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.
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.