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> I'm not a team owner, I'm a human being looking at this the way I would look at other professions. When the clock stops your time is yours and you get to eat
by coolso 9y ago
> I'm not a team owner, I'm a human being looking at this the way I would look at other professions. When the clock stops your time is yours and you get to eat (and do whatever else you want to) wherever you want.
Most other professions don't involve being in the public eye all of the time.
> No it isn't. The job is to cheerlead, not to 'restaurant evacuate'.
It is if that's in the contract you sign. I highly doubt it's a common occurrence anyway.
> I once was in a place in Toronto and the artist formerly known as 'Prince' aka the Symbol aka whatever his real name was and asks the manager to remove the plebs. Instead the manager told 'the celebrity' to fuck off. To mild applause.
As the manager should've - but that's not an analogous situation.
> I have absolutely no idea why cheerleading is a job anybody would like to have or why it would look good on your resume.
It puts you in front of millions of people on national TV as well as other outlets. Being one of the select few - among thousands and thousands - that gets hired by an NFL team to cheerlead looks great on your resume if you have any desire to be a model, dancer, or involved in the entertainment industry. It gets you tons of exposure. Plus, maybe it's fun?
- jacquesm 9y ago> Most other professions don't involve being in the public eye all of the time. Neither does this one. > It is if that's in the contract you sign. It shouldn't be in there and even if it is it doesn't make it right. Your boss owns your time when he pays for it. If you're not being compensated for your time you are off-work and there is nothing so much off-work as a cheerleader having dinner. > It puts you in front of millions of people on national TV as well as other outlets. Being one of the select few - among thousands and thousands - that gets hired by an NFL team to cheerlead looks great on your resume if you have any desire to be a model, dancer, or involved in the entertainment industry. Sounds like a lot of fluff people would tell someone to accept a job with a shitty wage, crappy contract and no life of your own. > It gets you tons of exposure. Well, apparently not that much, for instance, when you potentially are about to get some of that exposure you are asked to leave. > Plus, maybe it's fun? Most people get jobs to get paid.
- coolso 9y ago> Neither does this one. Yes, athletes are in the public eye pretty much all the time. > It shouldn't be in there and even if it is it doesn't make it right. Your boss owns your time when he pays for it. If you're not being compensated for your time you are off-work and there is nothing so much off-work as a cheerleader having dinner. What if your boss pays for it in other ways? Like bad publicity and exposure to his company, or movie or TV show, or NFL team? If the "can you hear me now" Verizon guy, who now works for Sprint, was seen in public wearing an AT&T shirt, should he not be allowed to be fired because that poorly represents his employer, Sprint? > Sounds like a lot of fluff people would tell someone to accept a job with a shitty wage, crappy contract and no life of your own. You do realize that cheerleading jobs are part time and that tons and tons of women audition in the hopes of becoming an NFL cheerleader. Which is why they get paid a base salary of not much more than minimum wage. > Most people get jobs to get paid. Why not both?