Sens hire Jim Little as CEO and now he's fired...

[Grizwald]

This news shocks me! SAID. NO ONE. EVER!

Mickey Mouse Organization.

 

[SPF6ty9]

‘conduct inconsistent with core values...!.’
Oh boy here weee go... been awhile since a major shitstorm hit.
So Poll:
Worse or less worse than the infamous Buffalo shuttle incident ?

He probably didn't want to have to throw out his own trash or take his turn watering the office plant and Melnyk had enough.

 

[swiftwin]

How many mooches was that?

 

[Zorf]

*knocks on door*

"Come in"

"Hi Mr. Melnyk. Jim Little here. I was just wondering about my pay? It's been 2 months and it hasn't come in yet."

"GET OUT! YOU'RE FIRED!"

"For what? Not getting paid?"

"Yes! Demanding pay for your job is inconsistent with the core values of this organization! Also, I used your salary to pay my pilot..."

"You what?"

"GET OUT! I'M CURRENTLY TWEETING ABOUT YOUR DISMISSAL!"

"Don't we have a tweet guy?"

"I fired him for asking for his pay too...in, hey Jim, before you go, what's a hashtag?"

"Feel free to suck my little Jim, Eugene."


*door slams*

/end scene

 

[Gil Gunderson]

You know it's really bad when it's inconsistent with the "core values" of this organization.

 

[DueDiligence]

This is incredible. He lasted what? A month. This organization is a disaster.

It doesn't sound like EM and Little had a falling out and he got fired.
Considering the time frame I would guess it had to be along the lines of inappropriate language or contact with another employee. Nowadays that gets you marched out the door really fast!

 

[otown]

Le Cirque du Sens continues!

 

[BatherSeason]

It doesn't sound like EM and Little had a falling out and he got fired.
Considering the time frame I would guess it had to be along the lines of inappropriate language or contact with another employee. Nowadays that gets you marched out the door really fast!

Maybe he took a swing at old Eugene? That would do it, and it would probably get him a key to the city as well.

 

[BankStreetParade]

This is so bizarre. What in the world happened? I hope we find out. Could easily be the type of thing that gets covered by NDAs.

 

[foggyvisor]

LOLOloloLOLOLololOLOLOlol

to all the people heaping praises on the org for hiring this guy. When will you ever learn.

 

[Tighthead]

This is my favorite part of the press release:

“The Board of Directors of the Ottawa Senators Hockey Club today announced that Jim Little has been released from his duties as Chief Executive Officer. The decision was made as a result of conduct inconsistent with the core values of the Ottawa Senators and the National Hockey League,” the team said in a written statement.

Is Melnyk the sole director?

 

[DaveMatthew]

Hahaha!!!

Things are looking up!

 

[Emerica]

Melnyk couldn't let James Dolan one up him

 

[DueDiligence]

Typical Sens.

I guess we'll find out if Little was fired because the team had an issue with him or if they hired a dude who committed some inappropriate act (in which case, good job on the character/reference checks).

Brdyen was poor but this org is beyond a poopshow at this point. It's like they are incapable of doing the basics properly.

I love how you slam the Senators without knowing any of the facts. Maybe in this case the Sens did the right thing.
Little had a great track record but who knows what skeletons were in his closet.

 

[Masked]

This is my favorite part of the press release:

“The Board of Directors of the Ottawa Senators Hockey Club today announced that Jim Little has been released from his duties as Chief Executive Officer. The decision was made as a result of conduct inconsistent with the core values of the Ottawa Senators and the National Hockey League,” the team said in a written statement.

I was never aware such a thing existed. My guess is that its Melnyk, Dorion and Dorion's reflection in his iPad.

I've never heard of it before. There's no mention on the Senators website. But there's also no profile of Melnyk on the website either.

 

[DaveMatthew]

I love how you slam the Senators without knowing any of the facts. Maybe in this case the Sens did the right thing.
Little had a great track record but who knows what skeletons were in his closet.

Maybe they should vet candidates, then?

When shit like this keeps happening over and over, it's pretty fair to slam the organization. They should get ZERO benefit of doubt at this point.

 

[foggyvisor]

At this point, why hire anyone? You know whoever you are getting was passed on by every credible business in Canada.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

So do Melnyk's values meet these core values?

 

[Grizwald]

"The decision was made as a result of conduct inconsistent with the core values of the Ottawa Senators and the National Hockey League."

An organization owned by Eugene Melnyk has core values? Who knew?

 

[DueDiligence]

Maybe they should vet candidates, then?

When shit like this keeps happening over and over, it's pretty fair to slam the organization. They should get ZERO benefit of doubt at this point.

You ever hire anybody?
Sometimes you think you have a great candidate, you do all the checks and after hiring them something bad surfaces. It happens.
In light of all the issues I give the Senators a little benefit of doubt. Not much, but a little.

 

[BatherSeason]

Little had a great track record but who knows what skeletons were in his closet.

A multi-million dollar organization should have been well aware of these skeletons before offering him the position. Obviously some things slip through the cracks, but after the Rick Lee debacle, if I am the Ottawa Senators, I am turning over every rock when conducting interviews and background checks. Either way this turns out, the Ottawa Senators have once again proven to be the world's most unstable sports organization.

 

[FormentonTheFuture]

You ever hire anybody?
Sometimes you think you have a great candidate, you do all the checks and after hiring them something bad surfaces. It happens.
In light of all the issues I give the Senators a little benefit of doubt. Not much, but a little.

yeah it seemed like everyone loved the guy. Not going to bother speculating what happened if anything, that's not fair to him. We'll probably never know anyway.

 

[DaveMatthew]

You ever hire anybody?
Sometimes you think you have a great candidate, you do all the checks and after hiring them something bad surfaces. It happens.
In light of all the issues I give the Senators a little benefit of doubt. Not much, but a little.

I've never hired anyone for a very high profile job to lead my organization, trotted them out in front of the media to tell everyone that everything has changed and he's the right person to lead everything forward, and then fired him two months later, no.

What other NHL team has done that?

 

[BatherSeason]

Sometimes you think you have a great candidate, you do all the checks and after hiring them something bad surfaces. It happens.

Given their track record, do you truly believe this?

 

[DaveMatthew]

Gary Bettman at the GM meeting: "It's not what you think" and called it an "internal operations decision".

From that comment, clearly not some "terrible" skeletons in a closet.

My guess is Little was actually honest with Melnyk.