He also said there was a guy who knew the station and where cuts could be made safely under the reduced income regime. DeMorel fired him.
And that was also an observation. 'Used to'. A good manager gets people together to get the best picture of the situation possible. He'd KNOW what the problems are if he didn't insist on doing it all himself, and coming up with his OWN plan (namely, trick robots into fixing the station for free when the cuts didn't do the things he wanted).