UPDATE Thursday, 6:56 PM EDST
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More proof that college sports fans ain't right
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'splain this to me.
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The boss told the employee that if he did something he’d be fired. The employee did it. Like 99 percent of us would, the employee got fired.
It’s difficult to work up much sympathy for Jeff Jagodzinski, who was Boston College’s football coach until he was canned Wednesday for defying orders – in this case interviewing for the head coaching position of the New York Jets.
The man brazenly brushed off authority and paid for it.
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Having, on two occasions, been placed in this exact position myself, I did what the Coach did. Both times, I wound up leaving the original employer.
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See, I have a funny way of thinking, I think the Emancipation Declaration applies to everyone in this country. And I'm certain, having checked, that telling an employee that they aren't allowed to look for another job is just like telling them they can't try to form a union.
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It's illegal.
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Currently Un-employed Steveo
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PS
this writer is a horses ass, I wonder if he's "shackled" to his job?
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16 comments:
lawsuit a coming
I understand. I work for Hamas but if I had a chance to interview with Al-Quieda, you know I would take it! Better pay and benefits. Why stay in the minor leagues when you can go to the show!
all lawyers,
I'm with you. With prior NFL experience, a 20 -8 record and an NFL team calling him, BC is in trouble in court.
You simply CANNOT tell someone the are locked into a job. Not here anyway.
Abu, your a baseball fan?
I'm surprised you'd throw anything that didn't EXPLODE!!!
(I can hear Abu now, "...not funny Steve, I KILL YOU!")
"You simply CANNOT tell someone the are locked into a job. Not here anyway."
Unless there's a signed contract for X number of years with numerous stipulations and a breach claus.
Me - I've been with the same company for 22 years - when I have looked for another job or had other offers I've been offered more money to stay.
I have a question for Abu the (un)dead terrorist. What type of terrorist are you?
Football is for gays.
CFC said...
I have a question for Abu the (un)dead terrorist. What type of terrorist are you?
A TERRIFYING TERRORIST! BWAHAHAHAHA
Once upon a time there existed an implicit contract between employer and employee that went, "As long as you come to work every day and do a good job, you can continue to work here for as long as you wish." Unfortunately, this is no longer true. Employers no longer have loyalty to employees and concomitantly, employees are always on the lookout for a better opportunity. This climate has fostered a [dare I say it?] a paradigm shift in the thinking of employees, especially the younger ones in my daughters' age range. Their thinking process now goes, "If you want me to stay here and do a good job, then get up off your wallet and pay me what I am worth to a competitor or I shall take my talents there."
It used to be that "job-hopping" was seen as a sign of immaturity and disloyalty, or in other words, a definit liability. Now, it is seen as adaptability and having the talent to roll your skills into a completely new line of work...a definite asset. I should know. I spent from December of 1985 until September of 2000 in the healthcare racket. During that time I worked for, as an employee and a private consultant, 32 different companies. I once had a headhunter call me and solicit my application for a VP level position with a company that bought and ran physical and occupational therapy outpatient clinics. I E-mailed him my resume and he called back to tell me that it looked, in his words, "awful" because of the number of employers for whom I had worked in a relatively short time. I laughed in his face and told him that he obviously had no experience in the healthcare field because my experience was the rule rather than the exception. I actually was invited to fly in for a face-to-face interview. When I learned that the company was located in Houston and that I would have to move there if hired, I declined. The headhunter was extremely pissed and said, "You don't even know what the position pays." I told him that if it paid a million dollars a month, I still wouldn't move to Houston. [I was in La Jolla at the time].
COLLEGE football is for gays
There, fixed it for you!
I think he was treated fairly. He knew the consequences beforehand and figured it was worth the gamble.
Oh, and...
Loyalty in college football? What a sham! Loyalty is a nice, clean, romantic concept still cherished by many who believe in remaining faithful to a cause or devoted to one person or thing. It has its place in many facets of life. Sports isn't one.
It hasn't been for some time, long before Nick Saban repeatedly lied about not wanting to leave the Miami Dolphins for Alabama or Bobby Petrino cowardly informed his Atlanta Falcons players that he was bolting during the NFL season for Arkansas by taping a one-paragraph note to their lockers.
College football is about money, hence the furor over the BCS Championship tonight game tonight between Oklahoma and Florida. The Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is publicly threatening to file a lawsuit on behalf of the University of Utah [13-0, & beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl]. "It's a multi-million dollar - hundreds of millions - business where the BCS schools get richer and non-BCS get poorer," he said.
Shurtleff has launched an investigation into the BCS for possible violation of federal antitrust laws because teams from lesser-known conferences, like Utah's Mountain West Conference, do not get an automatic bid into a BCS bowl, placing them at a competitive and financial disadvantage.
"We've established that from the very first day, from the very first kickoff in the college season, more than half of the schools are put on an unlevel playing field," Shurtleff said. "They will never be allowed to play for the national championship."
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The Las Vegas sports book line on tonight's game is, Florida, minus 4-1/2.
Jimbo,
as with union formation, they CAN"T uphold that clause. I signed two such. My lawyer told me, actually told 6 of us, that in the United States of America many companies include that in their contracts, many people sign them to get the job, but they are un-enforceable.
It's the same, in many places as non-competition clauses. Who the hell really thinks their employees would or could change careers every few years to quit working at We-Suck-As-Employers Inc?
If you sell a business a non-competition clause is sometimes enforceable, but there are still stipulations.
The "stipulation" of, "...because I said so...", works great with 4 year olds and ice cream or ponies, but NOT in the work place.
Oh, and...
Abu, I owe you an abject apology. I thought you were HLF posting under a nom de plume.
Sorry!
I'm sorry C-Bug...
It must be early onset Alzheimers.
It OK Annie, I forgive you.
I know we all look alike to you people.
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