Lupin the Third
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Post by Lupin the Third on Jul 30, 2014 22:08:08 GMT -5
WWE, here's the thing. You could increase your profit by 600%* if you did one thing:
FIRE KEVIN DUNN.
*This stat is not based entirely on truth.
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Post by lildude8218 on Jul 30, 2014 22:10:34 GMT -5
Val Venis: Even if they get rid of 10% of my staff I'm still a cut above the rest
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jul 30, 2014 22:37:30 GMT -5
I have to wonder if they could not find a cheaper way to run shows without compromising on quality. For example, I went to a Smackdown taping a couple of years ago in Indianapolis at Banker's Life Fieldhouse (home of the Indiana Pacers). The attendance was decent, especially considering the fact that a blizzard hit the town that evening (I live an hour away and had to get a hotel room for myself and my son because the roads were closed), but I don't see why it had to be at that arena. There were significant areas tarped off on the same side of the hard camera and the upper deck. Banker's Life Fieldhouse has room for a little over 18,000 but they did not need even half of that. There are no fewer than 5 stadiums in Indianapolis that seat over 7,000 (3 multi-purpose, 1 college, and 1 high school). While I think that WWE should never consider Lucas Oil Stadium for anything less than Wrestlemania and are nowhere near needing to book high school stadiums (and most states don't have high school stadiums the sizes that Indiana likes to use; 13 of the 18 high school stadiums that seat 7000 or more are in Indiana), I don't see why the show had to be at the Fieldhouse. For the numbers of tickets that they sold, they could have booked Hinkel Fieldhouse or the Fairgrounds Coliseum, not tarped anything off, and Hinkel Fieldhouse would have made a good visual packed. Unless they were granted a massive discount to use the Fieldhouse, I don't see why they could not have downsized slightly.
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Post by Chainsaw on Jul 30, 2014 22:41:23 GMT -5
Gotta love getting laid off because your bosses are f***ing incompetent. Don't I know it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2014 22:54:33 GMT -5
I'm assuming most/all of these releases will be behind the scenes, not so much on the wrestler side.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jul 30, 2014 23:03:05 GMT -5
Yes. Because the wrestlers aren't staff.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jul 30, 2014 23:10:04 GMT -5
Val Venis: Even if they get rid of 10% of my staff I'm still a cut above the rest Choppy choppy 10% of your pee pee?
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Post by The Trashman on Jul 30, 2014 23:25:46 GMT -5
Just fire ADR. You still won't get all of the money you wasted pushing him so hard (when he is not a main event level talent from my view) but at least it would a good chunk of the 10%.... Del Rio has a contract. Most of the WWE office people dont.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jul 30, 2014 23:26:35 GMT -5
Sack all the announcers except Renee Young and William Regal
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Post by Slanted and Enchanted on Jul 30, 2014 23:28:46 GMT -5
Gotta love getting laid off because your bosses are f***ing incompetent. Don't I know it. Ouch sorry to hear. My company is going through the exact same thing. We've had at least 40 layoffs/firings earlier this year and another rumored wave coming this summer. I could be a part of it, who knows. Ironic how it is almost following the WWE situation step for step. But yeah all the senior directors and Executives still sitting pretty collecting a nice little salary while the lady who did mailroom for 25 years gets the axe. .......I'm steering a little off-topic I think.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2014 23:58:40 GMT -5
Easily solvable without people losing their job or atleast not so many. Scale down from this. Back to this.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jul 31, 2014 0:15:29 GMT -5
I'd scale down even further and ditch the enormous screen (which means fewer backstage segments and recaps, thank goodness) and the pointless giant stage and ramp. I'm sure WWE wrestlers can walk on a floor that isn't sloping.
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Post by Hobby Drifter on Jul 31, 2014 1:02:30 GMT -5
If only Vince and Linda had, say, 100 million dollars lying around to help their employees keep their heads above water in this difficult time.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 2:53:54 GMT -5
Unless they were granted a massive discount to use the Fieldhouse, I don't see why they could not have downsized slightly. From my understanding it can be cheaper to rent bigger buildings because there's less demand for them. Same reason why TNA books buildings that are way too big for them. WWE is pretty smart when it comes to these things, if they could make more money running a 7,000 seat arena then they'd do it.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jul 31, 2014 3:15:08 GMT -5
Gotta love getting laid off because your bosses are f***ing incompetent. This. The upper echelon of management should have their salaries axed in half, and all performance bonuses indefinitely suspended. It'll never happen, of course, but those directly responsible at the top of the pyramid should always suffer first. I wish I had the business acumen to actually found a company on these principles. But then of course I suspect by the time I got into the position to make that kind of money, I would have become a money hungry nutjob if this situation ever came up anyway and behave the exact same way.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 4:39:08 GMT -5
10% of the staff- so that means Kevin Dunn's two front teeth are getting the ax.
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Post by Crimson on Jul 31, 2014 6:30:34 GMT -5
I said this in the other thread, but just release Mysterio. Salary-wise, he has to be making more than 90% of the roster. He's too injured to compete on a regular basis anyway.
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Post by Crimson on Jul 31, 2014 6:32:45 GMT -5
This. The upper echelon of management should have their salaries axed in half, and all performance bonuses indefinitely suspended. It'll never happen, of course, but those directly responsible at the top of the pyramid should always suffer first. I wish I had the business acumen to actually found a company on these principles. But then of course I suspect by the time I got into the position to make that kind of money, I would have become a money hungry nutjob if this situation ever came up anyway and behave the exact same way. That or your board of directors would try to push you out the door.
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Post by willywonka666 on Jul 31, 2014 6:37:28 GMT -5
Wonder what they'd save cutting the first hour of RAW?
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jul 31, 2014 6:54:24 GMT -5
Wonder what they'd save cutting the first hour of RAW? They'd lose money from the TV station and a shitload of ad revenue.
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