Don’t tell me you have never been on social media during company time.
No, seriously.
We all know someone who watches movies and/or TV shows at their desk. Do you wear a pair of headphones (what are the kids calling them nowadays, anyway? Airbuds? Like the dog? Whatever) and listen to music or podcasts while typing your reports?
Of course you do!
And you’re, what, pushing 60 now?
Yet you’re all bothered that a bunch of teenagers who aren’t going to play football games this year have a television on in the locker room.
Oh, that’s right. You’re not actually bothered by it. If you were, you wouldn’t do what you do at work.
Sam Pittman was disappointed, but not angry, about his players watching TV during halftime of the Auburn game Saturday. Why? Because the players watching it were not playing in the game.
Getting mad at them for doing that is like getting mad at the freshman high-school basketball team for playing on their phones during the varsity game. In other words, that’s just kind of what young people do.
Pittman handled it like he should have. He used it as a learning lesson for the player who shared the video that spread on social media, another sign that Pittman is a leader of men.
He may not be the leader you want at Arkansas. But, don’t kid yourself, especially if you’ve ever ducked out early.