tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294006309395467596.post5312946714971063840..comments2023-06-02T03:14:25.504-06:00Comments on The Works: Matt at Work: The Office out WestMatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17472327017382459378noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294006309395467596.post-83520446002377273352010-10-13T13:51:58.016-06:002010-10-13T13:51:58.016-06:00This was a good read and a good overview.
Regardi...This was a good read and a good overview.<br /><br />Regarding this: "And the pressure on Zack was just too much."<br /><br />To expound on my part in this which you have tastefully, but briefly gone over... it wasn't so much the quantity of the pressure of the job I found offputting, but rather how the pressure was applied.<br /><br />From my perspective, working at WH was a lot like team sports, such as a football team (using an analogy we can both relate to), where you have many people that play a role to the collective good of the team as a whole. Only our football team had a coach who was more interested in hamstringing his players than anything; intentionally breaking every other knuckle on his QB's hands, the arms of his receivers, and hobbling his RBs ala Kathy Bateman/Misery style and then immediately questioning their performance, with complete disregard to the maniacal behavior he had in crippling them... and when you add to that the appointment of an Offensive Coordinator who had never even set foot on a football field, well, it was not an environment conducive to productivity.<br /><br />Don't get me wrong, we had some touchdowns, and even some victories... but there wasn't a person on the team that didn't think that those were in spite of injury rather than a product of it.<br /><br />Every team must have its Randy Moss's, and it's T.O's... and once we started accumulating people like such who were more interested in how WH could benefit them rather than the team as a whole (in addition to the coaching staff), then I lost the vision of what was possible, and there didn't seem a point to it anymore. Despite my objection to those people, I can't really fault them for it... if anything, they responded to the hostile environment better than I could, so they get a cookie.<br /><br />It was a tough pill to swallow that those of us that worked hard to make the team function the most were the ones classified as the "bad apples". That burned like bile in my throat during the entirety of my tenure there... but it would be a defeat for me to look back at that experience and call everything with exception to the social aspects (relationships created) a failure. The best thing to come out of WH for me was a better understanding of how NOT to treat your clients, the people who work with you, or more importantly, for you... that and of course, the 'everyone must now sit to pee', which is a very close second.<br /><br />Of course, I didn't need to tell you any of this, since you lived it with me and already know it. But it was fun to reminisce a bit.Zackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06637517878992285144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294006309395467596.post-67369364981889358422010-09-28T21:32:09.137-06:002010-09-28T21:32:09.137-06:00I thoroughly enjoy reading about your work experie...I thoroughly enjoy reading about your work experiences and really get a kick out of your sarcastic and clever remarks!Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09457942518546049738noreply@blogger.com