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In the world of internet sports fandom analysis, every sport\u2019s offseason is often pocked with discussions on the player(s) that everyone\u2019s favorite teams should want to acquire, whether it\u2019s through a trade or free agency.\u00a0 It\u2019s a thankless and pointless black hole of exercises, because in the grand spectrum of things, the chances of a professional sporting franchise actually utilizing the opinions of a bunch of internet armchair general manager tough guys is probably pretty slim, and what it really amounts to is a bunch of dudes on the internet vying to see who might actually be right about theories or predictions.<\/span><\/p>\n Among one of the more predominant tropes of internet sports arguing is the dreaded injury risk<\/strong> player.\u00a0 As the name insinuates, these are professional athletes who have a reputation of getting injured frequently, and therefore not capable of playing the kids games in which they\u2019re contracted for large sums of money to perform.\u00a0 These are often times players capable of above average talent when they\u2019re healthy, but the constant fear of them getting hurt and providing zero ROI is significant of a deterrent to actually jeopardize their employment chances.<\/span><\/p>\n A good example of an injury risk player is linebacker Jadeveon Clowney.\u00a0 This guy is an absolute monster defenseman who is capable of altering an opponent\u2019s entire offensive scheme just to mitigate his impact; that is, when he\u2019s actually playing, and not on injured reserve, nursing a laundry list of injuries throughout his seven year career that\u2019s enabled him to play a full 16-game season only once.<\/span><\/p>\n Pitcher Stephen Strasburg is also another good example, as sure, he\u2019s helped the Nationals win a World Series sure, but from a business standpoint, the guy isn\u2019t glass fragile as he once was, but can be assured to miss at least a month every single season with some sort of really questionable (pussy) injuries.\u00a0 He\u2019s made 30 starts in a season just three times in his eleven year career, and someone I\u2019d definitely classify as an injury risk player.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The thing is, sports aren\u2019t the only arena in which injury risk people exist.\u00a0 Frankly, if you think about what professional sports are, they\u2019re jobs, places of employment.\u00a0 Just like businesses like Target, Chick Fil-A, or Ikea.\u00a0 Just like places of employment like AT&T, Wells Fargo, Blue Cross Blue Shield, AutoTrader.\u00a0 They\u2019re businesses where the people that work there are on teams, and are individual contributors.\u00a0 And when you boil it down to such raw components, there\u2019s not really that much different between professional athletes and people who work in corporate America.<\/span><\/p>\n That all said, let\u2019s get down to it: injury risks are everywhere, and if you\u2019re reading this, you can probably think of one or two that exist in your own working life.\u00a0 Hell, you<\/em> might be the injury risk player for your team of employment.\u00a0 I most certainly am not the injury risk of my team of employment, because I have an old school mentality of being a tough motherfucker who shows up to work every day and is very staunch and resistant to use sick time unless it\u2019s very necessary, or in one aspect where I\u2019ve changed, if I\u2019m a jeopardy to the health of those whom might be around me.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, if it\u2019s not clear to what spawned this brog post, it\u2019s the fact that there\u2019s an injury risk player on my team.\u00a0 On a personal level, they are perfectly good people, and I like them.\u00a0 We shoot the shit about college football occasionally, and they\u2019ve got a decent wit.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t change the fact that almost on a weekly basis, there\u2019s always something that comes up, that they need to burn a sick day, or say they need to lie down\/snooze for a little bit longer, or some reason why they need to not be in the game, during game time.\u00a0 I realize that this person is basically, an injury risk to my particular place of employment.<\/span><\/p>\n When they go down, production is slowed, as their subordinates and counterparts have to scramble a little bit to fill in the gaps of their absence.\u00a0 The work always gets done, but not without the elevation of effort from others, when they themselves should be the ones doing it, but that\u2019s what injury risks are \u2013 hampering towards the greater team goals.<\/span><\/p>\n Like I said, I imagine anyone reading this knows an injury risk or several at their own places of work.\u00a0 It has no bearing on their personalities, their likeability or their conduct in our out of the workplace, but at some point, their frequent absenteeism becomes a nuisance, and unlike in the world of sports, most workplaces can\u2019t really bullshit their way to justify cutting them loose.\u00a0 But if appropriate background checks were ever conducted by employers, I\u2019d like to hypothesize that a worker\u2019s injury history would be useful at determining whether or not a potential hire would be genuinely an asset, or someone who could potentially hamper a team with their constant ailments.\u00a0 If I were ever a big mean boss, I\u2019d like to think that I\u2019d consider such things when it came to assembling a team.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the world of internet sports fandom analysis, every sport\u2019s offseason is often pocked with discussions on the player(s) that everyone\u2019s favorite teams should want to acquire, whether it\u2019s through a trade or free agency.\u00a0 It\u2019s a thankless and pointless black hole of exercises, because in the grand spectrum of things, the chances of a … Continue reading The corporate workplace injury 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