Eric Bischoff: WWE Production Meetings Were 'A F**king Waste Of A Lot Of Time'

Eric Bischoff has revealed he found WWE's famously long production meetings ahead of Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown to be 'a f**king waste of a lot of time'.

Vince McMahon is renowned for holding long production meetings ahead of each televised show, something Bischoff learned only too well during his brief run as Executive Director of SmackDown.

The former WCW boss says he did not need to know every little detail, but conceded that other people may have found the meetings helpful.

Speaking to Renee Paquette on Oral Sessions, when asked about the production meetings, Bischoff said: "My first visceral reaction was, 'this is a f**king waste of a lot of time.' You do not need all of those people in one large meeting.

"When you're going through a format, I don't give a shit. I don't need to know when a graphic is going to hit. The guys in the truck need to know that. They should have their own production meeting. To spend two hours going over that stuff where you really only needed an hour, tops, 45 minutes if you're focused, to get through. To tie up all of that staff, who are not doing other things that they could have actually been doing. We worked out all of that stuff during the week, before we got to TV.

"You sit through the two or three hour production meeting and while you're sitting there starving because you haven't had lunch and you're watching Hunter [Triple H] and Vince (McMahon) piling down filet mignon and sushi while you're sucking down warm coffee in a Styrofoam cup. I thought that was a real waste of time.

"Here's the best part; everyone does get to eat lunch and they go off and start doing the things they are assigned to do at the end of the elongated luncheon for the McMahon family and then you find out....we're tearing sh*t up and we're going to start all over again at five o'clock. We're not talking about, 'let's take this match and move it from segment three to segment six' or 'somebody got hurt and let's rebook a match and figure out a way to explain it and make sense.' It's not that, it's [ripping paper]. There were times like 15 minutes before the show and we're re-writing scenes.

"Here's the other side of it. I'm grateful for that experience, I know it sounds like I'm slamming them, but I'm not, I'm telling the truth. You asked how it made me feel, I don't know how it made everyone else feel, they may have dug it and felt it was valuable, I'm just telling you from my perspective.

"I was thinking, 'what would I do if I was taking this over.' First thing I would do is change the meeting format because we're wasting tons of time, but it's working for them. It's a tough formula for people to adapt to and tough for someone like me because of the way I think and prefer to work and it's tough on talent, but it's working."

H/T Fightful