ckparrothead
Premium Member
If your bosses and coworkers depended on you and fashioned their plans around you for accomplishing important firm goals, and you won the lottery and up and quit like you say you would without ensuring that they would all get by without you, that makes you as big an @sshole as Ricky man. Sorry dude. The question isn't "If I got a windfall of money would I quit my job too?"
The reason is because the circumstances are different. Me, I'm not some big huge part of my company's game plan. I'm a small cog. If I wanted to up and quit, 2 weeks notice is all the notice I would need to give in order for everyone to be happy and to give the firm time to replace my production. Its important to keep perspective on this. What Ricky did isn't even the equivalent of me pulling off a surprise quitting without giving 2 weeks notice. The equivalent would be if I was suddenly given a huuuge project that the firm depended on to be even bare minimal successful for the year, a project that affects the entire firm and the wallets of everyone in it, and I eagerly take this project on and take so much of the responsibility that nobody else can come even close to replicating my abilities with the project, and then on the eve of the deadline, or the big presentation, or whatever...I quit. Everything comes to a screeching halt and people's wallets and lives and stress levels are all affected negatively, because I had the audacity to tell them they could trust me, have them give me a bunch of responsibility, and then I quit on them.
Other players on the team, their wallets are going to be affected, trust me. Seth McKinney has a right to be mad. He and the other OL are going to be evaluated based on the success of our offense and our running game, whether Ricky Williams is running the ball or not. Jay Fiedler, if he keeps his job, or AJ Feeley if he wins it, are going to be evaluated based on how they are able to run this offense, regardless of any excuses of our ground game not being good. The ground game sucks and so the QBs have a tougher time, and so the WRs have a tougher time. But when it comes to pay-day, are the negotiators, Rick Spielman and Matt Widmeier and all them going to take a look at their numbers and say "Hey, well, you didn't have very good numbers...but our ground game was aweful so we're going to pay you like the pro bowler you might have been had our ground game been good!"
Likewise even for the defense. When the defense keeps getting tired, because the offense keeps going 3 and out, and players start missing tackles, or teams start moving the ball...are the negotiators going to look and say "Well, you were tired cuz of the offense...we think you would have had a pro bowl year had the offense been better at ball control, so we're going to pay you accordingly"
Or wait, even worst, we lose a bunch of games cuz Ricky is gone, but the defense was good the whole time...but still, the FO begins to realize now more than ever that we need to take money away from the D and pour it onto the O. And, as a result, Sam Madison gets cut. Or, Zach Thomas gets cut. Or, we say bye to Tim Bowens earlier than we might have.
A bad season, leads to all sorts of bad consequences and bloodletting. Ricky put this team in a position to possibly have a very bad season. He affected the wallets of his teammates by timing it the way he did. If I were them, I would punch him the first time I saw him.
