Jim Cornette on Linda McMahon's 1996 Memo On WWE Cost Cutting
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- From Episode 292 of the Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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Only Corny would frame a job offer as a “double cross” 😂
Yeah when he called Vince's job offer a double cross, that made me laugh lol
The WCW booking committee double crossed him and the Midnight and got them re-signed lol
@@alvin_PNG yeah, but he hates Jim Herd. He said he doesn't personally hate Vince McMahon.
Same. Laughing as I write this. Lol
Linda is the one McMahon that needs to release a tell all book.. it would be an instant best seller lol
Vince probably made her sign a nda😂
@@yasharahla7297 lmao.. FACTS.. LOL
She for sure has has first lady vibes.
That's the world we live in hoping and praying that she writes a tell all book snitching on her family while making people feel terrible in ruining reputations and lives and everything all for our entertainment aint that great? Jesus
I'm hoping she does it after Vince goes. I cannot imagine all the shit that she knows.
In 1996, working at a large telecom in Denver, we had a new VP come into our building (2,500 employees) and after they determined that the company was spending over $7,000 a month on "free" coffee for the employees, it went away. God forbid some corporate leaders take a pay cut. It's always the rank and file getting the shaft.
You’re right. I worked at a place that manufactured leg braces for pediatric patients. They brought in this smarmy efficient expert right out of Office Space and I knew we were all f’d. And we were.
Buy your own coffee commie
That's pretty bad when the water coolers are being taken out
They were being put in, they were taking away bottled water.
@@paulheap1982 Oh I see
Water coolers being taken out was later on in 96
I worked for this place and they brought in this efficiency expert. It was like Office Space. Reminds me of this.
These are the stories we want to hear Jim talk about
"He turned into Adolph Pritchard" hahaha😆😂
Jim talking about double cheeseburger with extra cheese never gets old.
Fried or broiled, the cow must die!
@@robertnapier624 Wish we had a Omnibus of Jim talking just about things that involved cheeseburgers with extra cheese LOL
Double cheeseburger, extra cheese. double mayo, double onions, m0th*rf*ck*r!
Extra cheeeeeeeze...nothing else on it. Didn't know whether to fix it or nawwwt?? We woudn't have ordered it if we didn't want it fixed, gawdamn!!!
I've said it before and I'll say it again, cheeseburger is the funniest word in the english language, don't ask me why, it just is
"Kelly Girls" is what I believe they used to be called. They were named for the staffing agency Kelly Services.
🎯🎯💯 thank you!!
Yup. Company still around; but they stopped using that term decades ago.
@@jeffnettleton3858 yup. I worked there from 2013-2016
@@brooklynbeast5594 yup.
Funny fact, Gene Simmons was a Kelly Girl. 😆 seriously. He worked for them before he made it with Kiss.
Having worked for several large corporations, this is all very familiar to me. Typical corporate crap
And that's why you are not a CEO of a 500 company because of the mindset you have
@@attiepollard7847 Why would I want to be a CEO? I'd rather do something worthwhile
@@Phantasia_Workshop son whatever you are doing is not worth wild enough or else we the people would know no about it
@@attiepollard7847 know*
I was worked for the largest concert production company in the U. S. The CEO was earning $100M per year.
The company put forth similar cuts. Saved them $35K per.
"God damn double cheeseburger with double cheese" 😂😂😂
Pickles, onions if you please!
"Listeners complain they can't hear anything" as they complain about their hired help for the 500th time lol
The Mean Street Posse was there after dark. 😂
Nope! Still cuttin' back....
Say, 'Hello' to the:
"Mean Street Receptionist", straight outta Greenwich, Connecticut.
And Doink was Pennywise!!
I’d love to see a workplace comedy of the wwe offices in the 90s
The birth of corporate lingo
Cross train equals cut staff and give the rest more shit lol
My grandmother had an office job at a garage in Jax and I remember what it was like watching her sending emails back then.
These stories are great
I work for a pretty major company, and all of these rules are pretty much standard.
Nowadays yes bcuz corporations have ruined our country & they try to save every nickle. Whereas back then employers used to care about their employees comfort bcuz they wanted people to stay 20-40yrs at their job. Now corporations have decided that 3-5yrs is all they want someone to stay. They'd rather train someone new, which allows them to save money by giving the new person starting pay instead of having someone stay for yrs & start making top pay doing the same job
@@nolongerblocked6210 exactly
Gay Rambo works for a major company? I'm not so sure being a mercenary for the Village People, Cambodian wing counts as a major company - but what do i know about being Gay Rambo?!
