tom webster
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37 minutes ago, Big Guava said:
It's pretty funny. Companies don't give a crap about you when it's time to let you go and give you exactly 0 days notice most of the time yet they expect their employees to bend over backwards and "do the right thing" by giving them 2 weeks.
Which some places will decline and promptly tell you to leave, essentially leaving you 2 weeks with no income.
So why exactly is this still a rule?
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Maybe if people stopped allowing this nonsense to go on and just called them up and told them they aren't coming in and they quit they would think a little more about doing the same thing to employees.
As it is they can play by whatever rules they choose but he employees are suppose to play tiddlywinks with them because it's "unprofessional" not to. Well, I think it's unprofessional when a company calls in employees that have worked there 25 years and sh!t cans them on the spot with no notice so they can pay the CEO more and upper management more bonuses.
As always, they want their cake while they eat it too.
Thank goodness more people are looking out for themselves first nowadays just like it always should have been.
While I understand the sentiment, what kind of performance do you think said employee is going to give if he’s told two weeks in advance that he’s gone?
I’ve been fortunate, I’ve never had to let someone go that didn’t deserve to be fired and never had to close a place that others depended on for their livelihood.I’m not sure there is a pat answer for how to handle dismissal of good, reliable employees.
I do think that a twenty-five year employee deserves a severance package.
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7 hours ago, inkman said:
There is a wrinkle. I recruited on of my long time employees to come work for me at my new gig. I gotta break the news to him. So, about 30 minutes before I leave today, I’m going to tell my boss. Then meet up with my boy and break the news over a beer. I feel terrible but he’s in a much better situation.
Sometimes you just have to do what is best for yourself. Good, professional managers understand when someone is bettering themselves. Like others have said, give notice as soon as possible, have that conversation with your boy and revel in the fact that you apparently are a hot commodity. Congratulations my friend.
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6 minutes ago, JujuFish said:
Douglas is not better than pre-injury Tre. Post-injury, sure.
Wait, I just realized we're probably talking about two different injuries.
Yes, I was referring to the time between injuries.
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While they have made necessary moves to reset the cap situation and age of roster, why does that mean they aren’t contenders this year? Where are they worse then last year?
Safety? Poyer and Hyde where a liability last year.
Corner? Douglas is here from the start and is better then what White was before the injury.
Linebacker? A healthy Milano and Bernard with Williams entering his second year could be best in league.
Defensive line? They lost Floyd who hit the wall about midpoint.
Offensive line? Center may be an issue.
TE - Kincaid will be amongst the league best
RB - Better
WR - Diggs was a non factor last half of the season and Davis made more bad plays then good ones.
QB - ?
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39 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
I really tried to temper expectations on what Power was but almost universally around here it was "big guy hit stuff" and as I will repeat until this site goes dark, size does not equal grit.
It’s been like this since the beginning of man. The only place I see Power disparaged is Buffalo. Athletic just had another article were anonymous general managers are still divided in their belief that Power will end up better then Dahlin.
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2 hours ago, JohnC said:
My criticism isn't the specific hiring of Lindy. He may turn out to be an excellent hire. You ask why lengthen the process? There is a simple and good answer for that: You may end up with a better candidate by waiting a little longer when other candidates could have been available. Yes, Lindy fit the criteria that the GM laid out when the hiring process was established. That doesn't mean that by waiting other candidates wouldn't also fit the desired criteria. Quite the contrary, by waiting a little longer there would have been a longer list of candidates to choose from. What's wrong with that? Why the urgency to get Ruff in the fold right now? What other franchise was knocking on his door?
I'm rooting for Ruff to do well. In my mind, this hiring process was too limited and rushed. As @LGR4GM aptly stated: the organization hired the candidate that they wanted before the process was meaningfully gone through. That's not the best way to conduct business when doing a candidate search.
I wouldn’t strongly argue with anything you said but we don’t know that they didn’t have a good knowledge of who would be available to them if they waited. Also, there is some, even if minuscule, advantage to getting this behind them in order to plan the course of their offseason.
In general, I think you can learn a lot about yourself by interviewing a myriad of candidates. I don’t think the same applies to NHL coaches.
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2 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
He's the most experienced but saying "best" seems questionable.
I said “one of, if not.” Like I said, I’m not sure he is the best but I’m not sure who, of the available, experienced coaches would be.
