why did you and pete not get along if you were doing an awesome job, and you said he was also brilliant, and he was getting the athletes crazy results
Well, he's pretty hot tempered, which isn't helped any by being in charge of the nfl combine prep, the facility, and the college/h.s./youth training. Being hot tempered and in control of all that, sometimes he'd be cool, sometimes he'd be a complete a$$. Mostly leaning toward the a$$ side, unfortunately. Being an intern I'd try and keep to myself & only vent with the other interns, but sometimes we'd get into it.
There were four interns in total, and he made a few interns "cry", let's leave it at that.. bahaha.. At times, it felt as if you were just an intern-slave, treated like trash. I've had a bunch of interns under me @ MSC, none of them will ever tell you that I made them feel like trash. So, I'm just not down with that. I'm pretty sure his internships & experience at IMG had an effect on how he treats his interns. He had some hard internships & realized becoming drill sergeant-like gets people to listen to him. Of the 4 interns, not one would deviate from this critique:
- Insanely knowledgable
- Insanely passionate about s&c
- If you ask questions, really gets into it
- Not cool to be around
- Has a GOD complex
We got into it a bunch of times, but the one that sealed the deal was this:
(this incident came after my first internship was done, just starting my second one)
He was on vacation, so I opened up PC on a sunday morning. I was the only person there, for some reason, so I was stuck with h.s. performance and something else (I forget), two conflicting groups. Massive-overload. But whatever I'm down, I'm a great multi-tasker when it comes to that crap, I can train h.s./m.s/college all at the same time it's nutty. So, the session has about 10 more minutes, you know, people are still doing their assistance lifts, finishing up, BUT, the next session is about to start. So, say 10 minutes left on this session, at 12pm, which is when the next group is supposed to start, but instead, since we're running 10 minutes late, it would start at 12:10.
So the secretary comes running out, "start the next group". I politely tell her we're going to be done at 12:10, so, 12:10 i'll start them. She throws a fit then leaves. Keep in mind, this next group, is the UNPAID athletes, meaning, ones who are about to sign up. This would be their first session, ie, performance testing, to get their initial numbers. She comes back out at 12:05 flipping out in front of everyone, even that group's parents, trying to make me look like a moron, so I got a bit loud with her, and basically said 12:10. So I'm finishing up, right before 12:10, she comes out once more flipping out beyond belief, so I said something I shouldn't have: "get the hell out of my face" (ya, not cool, no parents could hear it though, but not cool regardless). She goes back into the office, calls pete, tells him some asinine story. Meanwhile, the group at 12:10 starts just fine, everything goes fine etc.
Here's the problem I had with that scenario: Why would a group of athletes, who have already paid & have been working out for a while, have their session cut short by 10 minutes, giving priority to a group of people who havn't even been working out at the facility? THEY HAVE WORKOUTS TO FINISH. They paid alot of money (like ~$1000 for 32 sessions or something), I am not cutting shit short. I will give THEM priority. But nah, Pete came back, scolded me for it, said never to question her etc, so I was like:
"PEACE OUT MAYNE."
He told me I burned my bridges etc, wouldn't ever get a reference from him etc. I replied, "don't need your reference."
"ADIOS."
I'm not down with people who put the bottom-line before the athletes, I'd rather work at mcdonalds.
All those facilities or coaches who put the money before the athletes, can kiss my ass. It's about getting results, not creating an illusion of AMAZINGLY-AWESOME-TRAINING, getting that initial investment, then focusing on the next potential victims. When you have a big, insane looking facility, it's so ez to charge ALOT and get tons of clients. The look & feel of a place makes people automatically trust it & drop those $$.
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