@@nolongerblocked6210 nope. Your pathetic liberal views ever on this country of hating the rich
I wonder if Vince listens to Jim & Brian’s podcast….. 😂
To be honest a lot of them listen to them on their free time or down time.. Old and Young..
LOL you marks are hilarious - you seriously think MOST people even know wrestling podcasts exist…much less billionaires listening to them 🤦🏼♀️
@@jimmyjohnson3149 no mark here! Just a comment! The point is, boy, there is a world outside of Vince’s clearly perverted and rotting billionaires mind!
When a company that you work for starts doing this its your cue to get your resume ready because its going south from there.
That s**t was going on at my workplace in the 90’s and early 2000’s. By 2007 they stopped all pay raises. Finally in 2020 they laid us all off. Their favorite phrase was “we all (really just us) have to do more with less. “ which is ultimately impossible.
So WWF is in terrible financial situation in 95 and Cornette went to Vince for money for his organization, then said he double crossed me and offered me a job. What a horrible double cross
I'm having visions of Corny being a George Costanza at Titan Towers.
Profits = unearned wages
The sheer disgust in Jim’s voice when he talk about how everyone in Titan Towers ordered healthy food fucking kills me.
Typical conservative republican economical behavior. Less for the little people, less than less for the little little people, more for the boss. Cut costs for my yacht
This isn't political dude, they were legit struggling to keep things going back then.
@@TheFailedmessiah better believe Vince and Linda were still SET and filthy rich in 95/96. They just didn't want to pump more of their own cash into their business
Sounds like a city run by the other side of the isle. More homeless tents, crime and drugs than buildings.
@@smarkslowplay3512 it's better than with Joe biden's doing right spending up lots of money overheating the economy and and putting on perfetic regulations that is hurting the working man
@@attiepollard7847how is it better? Stupid reply. Keep voting red and getting poorer and poorer while the rich get richer and richer
😂🍔 🍔 🍔 🍟 😅This period at the office needs to be the new office show
I actually love Brian Last hes brilliant his laugh is evil
Adolf Pritchard, lol. 😂
More finance talk! More! It's genuinely so interesting to hear about the batshit intricacies of the silly money in this business
At least they weren't still paying Hogan
Jim- you’re the worst and the best at the same time. You’re omni-commentary. 🎉
Linda wasn't much of an on air talent. That short hairstyle and that boring monotone voice was all wrong for the attitude era.
Vince had the most stage presence by far and Stephanie is talented too. Shane was ok on tv and Linda was boring.
I actually liked her Persona. It was the exact opposite of Vince. It was like she was the good one who brought a little sanity to WWE every once in awhile.
@@mistermann3225 Robo-Linda had zero screen presence. None whatsoever.
Was this “spending cut” a result too Vince being taken to court and almost imprisoned for the steroid trial? We’re they trying to save money, since they paid a small fortune on legal fees? Why were they saving money like this then?
Nope. 1995 to 1996 was not a good year for pro wrestling as a hole
“Kelly Girls” 18:00
So I guess HHH waited to spit water out after they didn't have to pay for it. So no water no game 😆 some don't realize how close WCW came to being the only game in town. Way before the Monday night war WWF almost went out of business. Vince was letting wrestlers go just stop paying their contracts like Bret Hart, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash,. The gates were awful .WWE didn't win any war they just survived long enough to be the only one left standing.
I have a few years of revenue reports from wwf/wwe for the past 30 years. Interesting to see....
In 90's there was pretty good song using copesthetic the internet said then, but now it's copacetic again like some people claimed, which is little wacky.
Cut security, surely just wait for the APA
"OH C'MON".....😂😂😂
This is very interesting i didn't know about this lol
Sounds like when Linda's divorce was starting!! Hence why my ex lives in Hawaii 🤠 This reminds me of the Eric story of Jim Herd!!.
@@williammitchell4417 that's very interesting
@@benespinosa6725 Quoting Arte Johnson 🤔 I just saw a clip from Laugh In!! I love RUclips!!!😁
@@williammitchell4417 lol
Table of Authority would be a great stable name.
Copasetic. That's word that I've learnt from this video.
Kelly Girls
Jim, u may be talking about Girl Tuesday.
