Do wrestlers working for the major companies need paid time off?  Or do they instead need to budget the money they are making to take time off like Sasha kind of did?


www.pwmania.com/brother-of-former-wwe-superstar-issues-strong-statement-to-fans

This article inspired this post.  It got me to thinking.  I feel a bit like there is a dollar threshold where you should just be able to look out for yourself.  If you are making a million a year on contract, maybe you should be culpable to pay for your own time off.  Take a month and sail the seas.  If you are making less than your typical office stiff per year it makes more sense that you need some sort of paid time off.

Sept 26, 2019 15:37:48 GMT theend said:

Do wrestlers working for the major companies need paid time off?  Or do they instead need to budget the money they are making to take time off like Sasha kind of did?


www.pwmania.com/brother-of-former-wwe-superstar-issues-strong-statement-to-fans

This article inspired this post.  It got me to thinking.  I feel a bit like there is a dollar threshold where you should just be able to look out for yourself.  If you are making a million a year on contract, maybe you should be culpable to pay for your own time off.  Take a month and sail the seas.  If you are making less than your typical office stiff per year it makes more sense that you need some sort of paid time off.

I was just having a similar conversation with a colleague at work yesterday about a recent project resource hire staffed through an outside firm. The topic was more on OT, but can also include PTO on the same principles.

Anyway... The idea was that a senior project scheduler making apparently the maximum of the range of going rates is non-exempt and should also presumably be so experienced and good/efficienct at his job that he doesn't need to work OT. Certainly isn't entitled to time and a half. And the project isn't paying his time off either. His staffing company figures out that risk and accounts for it in the hourly billing rate they charge the project.

Similar for wrestlers, I think. As soon as downside guarantees became the standard in the industry, I think fuck the notion of PTO as they're technically getting it. See Luke Harper. Sure, you're not making as much as you could be if you were working. But you're also not fucking working! $80K to sit on the couch is better than any PTO deal I've ever heard of.

I do think they need guaranteed/mandated time off; whether it should be paid is probably a matter left to the wrestlers and the company (teachers don't get paid for their summer breaks, though they know that going in and can/should budget accordingly).

Sometimes, for the wrestlers' own health, you probably do need some sort of forced "no, go home, stop taking 30 bumps a night for a couple of weeks and we'll see you when you get back" policy or they'd overwork themselves.

And the company can't be mad at you because hey, you are REQUIRED to take these vacations. Not allowed to work even if you wanted to.