One More Reason to Hate the Heat
So you've slaved away at your job. Dedicated 5+ years of your life to selling season tickets for an up and down team. You took the financial hit of selling tickets to watch Wade and some D-leaguers. Now your dream comes true, finally you field an exceptional team. Sales will be easy. Taking care of your season ticket holding customers is your main priority. Except wait, you've just been fired by the company you dedicated yourself to. Apparently paying salary to 30 loyal employees selling tickets was just too much for the Heat. Is there any reason to like these guys?
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SPTSJUNKIE
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No, not really.
"I have talent that's there, but I just have the mentality right now that I just want to be the greatest. And I don't think that any other player has that right now." -DeMarcus Cousins
by Noble_Bloodlines on Jul 30, 2010 6:41 PM PDT reply actions
Really sucks for these guys.
Never fun to be unemployed.
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If the sales agents were hired for a specific purpose
and that purpose had been satisfied for foreseeable future, and it was, I cannot find too much fault with the employer. I ask you Sport Junkie is an employer obligated to keep an employee indefinitely to the detriment of business? No. it is an at-will agreement on both sides. So the Hate-the-Heat rhetoric is misplaced.
And this is why it always pays to make yourself indispensable if you have to answer to a boss. If you can make yourself useful in multiple ways to an organization, perhaps you avoid the chopping block.
No, you are not....
however, these were not obsolete employees. My ex sold tickets for the Clippers (not high level enough to be a season ticket seller) and those employees worked every game night and made sure the season ticker holders were taken care of to cultivate relationships and keep them selling. It’s actually a very grueling job, as fun as the idea of it may sound. To have someone who has worked with you through good and bad seasons and then let them go, because you can save a few dollars is very disloyal. It’s not like they are cutting jobs due to the economy. They are actually going to make a ton. However, now they figured they could get someone to do their job cheaper and just let people go who have most likely been working 60-80 hour weeks killing themselves to grow professionally and help the team.
I'll add
this along is not the world’s most nefarious move. But for a team that is already generating a lot of dislike from fans because of how the players came to the team, this move is another small chink in the armor.
They probably can go hire a dead goat to sell their season tickets for the next 6 years.
"We're not talking about me and Darko in the same sentence." - Chris Webber vs KAHN!
by caseycheesecake on Jul 31, 2010 5:53 AM PDT up reply actions
I worked
For the Golden State Warriors right after i graduated school in the Ticket Operations dept (season tickets). Yeah you work hard… just like any other job. It is laughable to make season ticket sales seem like a blue collar job. “Slaved away at your job” haha, you do realize they sell season tickets right?
The Miami heat just spent does not owe them anything, just like any other private company.
Lol, you might be righ
all I had to go off of is what my ex told me. Maybe the Clippers is very different than the Warriors.
Like I said below, the Heat did nothing illegal, but there’s a difference between doing what’s legal and what’s right. I personally think it was a poor move. You obviously disagree.
This is the same team that made all it's employees take a 25% paycut.
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No mistakes in the tango, Donna. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Last season.
EvilCowtownInc: Screwin Suckaz over since 1985...... On Twitter
No mistakes in the tango, Donna. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Why? Am I saying this just to say it?
I have to go find it. And I don’t really feel like it.
EvilCowtownInc: Screwin Suckaz over since 1985...... On Twitter
No mistakes in the tango, Donna. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I figured since you are on StR...
10 to 14 hours a day, give or take, a quick google search would be amenable to you. I will see what I can find…
Don't have a link bit I remember what pookey is refering too...
Oh and f@ck the Heat…
F#ck Kobe Bryant.
F#ck Shaquille O’Neal
F#ck Phil Jackson
F#ck Rick Fox (twice)
F#ck Sasha Vujacic
F#ck Robert Horry
F#ck Derek Fisher
F#ck Dick Bavetta, Bob Delaney and Ted Bernhardt – I’m still waiting for them to have their jerseys retired at Staples.
