Even Less Gloom?

On Jun 22, 10:19 am, Jay Honeck wrote:

Although he is an engineer, Mr. Bass' background at Sony
Corp. and General Electric is managerial. It is well known
that he was brought into Piper to "slash & burn" in order
to save the company.

First, you're not going to find anyone running a company like that
without some managerial background, so by that token, anyone running a
company large enough to require such experience is a bean counter,
which seems to devalue the term somewhat. Second, while it may be well
known, can you produce some cites to support the assertion that he's a
hatchet man?