(05-28-2020, 03:50 PM)JKortesi81 Wrote:Nothing is quite like being in Head Office.
Everyone joins up thinking that they're going to really help out the league they love more than most anything in this world, and they're fresh faced and excited.
They do a few simple projects or tasks, and the NSFL Universe smiles on them, the occasional "good work so and so!" and that fuels a larger desire to make bigger changes. Those bigger changes that every single person that's ever joined an HO in any sim league (or at least the three important ones, PBE, SHL, NSFL) have in their heads "I'm going to join, and i'm going to change this and it'll be my mark on the league!"
That bigger change either goes through and it's met with 50%+ of the public shitting on it, OR it doesn't even see the light of day and gets shut down sooner than anticipated. This creates quite the dulling of enthusiasm.
And then, the coup de grace, someone in the public does something stupid. They make a joke that's tampering to some people, they trade a draft pick they don't have, they post 47,023 lewd pictures in a discord, they don't update a player correctly, etc.
The HO makes a ruling, usually based off precedence, that naturally the person who fucked up doesn't like. They then go on a tirade about how they're the best, and its HO's fault that they fucked up and shouldn't be punished, or it wasn't their fault etc.
More of the public decides to champion this cause, and shit on the head office as a whole, as though its their fault someone else broke the rules.
Like Dwyer said, then comes the "HO SHOULDN'T USE PRECEDENCE" arguments, which i agree with. They shouldn't. They should have leeway as each individual case tends to be different each time.
But they can't, because the same shitty people in the public screamed the last time they tried that. "YOU ONLY GAVE SO AND SO *insert lesser punishment for a lesser instance here*!
The Head Office member that once was bright eyed and bushy tailed realizes that their interest in the league isn't what it used to be, and its mainly because of the "Damned if you do, Damned if you dont" reaction from the public.
The HO member either develops a "Go Fuck Yourself, Whatever" attitude towards the negativity and sticks around, or they just bail on HO.
Another bright eyed and bushy tailed Head Office member is hired.
Rinse, and repeat.
Being in head office is fun. You're shit on 90% of the time for things that you may not have even really agreed with in the first place. You're a constant target for vitriol from people who usually have no idea what they're talking about, but their opinion is the only one that's right. If you're not perfect, it'll end up badly for you. Even if you overcome the odds and stick it out, there will always be a small pocket of people who internally think you should be fired for past things, even if you did 1,000 awesome things for the league after the 1 bad thing. It's the worst.
It's like the old saying goes: "A man can build a thousand bridges in his life. But he sucks just one cock, he won't be known as a bridge builder, he'll just be known as a cocksucker".
Props to those that willingly have put themselves through that ringer and got us to this point where the NSFL is pretty great.
bring back 1.5x media dude