OT: R.I.P. Roy, Boyd Loses the Best he had... Options

[Britain Smith]

Just wanted to take a second to honor Roy on American Hotrod (Boyd's Cottington). I just heard about him passing away...must say I will miss him. He was definitely the best that Boyd had...true craftsman. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/welder.gif)

-Britain

[mikeyb33]

more, re. Boyd:
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I dunno, having watched that show 8-10 times last year (while on travel for work - no cable tv at home for me)(..cheap b#std that I am), I think Boyd is a very poor manager. For one thing, he chews out people, regularly, right in front of the other workers (something that would get a manager FIRED in my co.). Yeah, real smart - take your project lead and undermine his authority and credibility in front of everyone else...

and yeah, it's tv, but if he's doing that just to 'add drama' to a show he's obviously being paid well to take part in, that makes him double an a$$hole for the way he's going about it. And, as has been said above, he expects everyone to give 130% and only rarely shows token appreciation for their hard efforts.

it's almost routine: When the newest project starts up, and the new (..whatever) car comes into the shop, you could make it a contest - how quickly will the project lead get on Boyd's sh!t list. Usually it's within the same show, a day or less in real life.

Compare to O.C.C. ("American Chopper" show, for you less than cable-savvy folks): Sure Paul Sr. regularly gives people flak - mainly his son Paul Jr - but while it seems even more obvious he's doing it for the theatrics, it doesn't seem like there's hard feelings involved - they usually end up laughing it off and they're all buddies again, within a short while. While on American Hotrod (A.H... hmmm interesting initials there...) you have people talking about quitting pretty damned often. That right there says you are dealing with a bad boss (IMHO).

I stopped watching the A.H. show because by the end of each episode, I'd found I was getting rather wound-up by the pointless stress being shared by everyone on that show (even when a project got completed). Whereas at OCC/A.C., you see people busting a gut, getting stressed, sharing some terse words, but when all is said & done you can tell that everyone feels they are on the same team & they act that way. Maybe because it's more of a family operation - you don't get that sense of constant antagonism like on the A.H. show.

And frankly, all of A.H.'s creations end up looking like the 1980's ZZ Top -mobile. Sure it's some mighty fine looking work, but that is so two decades ago...

anyway I dunno what set me off, I guess I haven't ever vented on that show with anyone - and perhaps I needed to! - so there's my $0.02 -

mike
p.s. AHEM. Anyway, too bad about Roy - I think I remember which guy that was - I too am sorry to see him go.