Goodell made it through 2014 with his job and it seems like no one has the energy to try to take him down again even though he’s become worse at his job
Everyone has worked at a job with a colleague who is completely incompetent yet still remains employed. Maybe he knows someone in power, maybe his continued employment is simply an oversight by those in charge, maybe it’s just that no one has the heart to fire him. But day after day, week after week, he’s still there, messing up everything he touches and doing it with zero consequences. After a while, his substandard performance becomes part of the culture of the company, one of the annoying things that just come with the job – like people making microwave popcorn in the break room. In fact, his failings are so expected that no one even seems to care much anymore. Of course he is going to screw things up. That’s the standard he has created. He’ll be there as long as the company stays in business.
Roger Goodell is now that guy in the NFL league office. He’s the idiot co-worker who set his job performance bar at total failure and repeatedly meets the standard. The only difference between Goodell and Kevin two cubicles over, the guy who once drifted asleep in a sales meeting and fell off his chair, is that Roger is paid more than $30m a year and leads a multi-billion dollar organization. He is Kevin’s role model.
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