SAS caught playing Solitaire during the NBA finals

[Diop]

this is standard for today. most people's attention span has shrunk terribly thanks to mobile phones

[Beethoven]

This is akin to extreme micromanagement at the workplace.
I plan out and organize everything the nite before, knock it out all in the morning to a 'T' , and then some, to help the team, got a half hour prior to lunch so I browse online shopping a bit on my computer and that's when my manager comes walking by.
Of course he makes that a critical point in the next stand-up team meeting he says he doesn't want anyone messing around at work doing online shopping and stuff, ok I get it.. he's pointing the finger at me, but doesn't he realize I'm always doing my work and turning everything in doesn't he realize the numbers at the end of each month, I mean, I get it, we shouldn't technically be browsing online shopping at work, but we are all in the same area and no one but our own dept team walks around our area, you still got to take things out of context, and not give benefit of the doubt, but to always think we are undignified and just a bunch of animatrons always have to "pretend" we're working, nope man. Next time I won't peruse Amazon and bloomingdales on the computer, for the sake of the team I guess, but I'm not going to sit there penalizing myself by pretending to work when I get my work done early and planned out, I'm gonna go take a longer coffee break and go for a walk and browse on my phone. I mean, I get it, perception is necessary sometimes to make a good impression about things and morale, but sometimes it goes over and strips one of their dignity because you'll be criticized for being "toxic" for playing solitair for a few mins during dead time, when the op doesn't have a f*in clue how much work he or I put into our jobs.

[bkkrh]

Do you watch every single second of every game?

No, but it´s not my job to watch games. It would have been a problem in all of my jobs if I would have spent my work time with playing Solitaire.

You never check your phone at work or browse a website, chat with a coworker?

I think the only people who should be throwing stones are people who concentrate 100% of their time on work - which is no one.

Well this depends a bit on the circumstances.

In the last 10 years I work in employee training and management positions. It will definitely not happen that you will catch me playing phone games or browse sites I´m not supposed to browse and so on, because I simply didn't do that, since I always had more work than time for it. Or let´s put it like that, yes I could of course have a private chat or take some breaks, but nobody besides me will take care of the tasks I´m responsible for besides me and I don´t get paid by the hour, but it was expected that certain things are taken care of until a certain point. And that goes for a lot of jobs. I work now as a freelancer, so yes theoretically I can chill as much as I want, but I also won't earn money.

I am also aware that based on my past roles there were sometimes higher expectations towards me than for a normal employee. So I won't be the guy that gets totally hammered at the christmas party, or the guy that is caught not paying attention during a meeting or a client visit and so on. Things that wouldn´t be a big deal for a normal employee, or maybe resut in a slap on the wrist will definitely be viewed different if you are in a leadership role.

I also had of course in the past jobs with some dead air, or where I was trying to do the least possible amount of work. Even then I definitely wouldn't play a game on my phone during a meeting or in an open office space, unrelated to what my job role would be. I find it pretty logical that this doesn't look very good, even if I don´t have urgent work to do.

Now if I'm one of the most well known Basketball analysts in the world and I'm also a person that is viewed pretty controversial, I'd expect that there is a good chance that some of the people might pay attention to my behaviour in public. So if I'm currently in a stadium watching the NBA Finals I wouldn't play mobile games. I would probably just use my phone either work related or maybe for something like calling my family. Not for playing a game that pretty much every person in the world only knows because they played it themselves as a time waster when they were currently stuck in some boring school class or meeting.

Personally I'd think that this could be spun into me not fully being interested or invested in the game. Which might be understandable during a Summer League game, but shouldn't be the case during the most important games of the season, especially when there is already the small market narrative ongoing. Or lets put it like this. Similar to Shaq I also do toilet breaks during work. I still wouldn't do them when I´m supposed to give a presentation, or at least not turn it into some bit in case I couldn´t really hold it any longer.

[benson13]

I'm a Houston Texans season ticket holder, and I play Clash Royale at every single game. The more beer I drink the worse I do.

[NoStatsGuy]

Do you watch every single second of every game?

No.

But I don’t get paid millions to analyse games and we’re talking about the biggest games on the calendar.

what if it was a timeout, TV break or anything else? what are you analyzing then?

i dislike SAS and his loudmouth as much as the next guy, but cmon now

[CoP]

Everyone is overreacting. He still has the free version and was watching basketball during the mobile ads, so he still caught most of the game.

[-Luke-]

I play solitaire and minesweeper during my work day as well, so who am I to criticize.

If anything, playing some old school game like solitaire instead of Candy Crush or whatever people play nowadays makes him more likeable.

[Deathray]

Do you watch every single second of every game?

No.

But I don’t get paid millions to analyse games and we’re talking about the biggest games on the calendar.

what if it was a timeout, TV break or anything else? what are you analyzing then?

i dislike SAS and his loudmouth as much as the next guy, but cmon now

It was during play. There's video of it.

[syrus3]

If I had to watch a free throw contest, I’d play Solitaire too.

[bovice]

I'm not mad at it. okc's offense is boring

[CodeBreaker]

This was during halftime

[jkvonny]

If I had to watch a free throw contest, I’d play Solitaire too.

[bovice]

OP is probably the type of manager to yell at his employees for checking a text message while on the clock. chill out bro, it's not that srs

[cgf]

Is anyone surprised that SAS doesn't actually care about basketball? He doesn't need to pay attention to troll people who do

[Bergmaniac]

Why bother to watch, his job has almost nothing to do what happens on the court, it's to shout hot takes based on what's trending on social media.

[ChumboChappati]

Read on Twitter

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And people wonder why the NBA media is so toxic. Maybe stop handing out millions to grifters who don't like basketball

can you blame him? its very boring finals; both teams don't deserve to be here

[druggas]

OMG. He should be sentenced to watching reruns of "Days of our lives".

[CometGM]

Why are some of you people concerned about his job and how much money he gets paid to do it? You can't stand him, don't watch it. These type of posts reeks of jealousy and hatred since are baseless. Sometimes you need a mental break to regather yourself and come stronger. Move on.

[jkvonny]

Why are some of you people concerned about his job and how much money he gets paid to do it? You can't stand him, don't watch it. These type of posts reeks of jealousy and hatred since are baseless. Sometimes you need a mental break to regather yourself and come stronger. Move on.

Right!? It could've been worse.

He could've been playing Angry Birds instead. Lol

But seriously, ppl take mental breaks at times.

[Dan33185]

Of all the things to not like Stephen A. Smith for, this is at the bottom