Arrowhead anxiety: Turnover off the field causes concern

[Dr. Gigglepants]

Secrecy, intimidation, fear and a watchful eye have become hallmarks of working for the Chiefs, say some current and former employees.

BY KENT BABB THE KANSAS CITY STAR

Todd Haley walked into the public relations office at Chiefs headquarters on a Thursday in early December. Four days before he was fired as the team’s coach, he wanted to talk about what life was like inside this organization. But he didn’t know who else might be listening.

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http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/14...nover-off.html

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This article goes into a lot of detail on the changes that came into effect with the Pioli regime. Sounds like a shitty ass place to work now.

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by DRU

Pretty simple. If you're running a multi-million dollar corporation and your top executives are watching football practice instead of doing their job, wouldn't you want to make a change to remove that distraction?

If you ran that same company and the person in the single most important position in said company was making it less profitable, in terms of dollars and overall success, wouldn't you want to make a change to remove that unsightly piece of mother****ing QBing shit?

We love you, Scott. Happy reading. NE clearly misses you. Trey Hillman-lite.

[HMc]

Originally Posted by DRU

This is another topic in the article I think is being blown out of proportion.

I'm going to guess that many of the people that work at Arrowhead are Chiefs fans, like myself. I'm also going to state the fact that if I were working at Arrowhead, and my beloved Chiefers were practicing right outside my window, I probably wouldn't be getting near as much work done as I would be if I couldn't see them and watch them.

If I'm running a business of any kind and I see this sort of distraction I'm going to do something about it. It's called a business decision, and I wouldn't be surprised if they could present data to backup the fact that general production went up when this distraction was removed.

It's just like blocking Facebook, Chiefsplanet, etc. on company networks. It's a distraction that costs an organization money because of lack of production. It's my opinion that this sort of thing has a lot more to do with what's going on than conspiracy.

Actually, since you're into up-to-the-minute business ideas and conferences and all that jazz, I think it's worth pointing out the currently accepted wisdom is that you're better off not blocking access to such websites. Google it if you want. I work for a major international law firm, who aren't the most progressive types traditionally, and they unblocked facebook and youtube about 18 months ago. It's happening a lot.

Let people have their blinds the way they want them and let them access the internet. You'll have a much happier staff. Underperformers get fired.

How hard can that be? You're just pissing off the productive employees by treating them like children.

[Dr. Gigglepants]

Originally Posted by HMc

Actually, since you're into up-to-the-minute business ideas and conferences and all that jazz, I think it's worth pointing out the currently accepted wisdom is that you're better off not blocking access to such websites. Google it if you want. I work for a major international law firm, who aren't the most progressive types traditionally, and they unblocked facebook and youtube about 18 months ago. It's happening a lot.

Let people have their blinds the way they want them and let them access the internet. You'll have a much happier staff. Underperformers get fired.

How hard can that be? You're just pissing off the productive employees by treating them like children.

My employer opened everything up about that time as well, and it's a lot better for us. Some people prefer fear and intimidation though.

[Fritz88]

How much money is spent on coffee?

Boy I'd hate to work in a place like that.
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[HMc]

Originally Posted by DRU

Pretty simple. If you're running a multi-million dollar corporation and your top executives are watching football practice instead of doing their job, wouldn't you want to make a change to remove that distraction?

And in the process, you upset all those that can produce output with the blinds up, who are probably the people you want to keep.

Remove underperformers when they underperform. Whether they were reading CP or watching practice or fingering their bumholes, who gives a shit?

[FAX]

Originally Posted by HMc

Actually, since you're into up-to-the-minute business ideas and conferences and all that jazz, I think it's worth pointing out the currently accepted wisdom is that you're better off not blocking access to such websites. Google it if you want. I work for a major international law firm, who aren't the most progressive types traditionally, and they unblocked facebook and youtube about 18 months ago. It's happening a lot.