At one time I would over look these podcast. And I started listening 🎧 absolutely precious.
Would it be the Steno Pool?
I actually remember meeting the receptionist for the first time in Stamford when I had an appointment with Vince. She was nice, but clueless as to who I was and could not keep records for the life of it. I drove hundreds of miles just to turn around and getting a call from Vince asking why I never showed up. I told him to hire someone who had matching brains to the face and tits on her because she did not have my info that day in April. I don't know whatever happened to her, but I know why she was hired there - and being eye candy with big knockers does not make up for common sense working behind the brown walnut desk and marble floor...
Vince was probably smashing her allegedly but YOU NEVER KNOW
@@herecomesdatrain😂😂😂😂😂😂I like how u remembered to put in allegedly
May I ask what the meeting was about?
@@hagipilo5017 about three minutes.. oh wait.. did i say... three minutes!!?
Weird comment ...
Did all this nickel and diming even save a dollar?
they traded NWO for Mick, Dustin, Mero, Simmons, etc Etc ETC
I think molly maid is what jim is looking for.
Pritler 😂😅
Adolf Prichard 😭😭😭
Jim “whatever the fuck” Cornette
It's gonna be hilarious when whatever skeletons Brian Last keeps in his closet finally come out.
Adolf Prichard
😂
Was Jim thinking of Kelly Girls?
Ooh the irony of jim saying Ct is over priced. Does he know why it's so over priced I wonder?
Lack of self awareness
Population density will usually do that lol.
Right. It couldn't possibly be the policies of the folks in charge there.
@@FilmThePoliceFTP Goddammit! Every time with you whiny MAGAmorons in these comments! Guess who was the Governor of Connecticut in 1995/1996 and during Jim's entire time he lived in the state? John G. Rowland, a Republican. Guess who won the majority in the State senate in 1994? The Republicans. Guess who the Lieutenant Governor was? VinnyMac's crony and "close personal friend" Republican Jodi Rell - Rowland's successor as governor, her next public office which she used to fight against a minimum wage in Connecticut, tooth and nail.
Rowland had to resign in 2004 because he was impeached for corruption and went to prison in 2005.
Linda went on to work for some serial rapist and bank fraud from New York. The twice-impeached double loser of the popular vote who sold the top secrets of the United States to VinnyMac's other "close personal friend", Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, ruler of Saudi Arabia.
@@FilmThePoliceFTP nope has nothing to do with policies. It's a small state with a lot of people. A lot of People live in Connecticut because it's a cheap North east corridor for places such as NY. He's comparing it to parts of the South or midwest where the cost of living is lower because generally speaking it's sparse in comparison because frankly the demand to live in those places isn't close to the same.
I think Jim was referring to hiring a "Girl Friday". A term used way back in the day for temporary office assistants.
Contrast this to government's reaction when funds are tight. The first, and only, cuts government makes are to the services to the "customer". The people in government WILL get paid. MAYBE they would cut back on a fringe benefit. MAYBE. This security and lack of accountability is why government quickly gets filled with a bunch of losers.
Linda would seem like a lady that would be a good conversation, if the Warrior loved her, then she is cool
Lol, right, right.
Linda sent Corny a bill for the picture of Vince in the announcer uniform
Brian last and corny are just bitter no matter what they do in the wresting biz, they'll never ever get to make coat cutting decisions of that amount in the wrestling biz 😂
Ahh when they were still listening to Jim and Bruce's outdated ideas. Thank goodness Russo was about to save the day or you might not have had a WWF going into 1997.
These are extremely routine items. How tedious. The fake laughter is even more tedious.
I remember having to reimburse for personal phone calls and going through my phone logs, even though I was an executive at the company I work for. This is all just routine when your company is struggling to pinch pennies.
These guys must not have worked a legitimate job in their lives.
Brian has. But I think Corny has been in wrestling since his teens...
"The fake laughter is even more tedious." Your whining is even more so.
🤡
Last was a music industry exec but Cornette has been involved in wrestling since 18 or so. Good for you being a smarmy clown though
@@mistermann3225 Noted; then Last is merely being a phony just for podcasting purposes. Laaaaaaaazy podcasting.
Jim talking about the fried food story was such a great visual laugh! I can just picture all those ass kissers and FAKE humans trying to be Vince bolting! Lmfao! Jim was prob the realest man Vince had and he should have kept Jim in higher regard! WWF would be a better business probably had he!
