Marrone on EJ using his cell phone

[X-Era]

Interesting.

http://blogs.buffalobills.com/2013/08/21/ej-manuels-mental-routine-during-rehab/

“I told him, you have to be smart about it. Initially, you have this down time after the procedure, which is a short down time. And you’re on the phone quite a bit, talking to everyone. And I told him, what you’re doing is, you’re putting yourself in a bad situation where you’re conditioning other people to talk to you at this time, which you’re not going to have during the year. You’re taking up your time to do that, and then you’re going to have to transition back to a working type atmosphere. I said, we don’t want to go that route.”

[ghz in pittsburgh]

Re: Marrone on EJ using his cell phone

Marrone is walking a fine line here. These are 18 year olds coming to Syracuse where you have total control of them. These are million dollar athletes who can just easily tune you out. I understand Marrone's position though: be professional and use professional time for professional usage. If he's successful, he can be our Jimy Johnson.

[better days]

Re: Marrone on EJ using his cell phone

Marrone is walking a fine line here. These are 18 year olds coming to Syracuse where you have total control of them. These are million dollar athletes who can just easily tune you out. I understand Marrone's position though: be professional and use professional time for professional usage. If he's successful, he can be our Jimy Johnson.

Marrone has been in the NFL. He knows how to deal with NFL players.

[The King]

Re: Marrone on EJ using his cell phone

I think this is spot on. He's preparing EJ to be a franchise guy. If Manuel can become the quarterback we're all hoping he can be than this stuff is important. Marrone is preparing him to be Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers, Matt Ryan on and off the field. EJ is 23, he's a now a professional athlete with a lot of pressure, kudo's to a coach who's trying to help him balance everything.

Marrone and EJ will be forever linked. So it's in the coach's best interest to stay on top of him.

[Uncle Jesse]

Re: Marrone on EJ using his cell phone

It's a good point, hopefully EJ sees the light behind it, the small things like that really add up.

[Fletch]

Re: Marrone on EJ using his cell phone

When you're on-the-clock you're on your employer's nickel.

Unless it's a call to family/wife, etc., or another reasonable call that can't wait, cell phones should not be used during work hours.

I had a Walmart clerk texting while I was waiting to check out one day. I waited nearly a minute for her to finish.

[Skooby]

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Emergency or business use only, that's about all.

[Beebe's Kid]

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When you're on-the-clock you're on your employer's nickel.

Unless it's a call to family/wife, etc., or another reasonable call that can't wait, cell phones should not be used during work hours.

I had a Walmart clerk texting while I was waiting to check out one day. I waited nearly a minute for her to finish.

You poor thing. And to think she made almost 12 cents while you sat there and waited. She shouldn't have treated you with so much indignity, while your standing at Wal-Mart was securing her trading the hours of her life for $7.25 and no healthcare to get treated like **** by people that think she needs to treat them with some unreasonable level of respect, which is not reciprocated at all.

Just curious...what if her mother was in the hospital, or one of her kids was sick, or something that you would have deemed a reasonable excuse to use the phone? You don't. You implied her reasons, and did so negatively because you waited for almost an entire minute. It sounds like you call your family during working hours, hence it being an acceptable reason, but can't stand if somebody else does.

Who give a ****? We are all on a one way trip to the crematorium anyway, and if you have to trade the hours of your day for a sack of nickels, and you actually have the opportunity to speak to somebody that isn't only interested in what you can do for them...go for it.

[Saratoga Slim]

Re: Marrone on EJ using his cell phone

Yeah, I think that's totally fair. When you're on the job, you're on the job. Can't run, find something you can do.

What I'm not 100% sure about is Marrone passing this along to the media. If it was a question he was responding to, fine. But otherwise that seems like one of those little conversations with a new employee that should probably stay in-house.

[Saratoga Slim]

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You poor thing. And to think she made almost 12 cents while you sat there and waited. She shouldn't have treated you with so much indignity, while your standing at Wal-Mart was securing her trading the hours of her life for $7.25 and no healthcare to get treated like **** by people that think she needs to treat them with some unreasonable level of respect, which is not reciprocated at all.

