First one to arrive, but first one to leave on this day.
Saleh was shocked, sources said. He was escorted to his car by the director of security, a source confirmed, in what was described as protocol.
Didn’t happen when the prior coach was fired.
from PFT:
For high-level employees of any organization, it’s a bad look. It’s a power play, plain and simple. It’s a stone’s throw from, for example, deliberately mispronouncing the former employee’s last name during the press conference regarding the move.
The Jets should do what one prior company of mine did: randomly call someone in for a “quick meeting on work” and ~10 minutes later, Security shows up and boxes up all their stuff and won’t say anything to anyone around, and the person never shows back up so everyone around thinks that person got fired but no one will say anything. Later on the manager shows up like nothing happened and all they’ll say is I don’t have anything to say, you need to focus on doing your job and no, you don’t have anything to worry about.
If you can fire a husband and wife like that in the same meeting, that’s a bonus.
Do that until team performance improves. Because, having co-workers randomly disappear and no one says anything about what’s going on is a real morale booster. But I think when that was going on, Security did escort the person out of the building and to their vehicle and off the premises, even if it was someone who was a peon in Claims who’d been there 4 months.
Oh yeah. I might have mentioned this story in the past. Short story: company is eliminating people, but seemingly at random. One day it’s the 12-year person in Finance, the next day it’s the 27-year person in IT, the next day it’s a 9-year person in Claims. One day, they decide a 3-year actuarial student has to go and someone realizes his wife also works there, and the conclusion is if we fire him and she stays, she’ll have low morale and won’t work as hard - so to avoid that, let’s fire them both.
And, since they’re both getting fired, it’s just easier [for the company] if they do both of them in the same meeting.
Huh, there’s a very silly Hallmark (or possibly Lifetime) Christmas movie about a “Corporate Actuary” whose job is to fly from NYC to a Christmas tree ornament factory in a small town (obviously run by a handsome widower who happens to be her age with an adorable kid) and lay everyone off on Christmas Eve.
I had assumed the plot was ridiculous but maybe it’s closer to accurate than I had realized.
When business executive Amelia returns home to help a family-run ornament company, the employees see her as their savior who is coming in to rescue the company, so they are shocked and heartbroken to learn that her plan to get the company on track involves massive layoffs. As Amelia prepares for the holiday ‘trimmings’, she finds herself rekindling an old romance with her high-school boyfriend Jesse, who owns the company. She also soon begins to see the charm of the local business–but will she be able to save it in time?
Typical shitty Lifetime Movie.
But someone has to watch to see how the role of actuary is portrayed.
No, not me. Not “renting” this on Amazon Prime, which is already paid for.
Reading some unprofessional reviews, it is hard to figure out who the owner is without actually watching. Is it Jessie or is it “the mean corporate world”?
GD, I’m getting sucked in to the off-topic hurricane here!
New thread in the pink “Entertainment” Category…
“As far as any of the ridiculous allegations out there, I’m not going to spend more than one sentence in response to it,” Rodgers said during his weekly appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Wednesday.
"And that is that I resent any of those accusations because they are patently false.
It’s interesting the amount of power that people think that I have, which I don’t.
I love Robert."
You thought you had the power to immunize yourself against COVID. Remember that? Having power over nature itself seems a lot more powerful than simply wanting a new coach.
Yeah, that’s the one. I recorded and watched it in 2015 when it was new and we discussed it on AO. Maybe the guy wasn’t a widower… dunno. But it was your typical Lifetime / Hallmark holiday movie cheese coupled with a complete misunderstanding of the word “actuary”.
Heh, I remember him losing track of the down on a two minute drill after spiking the ball to stop the clock. (Sources confirm: that counts as a play!!!)
Speaking of spiking:
Why don’t teams, behind late and need more time and zero time outs, spike the ball when they earn a first down? It is is four-down territory anyway, and it is possible that the first-down pass might be completed and waste more time. Make it three-down territory, knowing you have to gain yards on a “yards per second” metric. And holy shit, no huddles! Set up a group of plays on the sideline before going out on the field. You got to go 75 yards in 60 seconds? Can’t spend more than 10 seconds per play of game time not playing.
If you have to go 75 yards in 60 seconds, the drive is more likely to fail via turnover on downs than running out of time. So it’s better to waste a few seconds than to waste a down. And to your point, they do have a group of plays setup ahead of time so spiking the ball doesn’t end up saving you much time.
You’ll see more spikes under 20 seconds when there are only a couple of plays left.