I believe the term Corny was struggling to remember is; "Gal Friday"
Nope; Kelly Girl. Gal Friday wasn't a service, just a kind of role, for an assistant.
@jeffnettleton3858 ...did he say it was a service, or just a term to describe a certain role, like "meter maid"?
"He double crossed me and offered me a job!" 😂
Such a Vince thing to do tbh 💀
Yep.. That's the real Vince Mcmahon right there..
Kelly Girls
I've seen cafeterias replaced with vending machines before and it's just the most pitifully sad thing ever in a corporate setting. The convenience cuts (which practically all of these are) are always the easiest & laziest and rarely make a meaningful dent in losses.
Those cafeterias pay rent don't they? Unless you have a plan for the space, wouldn't. Makes no sense to me.
I'm racking my brain to see how the hell you wouldn't break even if this company pays you to use the space. How is it costing you anything to keep the canteen open?
They help meetba metric on a spreadsheet thats about all
Adolf Pritchard 😂
I can imagine Vince rolling up in that car like Scrooge McDuck.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
..scrooge would never have wasted money in p...ss....y
Its probably the same Car from the Ted DiBiase vignettes.
😂 He really is an assh@le 😂
The uninsured and parched WWF employees walked so Senate Failure Linda and Sexual Harassment Vince could run 😭
Seriously underrated comment💯💯
$20 million for some box.
But the ink water and insurance was coming out his ass 😂😂😂
That 20 million "came" out of a different orifice
Vinnie Lupton (McMahon) and Donald Trump have been friends and business associates for decades, they will probably both clients at Epstein Island, I'll never understand how these rich and powerful men have to spend Millions to get laid, and then spend Millions more for the women not to talk about their tiny units😂... Bill Clinton was also a womanizer but it only cost him one cigar😂
Jim could talk about paint drying and it would be fascinating
One of my favorite Jim Cornette stories actually has nothing to do with wrestling. It's the one where he fires Landon, his yard guy.
I love how the very last thing corporations would ever possibly consider cutting costs on is the absurd massive salaries the executives at the very top of the companies make they'd rather just watch the entire company go under than take a paycut themselves the only reason WWE won was because they caught lightning in a bottle with Austin and the Rock
You need those executive salaries because they're also competing against Ted Turner.
They cut management salaries too bro - a few people quit because of it
They cut salaries of a bunch of people, several of them quit because of it. You would do the same if someone cut your salary.
@@fatherfreedom1946 Not the executives. Low level management.
There's something about Jim discussing his time at WWE that is so appealing to me. It seems like a magical moment in time.
"Well, it sure wasn't appealing to ME" -Jim, probably. LOL
He is the ultimate fan- that turned into the best manager ever- or perhaps 1B to Bobby Henan:::
Jim Cornette is absolutely wrestling ROYALTY
We need a comic book adaptation of his wwe years.
@@georgemaranville3305 yeah like behind the curtain. I love hearing about him being in the office or working with Todd Pettingill on LiveWire. Shotgun Saturday Night was an interesting time too. Jim's been everywhere for everything lol
I don't think working with shitstain is a magic moment in time. That's more like a nightmare.
They were close to going out of business back then, but to cut executive salaries and other smaller essentials first, instead of the wrestlers, is saying something. Your executive staff has to really believe in the company to stay.
Bruce needed his daddy
Yeah, I wouldn't be taking a pay cut unless I was getting shares.
Videos of Jim talking about 90s WWF > videos of Jim talking about AEW & todays WWE!
I quit listening to his podcasts regularly because he spends way too much time talking about AEW and current WWE.
Pritchard: Vinny boy, someone has authorised spending more than their spending authority.
Vince: LIIIIINNNDAAA, GET THE TABLE!!!
Imagine a three hour pod of Jim and Linda talking about Vince 🤣🤣 she will have a million stories about that crazy bastard that would break the internet
They might need to link up and make a podcast.. I would listen to them for hours..
The fact that he remembers John steed from The Avengers and what car he drove makes me love him all that much more😊
I love how he can remember shit from 50 years with frightening detail, but has no idea about pop culture from the past 20 years lol
Can u imagine Jim trying to send an email in 1996 😅
Spending 10 minutes finding and pressing one key 😂
@@johnthebomb06 ..so like... now...
