Before I begin this blog, I want to extend my congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs on not only winning a third Super Bowl in 4 years, but also for becoming an NFL Dynasty of the 2020’s. Although I picked San Francisco to win, I’ve learned that you can’t just bet against Kansas City so easily.
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Now, while I am impressed for the Chiefs, I do however want to bring up a situation that involved star Tight End Travis Kelce during last night’s game. Towards the end of the first half, Kelce got so heated that he literally pushed head coach Andy Reid while screaming in his ear.
Watching this, I couldn’t help but wonder to myself that while the National Football League is a game, it’s also a job where you have a salary and are expected to act in accordance with the guidelines of your job. Think of Andy Reid as like a supervisor in a workplace environment and Travis Kelce is the disgruntled employee. If Coach Reid makes a decision, you have to abide by it whether you like it or not.
In my 17 years of retail, I have been fortunate to have not witnessed any physical or verbal threats towards anyone. Even though I may not always agree with anyone in the workplace, I certainly try to keep my thoughts to myself by any means necessary.
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But going back to Travis Kelce himself, I have talked about him not too long ago with how he and Taylor Swift should serve as an example of workplace distractions. In this case, what Travis Kelce did was a complete opposite of how a worker is supposed to behave on the job. Now, I did get some feedback from several of my followers who are Kansas City Chiefs fans and their response was that Travis is not whom we make him out to be.
That is true, but also alluding to my previous blog on how being Jekyll and Hyde can be related to the workplace, it’s clear to me that Travis Kelce was having that Jekyll and Hyde mentality. Playing in something like the National Football League can make someone into Dr. Jekyll in one moment and Mr. Hyde in the next.
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The fact is, we want to see everyone as Dr. Jekyll, but if we see someone as Mr. Hyde, then we are making enemies and not friends with that person. Plus, there is also the matter of not letting the heat of the moment add fuel to the fire.
There is another saying here called “Don’t Poke the Bear” or in this case, “Don’t Push the Bear.” Even if you are on the winning side of something, if you poke or push the bear whether it would be the manager, supervisor or a colleague, you are only setting yourself up for backlash and criticism in the workplace environment. In a way, the bear was poked or pushed last night whether on the field or amongst NFL fans. Travis Kelce was an employee who got so passionate about his job, he poked the bear in the form of his head coach.
Still, like all the other similar blogs I post, this should serve as a warning to neurodivergents that are either employed, in school or in everyday life that if you behave like what we saw from Travis Kelce last night, everything I say will play out live in front of you.
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Catch you all later!!
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