Ask any goaltender or coach the Oilers have had over the past decade. Ask their old goalie coach.
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4. Dysfunctional processes: including vague objectives/deadlines, meaningless solutions, and unintended consequences
What do the Oilers actually want to do? When do they plan on doing it? Who will be held responsible if they don't achieve their goals?
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5. Dysfunctional relationships
How do employees relate to one another at your company? In a toxic workplace, everyone seems to struggle with relationships. Misunderstandings are common, leading to frustration, anger and inefficiency. Gossip and criticism are the norm, and cliques lead to favoritism and feuding.
Noticeably absent in a toxic workplace are clear and straightforward conversations. You rarely see a quick resolution of relationship issues, and bad feelings may linger for months, or even years.
Sometimes you just have so much respect between a player and a coach it boils over... There have been accusations of a cliquey locker room in Edmonton for years now. Where there's smoke there's fire.
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6. Dysfunctional meetings
Signs of dysfunctional meetings:
A)Topics are meaningless
B)Bully is allowed to dominate meetings
You'd have to be a fly on the wall within the Oilers organization to know this one for sure, but have you watched an Oilers press conference lately? Listen to the way Lowe handles criticism in that video I posted above. He gets mad.
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7. Obvious hypocrisy in the company
Come on here. Oilers management expects excellence out of their players on a nightly basis, but they flat out suck at their job. Dallas wants them to play a strong defensive game (They're a defensive team, remember?) but his great defensive insight is the ####ing swarm.
I love this part from this section too:
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Clueless or evil management
Even when the hypocrisy seems obvious to everyone, upper management seems unaware of the contradictions between what is said and what is done. Maybe they want you to guess whether they are hopelessly unaware or utterly lacking in integrity.
This is Katz to a friggin tee.
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8. Overly restrictive systems for controlling people
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A workplace bully usually thrives by controlling others. He prefers a workplace with dehumanizing systems, offering him more opportunities to tightly control their behavior.
Remember how Dallas has players roll around and bark like dogs if they mess up a drill?
This next part is the defining difference between the Flames and the Oilers:
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Toxic vs. enlightened workplace
In a toxic workplace, employees are criticized and punished for failing to meet established criteria, regardless of whether the item makes any sense. Common sense is not considered as a meaningful factor.
In a more enlightened environment, the emphasis is on training employees to achieve excellence, and on providing them with appropriate techniques and tools. In effect, the systems are subordinated to the employees. In a toxic workplace, it is the other way around: the employees are subordinated to the systems, based on the premise that people can’t be trusted to think for themselves, and they can’t learn to do their job skillfully and reliably.
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9. Incompetent or powerless human resource manager
No one is going to fire anyone, and McTavish has shown within the last two weeks that he is A)incompetent in identifying which people need to go and B) powerless to move people even if he wants to.
This whole section is Craig McTavish incarnate. I think he must have wrote it himself, sort of a cry for help type thing.
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Signs that management encourages bullying:
1.) Remote from employees
2.) Bully is part of management “club”
3.) Seems to deal with bully
4.) Bullying is rewarded
5.) Effort to appease a workplace bully
At this point I'm not even going to keep writing, this post is long enough already. Wow though, this is what is wrong with the Oilers. This is why the Oilers are screwed.
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My personal favourite was when Heatley refused to waive for Edmonton. The returning players in the trade were leaked. And Lowe attempted to visit Heatley in his cabin out wherever and he wouldn't even answer the door for him. Haha.
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My personal favourite was when Heatley refused to waive for Edmonton. The returning players in the trade were leaked. And Lowe attempted to visit Heatley in his cabin out wherever and he wouldn't even answer the door for him. Haha.
This story? First time reading it. It was a good read
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As hard as they wooed the two-time 50-goal scorer, going so far as to dispatch GM Steve Tambellini and president Kevin Lowe to Kelowna to speak to the Ottawa winger, and sending a spiffy video extolling the virtues of their hockey club and the city, Heatley dragged his feet.
I don't know if it's a burnt bridge. Looks like the bridge was never built in the first place. Quite an interesting story though. Could possibly be used to discuss how the Oilers put their eggs in one basket and didn't have a back up plan?
I'd really like someone to compile all of the "This guy scores" images, as well as the Statler/Waldorf jokes. Perhaps you can just alternate between them. I'd give it an A+++.
I think the day they went after hossa in free agency and let us swoop in and grab Glencross is a good example of what is wrong with their player selection and development.