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3 minutes ago, JohnC said:
It wouldn't be a surprise that a decision was made on Granato before the season was over. I'm not focusing my attention on the hiring of Lindy in this process. My complaint is that there was not a meaningful process that allowed for consideration coaches who were already with other teams or teams that would shortly be available after their teams lost in the playoffs this year. The candidate list was shrunk before it needed to be. That's my main complaint.
Ruff may turn out to be the right coach at the right time. It's an open issue for me. But why the rush to hire him? I doubt if any other organization was pursuing him. And if there was interest in him, I doubt that there was an imperative by any organization to get him signed so soon.
The Sabre coaching search was a surprisingly truncated process. In my opinion, this was a third-rate process that seems very perplexing to me. I certainly wish Lindy well.
If you were intent on hiring a veteran NHL coach, there aren’t many available with a better resume then Ruff’s. Berube would’ve been the only choice that won a Cup unless you wanted to sell your soul to the devil and go after Quenville. Why lengthen the process when one of the best, if not the best wanted the job? It seems to me that if Ruff never coached here and they took a month longer to hire him, ninety percent of the people criticizing the move would have nothing to complain about.
I am not sure he was the right hire. I just think he has a good to better then good chance of being the right guy.
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Just now, LGR4GM said:
Kevyn Adams claims he spoke to double digit numbers of candidates. Which quite frankly I think is *****.
I don’t doubt that he called at least ten guys. I doubt that he seriously interviewed more then two or three.
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9 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:
I need to see how Ruff set up his staffs after he left Buffalo. In Buffalo, whether it was his choice or bc of budgets, he never had assistants with head coaching experience at the pro level.
I am going to barf if he fills his staff with inexperienced former Sabres.
I'd also like to know what if any assurances he got re: TP's commitment and involvement.
Finally Lindy you might as well tell us if you got fired or quit in 2013.
A) He had Brunette in Jersey.
B) It was pretty widely reported that Darcy went to his house to fire him. Is there reason to believe otherwise?
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At two o’clock a friend text me that Sabres canceled a couple of scheduled events for tomorrow and was wondering if something was up. I guess I should have assumed this was happening.
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1 hour ago, #freejame said:
There wasn’t a thread on it so I didn’t bring it up, but naive is a good word for it, definitely. He was way out of his league.
He’s not the only coach that ever thought treating athletes like adults was the way to go and it has worked for others. History has proven that all types of coaches win. You can debate his system or lack thereof but he didn’t lose because he was easy on them.
In my opinion, if accountability was really the problem, the real failure is on guys like Okposo and other veteran leaders. This team needed someone like Chris Drury, Daniel Briere, Mike Grier and JP Dumont. Guys that ran Satan off the team and wouldn’t tolerate anyone not giving it their all.
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I was wondering the same as well and also @Taro T.
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10 minutes ago, Big Guava said:
His net worth has gone up by 3 BILLION to over 7 BILLION now since he bought the Bills so, I think he is doing kinda alright.
Basically the guy gets to pay an arm and a leg to sit in a cool box and talk to some people but have no control of anything.
Wonder who will pony up about 750 mil for the right to do that?
Exactly, he’s able to turn equity into liquidity without going public. Only significant change will be when they show TPEGS on tv during the game it will say majority owner instead of owner. Maybe he will have to grant minority partner right of first refusal if he decides to sell majority share.
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14 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
No. The Sabres are bad. They need changes.
No we wouldn't. We'd have won 2-3 more games. We're bad offensively.
I’m a little confused by this. They’d have won 2-3 more games? You realize three wins would have put them ahead going into the final game.
I think those that want change may be happy before Friday.
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35 minutes ago, shrader said:
What kind of veteran goalie though? I think he fully expects a 1A/1B situation between 6K (there you go, @Hank) and Levi. Any veteran would be that #3 type spending most of the time in the AHL. I don’t want to see that, but it’s what I expect.
That is the conundrum. Finding a goalie good enough to lead a NHL playoff run if needed but willing to spend time in the AHL and able to clear waivers to do so.
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1 hour ago, dudacek said:
Id kick tires on a proven NHL backup to provide a safety net and make Levi earn the NHL.