Just curious...what if her mother was in the hospital, or one of her kids was sick, or something that you would have deemed a reasonable excuse to use the phone? You don't. You implied her reasons, and did so negatively because you waited for almost an entire minute. It sounds like you call your family during working hours, hence it being an acceptable reason, but can't stand if somebody else does.

Who give a ****? We are all on a one way trip to the crematorium anyway, and if you have to trade the hours of your day for a sack of nickels, and you actually have the opportunity to speak to somebody that isn't only interested in what you can do for them...go for it.

Someone needs a hug.

[Uncle Jesse]

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You poor thing. And to think she made almost 12 cents while you sat there and waited. She shouldn't have treated you with so much indignity, while your standing at Wal-Mart was securing her trading the hours of her life for $7.25 and no healthcare to get treated like **** by people that think she needs to treat them with some unreasonable level of respect, which is not reciprocated at all.

Just curious...what if her mother was in the hospital, or one of her kids was sick, or something that you would have deemed a reasonable excuse to use the phone? You don't. You implied her reasons, and did so negatively because you waited for almost an entire minute. It sounds like you call your family during working hours, hence it being an acceptable reason, but can't stand if somebody else does.

Who give a ****? We are all on a one way trip to the crematorium anyway, and if you have to trade the hours of your day for a sack of nickels, and you actually have the opportunity to speak to somebody that isn't only interested in what you can do for them...go for it.

"They make a dollar while I make a dime, so here I ****, on company time."

This is what goes through my head as I poop at work, daily.

[lightningbolt444]

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You poor thing. And to think she made almost 12 cents while you sat there and waited. She shouldn't have treated you with so much indignity, while your standing at Wal-Mart was securing her trading the hours of her life for $7.25 and no healthcare to get treated like **** by people that think she needs to treat them with some unreasonable level of respect, which is not reciprocated at all.

Just curious...what if her mother was in the hospital, or one of her kids was sick, or something that you would have deemed a reasonable excuse to use the phone? You don't. You implied her reasons, and did so negatively because you waited for almost an entire minute. It sounds like you call your family during working hours, hence it being an acceptable reason, but can't stand if somebody else does.

Who give a ****? We are all on a one way trip to the crematorium anyway, and if you have to trade the hours of your day for a sack of nickels, and you actually have the opportunity to speak to somebody that isn't only interested in what you can do for them...go for it.

Maybe if she understood respect and was not using company time for her own personal time she would not be making 7.25 an hour. I never feel bad someone if they work at low paying jobs. They can control what they make. If they do not like it go back and learn a skill that will make them money. People have the ability to better themselves but would rather be handed the 75k-100k a year job then have to go out and work for it or go out and learn something new. It should not matter if you make $1 or $1000 you should always put forth the best effort you can at work. It is a matter of self respect to me and knowing I can always say I gave 110% at work no matter the situation.

[Skooby]

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How does a minimum wage job come up when you're paying a guy a ~$1,000 an hour to pay attention at work ?

[gebobs]

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Marrone's a genius! I'm so glad this snippet was pointed out and we now have a thread where we can rejoice the fact that we are now certainly going to the Super Bowl and EJ is going to be a perennial MVP.

[Skooby]

Re: Marrone on EJ using his cell phone

You poor thing. And to think she made almost 12 cents while you sat there and waited. She shouldn't have treated you with so much indignity, while your standing at Wal-Mart was securing her trading the hours of her life for $7.25 and no healthcare to get treated like **** by people that think she needs to treat them with some unreasonable level of respect, which is not reciprocated at all.

Just curious...what if her mother was in the hospital, or one of her kids was sick, or something that you would have deemed a reasonable excuse to use the phone? You don't. You implied her reasons, and did so negatively because you waited for almost an entire minute. It sounds like you call your family during working hours, hence it being an acceptable reason, but can't stand if somebody else does.

Who give a ****? We are all on a one way trip to the crematorium anyway, and if you have to trade the hours of your day for a sack of nickels, and you actually have the opportunity to speak to somebody that isn't only interested in what you can do for them...go for it.