F#ck Every Laker fan who comes to Arco Arena, wears his hat sideways and stands up and cheers with his arms out and his back to the floor whenever Kobe scores a basket.
Oh, and F#ck Jack Nicholson, Dyan Cannon, and that silver haired douchebag wearing the snakeskin boots.
Who’d I miss?
by B-RAD on Jul 30, 2010 8:08 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
In less than a minute
I found a link that says the affected employees were the basketball operation staff, not all, and the pay cut was UP to 20%, not 25%.
And speaks to your credibility. If you are going to accuse an organization of B.S. dealings, try to get your facts straight.
by bench_blob on Jul 30, 2010 8:14 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
If I gave a rats ass about my credibility with you, which I don't, then I'd worry about it.
EvilCowtownInc: Screwin Suckaz over since 1985...... On Twitter
No mistakes in the tango, Donna. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I don't hate the Heat.
If you want to be your best, you have to do your best, otherwise you are only second rate.
Me either.
But I am referring to them in perpetuity as “The Miami Humidity.”
Rocks are free, and slingshots easily stolen. And for a limited time, every third person who follows me on Twitter (andy_sims) gets a free ice cream cone.
Which I will eat.
my favorite is calling the trio
The Three My-Egos
by betweentheeyes on Jul 30, 2010 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions 4 recs
What's with the "loyal employees" line, anyways.
What…like the employer wasn’t loyal? They got paid for their job right? Now their job is done and they are gone. Go get another job. I know it’s not easy in this economy and that’s the reason I had to move up here to support my family. They wil do what they need too, to do the same. Employers owe nothing to employees but to pay what is due, not discriminate and obey other labor laws.
Oh, and I hate the Heat. Go Kings.
"......but Curry had a better TS%"
Ok, short version
the Heat did nothing illegal or terrible. This is all relative. But if you knew about what Season Ticket sales people went though, you would understand it is a grueling 60-80 hour a week job. The Heat were well within their rights. You have the right to ignore it and not care. I see it as a small sign of a disloyal franchise. Imagine if your company did the same. You can choose to ignore and still cheer for them. I will think no less of you. I see this as one more reason to want them to lose. And that is my right.
That's all fine except for
1) you didn’t read my post because I don’t cheer for them or
2) you intentionally said it to set up a staw man argument by characterizing my statement as one of a fan cheering for the Heat.
3) You said “Imagine if your company did the same.” I can. I worked for AT&T for 9 years as a lineman, never got in trouble, herniated two discs on the job, with sciatica in both legs, foot drop on one leg, on total disabilty via the work comp doc and then was terminated after 9 months of disability because I could not do my job any more. Guess what? They were within their rights. I used to be mad at them and then realized that was the job I had and they paid me for the hours I worked. They owed nothing but what the law requires.
So I got an education and am now sitting for the CPA. If you lose your job get another one. That is all.
Well that was really more than I wanted to share on this site, but oh well.
"......but Curry had a better TS%"
by kwill on Jul 30, 2010 11:55 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
As much as you were trying not to sound bitter
That’s exactly how you sounded.
“I got scewed so who cares if other people get screwed”
I didn’t really read up on this but the only problem I would have is if there was no warning. Maybe a 2 or 4 week notice, a bonus for doing an excellent job, or maybe offering another position to long time employees.
I love beating dead horses.
by allbenji's on Jul 31, 2010 8:16 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Ok
1 – Nowhere in my post did I say you were a fan. I said you had the right to cheer for them. If you don’t, it really doesn’t change anything I said.
2 – See #1. Never said you were a Heat fan.
3 – I am very sorry about your experience with AT&T and congratulate you on sitting for the CPAs. That is a very tough set of tests, my best wishes are with you.
However, I feel as if a few people in this post have acted like I am saying the Heat did something illegal. They did nothing illegal, they can let go of employees at anytime, just like any company. However, there’s a big difference between what you can do and what is the right thing to do. I personally feel like this was a messed up move.






















