[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by Destor Its not the bookers job to get you over. You get yourself over. The bookers job is to utilize over talent. Danielson was a failure of the booking. He was over and they tried to stop it. But if you're jerking the curtains its for one of two reasons. 1. You didnt get your ass over. 2. The talent is stacked and you didnt get yourself over enough.... maybe 3. You shit in the wrong guys cheerios. Like people getting passed over for promotion. You gotta take ownership of that. You gotta impress your boss not the otherway around. If the booker is having to get you over you should take it as a failure on your part. Its what they pay you to do.

Originally Posted by Destor 10min of tv cost the WWE $45k. Theres a real investment there everytime you go out there. Blaming the office is a joke.

Let me try this again with what I can remember writing:

Monday on RAW, Samoa Joe cut a fantastic promo that positions him as a threat to Brock. Now, Joe could've shit the bed and blew his chance. That would've been on him. My poibt is that what if they never had Joe go out there? He gets beat clean by Brock, killed by an F5, and doesn't have the opportunity to prop himself up the next night. Roman and Heyman/Brock shit on Joe, and they set themselves up for Reigns vs Lesnar... again. How would Joe being diminished here have been his fault?

Remember when Lesnar debuted? You think he would've become the attraction he is today if he was booked the same way Curtis Axel was? Brock comes in, double powerbombs people for 2-3 weeks, then constantly jobs clean, becomes Heyman's meatshield, and made to look like a buffoon? He would've been dead inside of two months no matter how he looks. Would that have been Brock's fault he didn't get over?

Back to Austin 3:16. If the Curtain Call never happened, he never would have won that tournament. If they didn't have allotted time for a coronation (along with the other moving parts like Austin being upset about something Jake supposedly said beforehand), the promo wouldn't have been dropped. No promo, no signs and groundswell. But ultimately, if Vince still saw no value in him outside of being "a good hand", he would have gone on to become yet another midcard-at-best nobody that people would only kinda remember as one half of the Hollywood Blondes. Not seeing how any of that would be Austin's fault for not getting himself over.

How can one seize the moment when they arent given moments to seize? Who cares about how much is spent on tv time? Part of what that time was *supposed* to be for is helping more people get on tv. You can't say nobody is a draw when there are barely opportunities to make new people be perceived as a draw. The company cannot be rotally absolved of this issue in spite of you thinking that is "a joke".

Being passed over for promotion isn't always a simple issue of impressing your boss or not... bosses make mistakes on who they do or don't promote. You could be the most compotent writer, filer, and whatever on your job, but you get passed over because your boss likes how Jane looks in a miniskirt. Has nothing to do with how skilled you potentially are, and you never get the chance to prove it. How is that your fault for not "stepping up"?