@johnthebomb06 I'm gonna say your in accuate cuz I think after 2 minutes that keyboard would go flying across the room 😂
The Goon, Mantaur and TL Hopper weren't paying the bills back then 😂. Then something changed 🤔
I wonder why?? 😂😂😂😂
God WWE sounded like a shit place to work in '96 lol
Moolah wouldn't have serviced McMahon, she'd have sent someone to do it for her.
WCW was kicking Vince's ass so hard on a weekly basis that vince was cutting everything that was possible to cut.
People forget without stone cold and rock and the attitude era wwe was close to dying out right before that era and even tho it led to iconic moments and a great era and wwe winning the monday night wars they were close to losing around that time having cuts then would have been the normal thing to do nowadays cutting staff is corny as wwe has made billions in the last 2 decades and they got no stiff competition
Vince russo helped during that time. Jim hates it. But that crazy crash tv style became well adapted for prowrestling
This wasn't during the time they were losing to WCW
This was during the time all wrestling was slumping.
4:52 that is hilarious to think about. that Vince would actually drive that car around. if some people dont know what Brian is talking about just google "Hogan Vince car"
"It's a secret meeting, pal"
*drives up in a old time hot-rod with WWF painted on the sides*
Hunter paid out of pocket for all those water bottles?
Damn.
LOL!! Yep Hunter's got "water bottle money" 💰
Or maybe he just refilled the same bottle in the brand new water coolers!
Pizza Inn, back in the late 80's, had a hell of a lunch buffet. Have no idea if it still exists now.
We had a pizza inn also, good taco pizza.... Haven't seen one since like 1991
@americasevilgenius Pizza Inn is still around. Although probably with less locations than before, heck I even been there once. The buffet is pretty decent honestly. But like the other guy said, their taco pizza is fantastic.
Yup, I know there are locations in Eastern North Carolina.
Pizza in. Based out of Dallas would run promotions in conjunction with world class wrestling where if you bought a certain sized pizza you got a poster of choice of one of the Von erichs
Just imagining corny in 96 strutting down to the cafeteria to get a god damn double cheeseburger with double cheese is the funniest thing to me🤣
Linda at that one WM when she broke out of her catonic state was epic. I don’t think the fans ever hated Linda
Possibly one of the most satisfying nut shots in wrestling
She was always loved.
Linda was more of the Jack Tunney role. When she showed up on TV you knew something BIG was going down.
They booed her when she told Austin to apologize to the McMahon family, and when she fired JR.
Linda McMahon got a bigger pop back in the day than most wrestlers do today
According to Bruce, McMahon drove a Clenet Coachworks car(s). In the 70s and 80s a small group of people custom built these cars with modern tech/systems, but with the classic look of 1930s luxury cars like Duesenbergs.
But can't have fresh food or insurance for employees pal
I remember Ted Dibiase doing a promo, driving one of those things. A white convertible IIRC.
Never forget: WWE may have taken away the water coolers, but Tim Horner kept the fax machine!!!
FEDEX wasn't likely that large of an expenditure, if they were using it that often. A company like that probably has negotiated rates obtained for them by an account rep. For something like document envelopes, it was probably pretty cheap and the delivery was quicker and more reliable than mailing. For things like checks, it was better security. Purchase order and other expenditure sign-off is standard procedure in most major companies, which suggests they had been too fast and loose with letting people have spending authority and company accounts (cards, POs, etc). Security and cafeteria are more about personnel that they considered expendable. Probably anything not related to wrestling operations and merchandising. Insurance benefits and employee contributions are another easy target, without reducing staff.
This is standard cuts to try to trim what they could control, but wasn't key to their core operation.
It's still real to me DAMNIT!!
These are my favorite JC topics 😂
The term Cornette is thinking of is "Kelly Girl".
THANK YOU
that was bugging me
Linda should be in prison along with Vince!
Why. There is no proof of crime
I think Jim was looking for 'steno pool', or a 'girl Friday'
They must’ve provided 30 concubines and a golden chariot to Stone Cold and Rocky when they saved everyone’s ass lol
Rich people are truly never satisfied. Look at these literal billionaires nickel and diming their employees
to be fair Vince was far from a billionaire in 1995. He lost 5 million that year.
In my mind Linda is as FD up as Vince. Even if she didn't know all, she knew enough. To stick around and call that person your husband, your family. I don't think it's worth all the creature comforts in the world. We are only here for so long, all of us. Vince is a broken human being with more money than most moderate size towns in this nation. But sure that makes sense we can probably stay on this path forever.............