I think that will be hard because the more capable options will be reluctant to sign with Levi looking over their shoulders.
They will sign someone. Fingers crossed he will be better than Dustin Tokarski and Malcolm Subban.
I think they will add a veteran goalie and a veteran center in the Boone Jenner mode. I’m with you, I don’t see them adding a defenseman. I think they are very happy with their top seven assuming Ryan Johnson steps up and they have no issue with the top four being all left handed.
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1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:
The Bills have a very important thing that the Sabres do not. Josh Allen, the 2nd best QB in the NFL.
He's had no answers for months. Listening to him is sickening as he blathers on while saying nothing and taking 0 responsibility. He couldn't tell you how to fix this team if the hockey gods came down and wrote him a book on it.
I really put little stock into any interviews or radio/tv appearances any of these guys do but it’s hard to argue with your conclusions.
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8 hours ago, Second Line Center said:
Don’t care either way - but yes they should be fired. Then, per 2024 NHL rules, when we start 2-8, does new guy get fired? What’s the rules? People getting fired left and right the Rangers are winning the Cup anyway - btw I said after opening night loss to the Rags we just lost to the best team in the NHL. That team looks different.
We have bigger problems.
1. Terry Pegula as de facto Team President
2. The city of Buffalo is not a place the players we need want to relocate their families to.
We can overcome one of those two. Not both.
Too many heads in the sand over number 2.
“We want guys that want to be here” is a mantra that’s born out of necessity. Thus the build from within that’s beyond to the extreme right now.
But like I said. You can overcome one of those not both.
Buffalo/WNY has a fairly good rep amongst older players with families. It’s a majority of the younger players who have a choice that don’t want to come here. Again, as stated before, no demographic is one hundred percent either way. The Bills have no problem recruiting players they want
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1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:
Team is a bunch of losers. The head coach sets the tone and the tone is no accountability.
I have been ambivalent towards the coach and his staff but it really appears he has no answers. I think it’s time to move on.
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1 hour ago, TheAud said:
Gotcha! Did not realize that.
For that matter, Vesey was drafted as well. Guys who are drafted but don’t sign by their deadline, become free agents in August. These are just guys who were never drafted.
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22 minutes ago, TheAud said:
Blake Wheeler, Dan Boyle
Blake Wheeler was not the same as these guys. He was a first round draft choice who never signed.
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19 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
Mattias Samuelsson has absolutely no offense to his game. He is next to useless once you get into the neutral zone and certainly an afterthought in the offensive zone. He may shutdown plays at a good clip, although I do have some questions based on that model, but without showing us the average and then telling us what standard deviation away from that Samuelsson is, idk how to take the stats other than he might be good defensively but not leaps and bounds better than the league. That would be what my eye test says, he is solid defensively, above average, and can be trusted to deal with opposing top lines. I want him no where near the offensive zone though, all he can do is pass the puck to his partner or send it down low, there is almost no other skill or manipulation to that side of his game. I actually think quite a bit of Muel's defensive game, but the rest I don't. It is that duality that has me down on the guy overall, coupled with his complete inability to ever be healthy for more than 60% of a season.
You can’t argue the durability question and that is mentioned in article as well. My point is just that knowledgeable people can have polar opposite opinions about athletes and in my opinion the variance is most striking in hockey and the growth of analytics has done little to change that.
As for the contract, my opinion all along has been with the cap eventually approaching $100M, Sammy’s contract will never be overly cumbersome.
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14 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:
Totally agree on the bolded. I think they said: "Playoff experienced top-4 D? Check! Handedness, schmandedness." with Byram.
The only thing that gives me pause on the top 4 is this current lineup of Power-Dahlin. Jokiharju isn't going to break the bank on a bridge and if Byram-Joker gels the final 6 games, I think we easily see Muel start next season with Clifton (where they both belong, albeit as a pricey 3rd pair). But that's for summer conversations!
I know LGRM doesn’t think much of Murl but there is an article today on the Athletic that has him ranked very high on list of shut down defenseman.
While you can debate the merits of both opinions and credentials of both people, what is indisputable is that with all the wisdom analytics has added to the conversation, there is still no absolute statistical program that is one hundred percent accurate in projecting future success or even quantify current performance except for one, wins and losses.
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Sorry, nothing is absolute. Not every company acts with complete disregard for their employees.