You’re right. It’s not really a smear.
He’s not demanding NO interactions (note that he implies an ability to make appointments). He appears to be demanding that impromptu interactions (if any, and I suspect that he prefers to minimize them altogether) be initiated by him. I struggle to find a reason to think of this as unreasonable.
On the contrary, they are quite explicitly instructed to do just that. And the notion that your average stagehand or what have you will suddenly be faced with a dilemma that can ONLY be resolved by Mr. Harvey strikes me as implausible.
Look, it says in the memo that meetings in his dressing room aren’t something he’s going to put up with. You think maybe that has recently been something he’s come to view as a problem? I do. Probably most of the meetings that were cropping up in his dressing room didn’t demand his participation or presence in the first place. If he DOES need to be present at a meeting, there’s probably a conference room where it (and every other meeting) can be held.
Saying “Howzit” while passing in the corridor is probably sufficient interaction for him. He’s their employer, not their buddy.
That said, I find his talk show to be tedious.
it’s being revamped with his move to LA this fall. I suspect there will be more celebrities and less “how to get a man” talk.
Goodness gravy! From the blog:
That logic, there, is so gazillion-D chess I think I popped out of my britches. Maybe he and Kyrie Irving can apply for teaching positions at Harvard.
Thread perfectly summed up here:
The memo sounds like someone with a big head wants the little people to stop bugging him with their unimportant dreary little shit, because he’s a STAR.
Probably not unusual in his line of work, and if you wanna be in show biz, you have to kowtow and cringe accordingly.
Like others have pointed out, when you are in the top-of-the-heap role, you really need to manage time and access. It sounds to me like he could have done a better job of building his organization below him to handle this.
If he had an effective Chief of Staff type of role under him, then that person could have crafted the message out the to team, “Please ask me first, before bothering Steve. After all, everyone’s paycheck depends on Steve doing his Steve thing, so best to make sure he has all the space he needs to do it.” Coming from that level, it wouldn’t have sounded (to some people) so much like Steve being petty.
It sounds like a perfectly reasonable request to me, just poorly phrased.
No, people are saying that it’s not unreasonable for him to request this. If you’re being reasonable, you’re not really being a d-bag.
He may be a d-bag for other reasons but putting a layer between himself and staff requests isn’t one of them.
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friedo, that’s out of line. I don’t know BigT’s employment status, but I’m having a hard time seeing how “try actually having a job” isn’t a personal insult. And you could have expressed the same sentiment non-insultingly, as demonstrated by muldoonthief just two posts before yours. I’m going to make this a Warning for personal insults.
This. As worded, it does make him sound like an ass. That’s why one has at least an assistant, if not several, to manage stuff like this.
Whoa. I apologize for seeming to have abandoned my own thread. I somehow missed getting a notification of new posts and thought there hadn’t been many replies…until I got this new one and see there have been a bunch! I have a bunch of errands to run but I will check back later.