MLB needs to take a stand against unsafe workplace environments (3/3)
Nothing Personal with David Samson
David Samson
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🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | That's just the way it is. Some things will never change. Bruce Harnesby is the word of the day, |
| 0:21.3 | or the way it is is the word of the day. Today is Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021. Some things |
| 0:28.5 | just are even though they don't have to be. I think it's time that we changed. If you listen |
| 0:35.8 | to that song, that song by Bruce Harnesby called the way it is, that's just the way it is. |
| 0:40.8 | That's a song that requires some thinking and requires some understanding, and it requires some change. |
| 0:47.7 | The reason why we chose it for word of the day today is there's updated news on Mickey Calaway, |
| 0:53.2 | the angel's pitching coach, former manager of the New York metropolitan's, former pitching |
| 1:01.7 | coach for the Cleveland Indians. There is a culture in baseball, there is a culture in sports, |
| 1:09.0 | there's a culture in business, there's a culture in life, this is not about sports, this is not |
| 1:13.7 | a sports topic. There is a culture that exists that requires cover-ups. There's a culture that |
| 1:22.1 | exists that requires people to be afraid or ashamed to come forward until they have comfort in |
| 1:28.5 | numbers. Regardless, is it harassment, sexually sexual in nature? Is it something having to do |
| 1:37.0 | with financial and propriety? It doesn't matter what it is when you work for a company, |
| 1:41.7 | and you've got a job to do. You are hesitant to stand up and say no, something is wrong. |
| 1:47.4 | The United States passed laws to protect people called whistleblower laws. There are tremendous |
| 1:55.8 | rules in labor relations, the National Labor Relations Board. Your Human Resources Department |
| 2:04.3 | knows all about them, about when someone comes to Human Resources, says something about your |
| 2:11.1 | boss, someone above them, a person of power, that there's some sort of harassment, some sort of |
| 2:16.1 | unpleasant working condition. There are rules and laws that protect that person. That's what's |
| 2:22.6 | written on the page. In real life, it doesn't work that way. When you run an organization, |
| 2:30.2 | you do what you have to do to do what's right, but you do what you have to do to keep the ship |
| 2:35.0 | selling down the river. The problem happens when you cover up for someone, you tell them don't do |
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