a bizarre line tucked into their rider: “Munchies: M&Ms - WARNING - ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES”.
Seems stupid by your reasoning.
There’s a good reason for it.
David Lee Roth explained: “So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl ... well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you’re going to arrive at a technical error. They didn’t read the contract. Guaranteed you’d run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.”
Trump is fighting for the future of the USA. Like it or not, whoever becomes POTUS will make a HUGE impact on the direction, perhaps survival, of this country. Just like the “butterfly effect” (look it up), one bad mic making him sound unintelligible/laughable on stage could lead to, say, Bernie Sanders becoming POTUS - and suffer the political equivalent of a level-5 hurricane hitting Florida. Yeah that mic better work.
I know you two will scoff. Other FReepers will appreciate the analogies.
It might be nice if the guy in charge of the government had a “no pay for crappy products or service” policy. The government (i.e. all of us) would save a fortune.
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