Coronavirus and sports

[simmer2]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

I'm completely ashamed of the Jets of the organization for not paying their staff. It's disgusting and I'm reconsidering my July trip to Jets Gear to buy some merch.

Did you ever think for a minute that the Jets may have no choice in order to stay a viable business? Hockey teama have massive overhead and huge fixed costs...those dont go away.

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by simmer2

Did you ever think for a minute that the Jets may have no choice in order to stay a viable business? Hockey teama have massive overhead and huge fixed costs...those dont go away.

The owner of the Jets is worth 36 billion dollars.

[White Out 403]

Originally Posted by simmer2

Did you ever think for a minute that the Jets may have no choice in order to stay a viable business? Hockey teama have massive overhead and huge fixed costs...those dont go away.

The Jets make millions of dollars in profit every year while the value of their organization continues to balloon. They receive millions in tax payer dollars for development, and, are owned by billionaires, some of the richest people in Canada.

Yeah, I think they can pay their ####ing staff.

What a garbage post.

[Torture]

Originally Posted by simmer2

Did you ever think for a minute that the Jets may have no choice in order to stay a viable business? Hockey teama have massive overhead and huge fixed costs...those dont go away.

Yeah, those minimum wage workers are really the ones that are going to break the budget compared to the multi-million dollar athletes.

[Torture]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

I'm old enough to remember when they butted into the line for vaccines for H1N1

Totally forgot about that.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

The owner of the Jets is worth 36 billion dollars.

He could cut a $20000 cheque to all of TNSE's employees and it would be recouped before dinner.

[Itse]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

I mean, good for you, I think that's laudable. But it's effectively just money out of your pocket, so why do you feel obligated to give it to your employees, as opposed to, for example, other people in Calgary (or hell, anywhere) who are more vulnerable?

This is a pretty basic false dichotomy. Helping these people does not stop them from helping other people.

It's also at this point fairly decisively proven that the idea that you shouldn't help those near you if the money could theoretically be spent elsewhere to help someone even more in need is nonsense in practice. (Help/charity is also generally most effective and least problematic when done within the community.)

[Itse]

Nm

[minnow]

Originally Posted by Torture

Totally forgot about that.

The Flames had an in house clinic type of thing, no cutting in line.

[Rando]

Originally Posted by minnow

The Flames had an in house clinic type of thing, no cutting in line.

ummm...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...neups-1.809497

[Reggie Dunlop]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1238897268083666944

[Duffalufagus]

Ouch. Being shown up by the oilers. Not a good look.

[AC]

Greedy morons.

They're going to be effectively forced to at this point out of the tidal wave of bad PR that's coming their way. But everybody will remember their initial stance when so many other teams were eagerly announcing they were doing the right thing.

This is really embarrassing.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by Duffalufagus

Ouch. Being shown up by the oilers. Not a good look.

Yup, this is incredibly embarrassing for the Flames. I predict they'll likely cave to public pressure before the end of the day.

[ricardodw]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

The Jets' failure is even less forgivable when you consider that their owner is the richest man in Canada.

Whose only rational reason for investing in the team was to have a franchise to relocate to a more profitable city. Thompson doesn't owe Winnipeg anything.

According to Forbes (dec 2019) the Jets lost 7.7 M on the $420M asset . Murray Edwards made 3.6 M on his $500M asset. There are 10 players on the Flames that made more on hockey than the owner.


Edwards is avoiding paying Calgary and Alberta taxes by relocating to London England.

[White Out 403]

Originally Posted by Duffalufagus

Ouch. Being shown up by the oilers. Not a good look.

Good for them. Shame worked. Time to keep shaming the rest

[cam_wmh]

So Katz is classier, than Murray Edwards, Alvin Libin, Allan Markin, & Jeff McCaig.

OUCH.

I genuinely, couldn't see this kind of lack of stewardship under the Seaman bros, Hotchkiss, Kwong, Scurfield & the like.

[simmer2]

Originally Posted by Torture

Yeah, those minimum wage workers are really the ones that are going to break the budget compared to the multi-million dollar athletes.

You can't lay off athletes with contracts, but you can lay off part time employees.

It isn't fun for these companies to do, but their responsibility is to ensure the long term viability of the business.

Just because the guy is a multi-billionare, that means he should not do what is in the best interests of the corporation long term?

Are you mad that Westjet is having to lay off 50% of their staff to continue to be a viable business?

[Patek23]

I’m about to severely contradict myself here.

How is this any different than what other employees may likely go through if people are told to stay home. It cannot be the sole burden of the “evil” employers too bail out things out of their control.


HOWEVER, wow what an out of touch ownership group we have. Unreal. Just took the city through the ringer to bleed out every tax dollar they could with the veiled threat of picking up and moving shop. What a way to win over the city for what is essentially peanuts in the grand scheme of things to this ownership group and the gain they got from bending the city over on the arena. All these people’s salaries must be what? 250k in a month if that. Sign the cheque’s. get the good will and that likely could of made itself back in the good will. Now they’ve just left a bad taste in the citizens of this cities mouths again showing that with them it’s always going to be about the bottom line.

Really wish we could get some fresh blood ownership that actually cares about our city then these out of touch dinosaurs.

[Wastedyouth]

This is totally disappointing. And in a season where the team could really use some positive publicity with its fans.

Gross. Has me questioning my ability to cheer for the organization (although I still will cheer for the players). I just cannot find this action acceptable.