Unlike every other Hollywood star I am not having an open door policy to my dressing room.
Posted on 05/11/2017 4:44:16 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Steve Harvey is moving his daytime talk show to Los Angeles this fall, but his new staff may not want to expect a sunny welcome from the host — at least, if his past communication is any indication of his attitude toward his staffers.
A memo that was sent from Harvey to his staff surfaced earlier today....
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Any who think this is an act of vanity on his part, would be well advised to know his story: http://people.com/celebrity/steve-harvey-i-was-homeless-for-three-years/
He was literally homeless for a time in his life, and through his own hard work and by the grace of God he pulled himself up and out of it to become the success he is today. One will note reading that story he doesn’t have bitterness or blame for his previous hardship, like so many stuck in poverty seem to have. His life is an example of what conservatives claim to want for everyone (at least I claim it): just an opportunity to better oneself, no government “assistance” just opportunity.
So to me knowing this about the man, it seems to me he’s just asking for what any human being would want: some down time, some time to not have to constantly “be” with other people, a scheduled orderly day in other words. It seems like a responsible and reasonable thing to ask for in my opinion.
THIS is EXACTLY RIGHT. Don't fall for it Fellow Freepers.
Besides, if you look at it from his persepctive, this is completely reasonable.
Sounds like a man suffering the consequences of years of poor management. Someone who writes a letter like that generally does so only when other methods of communication have failed.
Redundant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kMBcBdjQl0
The bestest Family Feud evah
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Pork Cu pine
Priceless!
(I already waste enough time watching youtube clips. Thanks for adding game show outtakes to the list)
Sounds reasonable to me.
Unlike every other Hollywood star I am not having an open door policy to my dressing room.
Sounds like an executive who wants better time management.
-PJ
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Yep. But if he wants better time management, he better focus on HIS management skills. That memo was foolish.
I don’t think this was unreasonable.
I vote that he’s a jerk. Regardless of his past bad experiences and his rightful desire to manage his time, his approach is pure jerk. There are better ways of winning people to your side than to dictate terms in jerkenese.
Yep. I work for an executive and we have some people who think nothing of coming in and expect that if the door is open they can walk in and interrupt regardless of who is in there. So, the door is closed a lot. There are also people who spend as much time getting their daily dose of face time as they do performing their jobs.
I get two to three minutes in the morning, 5 or so if needed in the evening with my boss. If more time is needed I get on the calendar. This is an unwritten rule among the immediate staff, but our time is better used and the boss’s time is better used if we stick to these boundaries.
Agree.
It sounds like a guy who is tired of being the “nice guy” and accommodating staff distractions. I suspect that as a performer he never expected to be a leader and manager. But that is what he has become.
No indication that normal courtesy greetings and small talk at appropriate times is prohibited. Rather this is directed at staff attempts to corner him in the dressing room or make-up chair and get decisions. He repeatedly notes that if you need to meet with him, make an appointment.
It is an attempt to create structure to his schedule and create white space for him on his calendar.
I suspect that when the show began, it was unstructured and small enough that informal meetings were fine. Now, I suspect that it and his staff are simply too big for that approach. He needed to crack down and did so.
I guess the talk show was coming from New York City. He has some commute to Family Feud in Atlanta from Los Angeles. Under John O’Hurley the show left Los Angeles. It was for the O’Hurley years at the Walt Disney World Resort.
Especially if you are a problem solving kind of person. We live in a time where most people will easily let someone else do their thinking for them. (thinking's hard, man).
So, I kinda get where he's coming from.
Flashback to people in our large office calling others who kept their doors closed so they could get their work done being called “anti-social”.
"The President of the United States, Hillary Clinton!"
Just another Amish with pretensions of being somebody...
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Try successful talk and game show host. He is, to his advertisers and audience, somebody. Why begrudge someone else's success?
Nothing wrong with trying to structure your interaction with your staff. I would hate to be constantly buttonholed as I go about my day.
Dig one level deeper and you’ll probably find that Harvey himself encouraged these patterns that now frustrate him.
Effective managers don’t get accosted in the halls for business questions, because they have communication systems in place to make it unnecessary.
Harvey probably made himself so unavailable and uncommunicative that the only way people could do their jobs is to accost him for information or direction on a regular basis.
If he had half a brain he’d make someone else the business manager.
Not every talk show host puts out memos like this, I’ll bet.
Better ways to do it. Much. Would you want to work with or for someone who addresses you like this?
Hitlery apparently had same type of rules, as if she were royalty.
Not good.
Respect someone’s space? Yes. Avoid all human contact? BS.
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