What Would You Do

[MFS62]

I saw this on another Mets board and wondered how CPF-ers would answer it.

]One of the people who reports to me is a die-hard Yankee fan. He's young, single and went to see about 40 Yankee games this year. He eats, sleeps and breathes the Yankees. You know the type. The Derek Jeter screen saver. The full lineup of bobbleheads. The works. He had tickets and was at the game last night for hours before they cancelled it. They've rescheduled for today at 1PM. Do I let him go?

Well, would you?

Later

[soupcan]

I'd let him go.

[Guest cooby]

Of course!

[Guest Hillbilly]

Of course I'd let him go, but I'd torture the hell out of him by making him think I won't.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'd maybe screw around with his stuff while he was gone.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Edgy DC wrote: I'd maybe screw around with his stuff while he was gone.

Ooh, I like it. The Jeter/A-Rod bobblehead possibilities are endless.

I'd let him go too, of course.

[Guest 86-Dreamer]

I faced the same decision today with one of my staff. I let her twist in the wind for a few minutes, but of course I let her go. Good idea about vandalizing her Jeter shrine while she is away ....

[Methead]

I'm wondering whether I would have fired him long ago.

[MFS62]

My response;

]First answer: Let him/her go. Show him/her that Mets fans are nice people. Business answer: Besides, how much work do you expect to get out of him/her? He'll either have a radio plugged into his ear or watch the game/ updates on his computer. Or both. Its not like you're going to be losing much productivity if he/she isn't there. Real answer: Fuck him/her. Yankee fans think they're just as special as their team. Keep the MFY fan at work, micromanage their every move this day, so they can't follow the game, and (knowing you'll now have a very unhappy worker) post their job description on Monster and Hot Jobs.

Follow-up. The person who posted that said he let the person go to the game.
Later

[Guest sharpie]

I had the same situation. She didn't go last night but was offered the ticket when the ticket holder couldn't go.

I let her go.

[dinosaur jesus]

It depends what you mean by "let him go."

[Guest Mr. Zero]

maybe not hire him in the first place?

[MFS62]

Mr. Zero wrote: maybe not hire him in the first place?

We're not sure its a "him".
What if the applicant was as alluring as Edgy's "Ms. S" the Yankee fan?

Later

[Guest Rotblatt]

I decided what I'd do with the bobbleheads.

I'd line everyone but A-Rod on one side of the shelf. They should all be facing the same way. I'd put A-Rod a few feet away, facing the opposite direction. I'd then place a bobblehead-size mirror in front of him.

Sure, it's not as easy as simulating a Jeter/A-Rod blowjob, but this has got much better repeat value. Every time the dude's out of the office, you can rearrange them in different orders. Maybe you remove Sheffield & Giambi from the pack and put two little syringes next to them one time . . .

Then there's the obligatory kidnapping. One of my former coworkers stole a Piazza bobblehead from my office and left a ransom note. Good times. (I got him back safe and sound, by the way, although I DID leave him to my coworker as a parting gift when I left the company. She seemed to be coming around to the Mets--when she got married, one of the items she registered for was Mets tickets, which I of course bought for her ASAP, along with a Mets monkey. It reminded me of the Office, which, given our work situation, was all-too-appropriate!).

[Guest cooby]

OMG, even the Yankee fan would have to laugh at that

[Guest Rotblatt]

]We're not sure its a "him". What if the applicant was as alluring as Edgy's "Ms. S" the Yankee fan?

That WOULD explain it.

Hey, Edge, maybe you should see what happens when you tell S, "Go to work."

[Guest sharpie]

The last few people I've hired have been either Mets fans or, in one case, a Cardinal fan (he's from St. Louis). Slowly I'm changing the formerly Yankee dominant culture here.

[Farmer Ted]

Somewhere there is a file room in the basemet that once served as a bomb shelter. Horrible radio reception down there. Sounds to me like the perfect afternoon to have Mel Hall, Jr. down there cleaning up some old files.

[Guest Edgy DC]

S. works. Shes's working on my soul.

Personally, I think that Jeter is more likely to be the mirror gazer. I think you should positoin the bobbles so as to smash the party line that Jeter is the boy scout/leader/superhero and A-Rod the interloper.

[nymr83]

dont let him go. yankee fans deserve to suffer.

[metirish]

There is no one in the lab where i work to talk about the game with..

guy that sits next to me - " so the Mets won last night"

me - yep"

him - " so who were they playing"

end of conversation.

[Guest Hillbilly]

That's got to take some of the fun out of it, Irish. I'm THE Met fan around here, so everyone has engaged me in conversation about the game. I did leave a nice print out of one of Zvon's cards on my assistant department chair's door. He's a pseudo Dodger fan.

[Guest Rotblatt]

]S. works. Shes's working on my soul.

No no no.

Ulla, go to work!

[Frayed Knot]

This reminds me of the thread that was on SoSH one time.
Seems that some poster (prolly from Conneticut) was worried that her kid (6-7 y/o or so) was being "infected" by kids at school and rapidly becoming a Yanqui fan. What's a mother to do, she asked the board.

"Kill it and have another" was one of the answers.

[Guest sharpie]

It is a parent's responsibility to ensure that any children of theirs roots for the correct team. Abandoning this responsibility is simply bad parenting. Once a child is indoctrinated into Metdom (or in the case in point, Red Soxdom), it must go hand-in-hand with anti-MFY feelings. There is no excuse for allowing a child to go over to the other side.

[soupcan]

="Frayed Knot"]This reminds me of the thread that was on SoSH one time. Seems that some poster (prolly from Conneticut) was worried that her kid (6-7 y/o or so) was being "infected" by kids at school and rapidly becoming a Yanqui fan. What's a mother to do, she asked the board. "Kill it and have another" was one of the answers.

That is very funny.

[Theoldmole]

You gotta let him go.

[Guest cooby]

He shoulda worked. Heheh

[metsmarathon]

of course the correct answer is to never have allowed the situation to develop in teh first place. you you allow chicken sacrifice in teh office? no. same thing with yankee paraphernalia. it has no place in a place of office, or learning, or goofing off at taxpayer expense.

the first sign of pinstripes or interlocking n's and y's, and the employee should've had a long stern sit down with HR.

no two ways about it.

and if that didnt work, and the behavior continued, the employee should have been dismissed immediately. businesses just shouldn't tolerate such things.

[Valadius]

Let them go, but switch the Derek Jeter screen saver with David Wright.