It was the same scenario at CC when I worked there. All of the District Managers and Regional Managers preached about disciplines and strategies, while all along not knowing an ounce about the products they were responsible for managing. Take satellite radio for instance, when it first hit the market, XM & Sirius were separate companies, fighting for market share. XM had more money and bigger partners backing them so CC jumped on board and secretly pushed XM over Sirius. It was never verbalized to us openly, but all the special deals were on XM equipment and not on Sirius, all of the ridiculous advertising posters, stands, 10x10 signs, tag holders, package deals... whatever you want, were XM advertising, not Sirius. They even had 10 times the product in stock of XM over Sirius at any given point! For the longest time we couldn't"t even get Sirius equipment, but we had millions of dollars of XM gear piled up everywhere! Yet, back then, if anyone took the time to listen to Sirius for one full day, then listen to XM for one full day, it was no comparison! Sirius crushed XM when it came to good, well thought out playlists. Their channels ran true, the alternative channel played exactly that, not 4 genres of music like every XM channel did. You could put any XM channel on and hear the same 30 songs in the same freakin order any day of the week. Sirius had way more variety in their song selection and strayed away from the mainstream garbage XM regurgitated everyday. They had better coverage due to more satellites and better technology, XM rented bandwidth from other satellite companies, Sirius OWNED their satellites! Despite all this, CC made so many bad business moves they worked them selves into a hole they couldn't climb out of. I bailed a year and a half before they went under, it was obvious 2 years ahead of time what was going to happen. And guess where 60-70% of CC's corporate employees and district/regional managers went? What comes before C in the alphabet? Yeah 2 of those. That's probably why MI@BB's shirts were maroon starting out, the CC Roadshop uniform was Maroon shirts for the longest time. Probably just coincidence, but it wouldn't surprise me. So yes, the downfall of MI@BB is not the employee's fault, it's the deushetards in the big offices who don't know the difference between a humbucker and a single coil. Who don't know what 60 cycle hum is, who probably bought a vintage Les Paul to hang on their wall in their office. Oh wait, they got that $10,000 guitar for free cuz they have some back door deal to sell so many LP specials at Xmas...
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