Let people have their blinds the way they want them and let them access the internet. You'll have a much happier staff. Underperformers get fired.

How hard can that be? You're just pissing off the productive employees by treating them like children.

Yeah, the problem with micro-managing is that you get too caught up in minutia and lose sight of the overall direction. Your efforts at leadership become comical.

As a business leader, you're far better off managing "results" (or the lack, thereof) and staying the hell away from trying to herd cats. If someone is spending so much time on the internet that it's adversely affecting their work product or performance metric, find somebody who has a different set of priorities or who can manage themselves better. You get big bucks knowing who to hire and who to fire ... and when ... not for being a babysitter.

That's how I see it, anyhow.

FAX

[KCrockaholic]

Originally Posted by Fritz88

How much money is spent on coffee?

This must be why Arrowhead is using the extra cheap see-through toilet paper.

[KcMizzou]

Originally Posted by HMc

Actually, since you're into up-to-the-minute business ideas and conferences and all that jazz, I think it's worth pointing out the currently accepted wisdom is that you're better off not blocking access to such websites. Google it if you want. I work for a major international law firm, who aren't the most progressive types traditionally, and they unblocked facebook and youtube about 18 months ago. It's happening a lot.

Let people have their blinds the way they want them and let them access the internet. You'll have a much happier staff. Underperformers get fired.

How hard can that be? You're just pissing off the productive employees by treating them like children.

I, for one, support this change. **** Websense. Trust me to do my job. I'll do it.

[DRU]

Originally Posted by HMc

Actually, since you're into up-to-the-minute business ideas and conferences and all that jazz, I think it's worth pointing out the currently accepted wisdom is that you're better off not blocking access to such websites. Google it if you want. I work for a major international law firm, who aren't the most progressive types traditionally, and they unblocked facebook and youtube about 18 months ago. It's happening a lot.

Let people have their blinds the way they want them and let them access the internet. You'll have a much happier staff. Underperformers get fired.

How hard can that be? You're just pissing off the productive employees by treating them like children.

This is steering us in a different direction, though. If you want to discuss the positive or negative effects of making such moves, and whether or not it actually helps or not, we'd probably agree on a lot of aspects of it.

Here, though, this article and the responses to it are trying to claim that decisions like this are being made to be secretive, or to try and back up conspiracy theories. I just don't buy that.

Also, I know I'm the one who brought up the analogy, but if you want to discuss that subject in this way I'd have to say that online resources are quite different than something going on outside my window.

One of the reasons that unblocking the internet can be better is because they're actually valuable resources for employees to use to find information in an efficient manner. Watching football practice outside your window, though, isn't going to do that for you.

Also, I'm not saying that this IS the reason they closed the blinds. I'm just saying that there are plenty of reasons changes like this could be made that don't have to do with conspiracy. Hell, it could be the players getting distracted because some smokin hot chick works in there or something. Rather than bring attention to her they make everybody close their shit.

It could be anything, and I just don't think it's good ammo to use in articles like this.

[Micjones]

Restricting access to certain sites is about more than just productivity.
An employee, left to his/her own devices, could probably get some pretty nasty shit in the wrong places on the Internet.

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Originally Posted by Fritz88

How much money is spent on coffee?

Boy I'd hate to work in a place like that.
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Cassel's coffee mug says "the best part of waking up is Pioli in my butt!"

[KCrockaholic]

I bet Chiefsplanet is blocked at Arrowhead on everyone's computer BUT Pioli and Clarks.

Or maybe it's the other way around...

[Smed1065]

**** him, Thats a Smed move. Get it right or move out. Step up or out. Or be mecca.

The last regime was secretive and nasty to the media as well... perhaps not to this level but I think they're all that way. When you're throwing millions at coaches, personnel, and facilities you spend millions to protect those investments.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

I run my Hog semen extracting facility in much the same manner. I hired a bunch of jerkoffs and crawl their asses if they spill anything.