Pwinsider reported some details on how things have been at WWE Headquarters since Vince McMahon’s resignation and Triple H taking over creative, as well as Stephanie McMahon and Nick Khan being named co-CEOs.
It was said the change to the new management team has energized the WWE locker room and the production team. There is a balance of employees having a life outside of the company vs. their work responsibilities, which wasn’t the case under Vince.
There was a feeling that with Vince, you had to work as many hours as he did, and you should never “turn off your cell phone because the further up the corporate ladder you were, the more likely you’d be fielding calls at all hours of the night.”
With the new management, that level of stress has lessened, and the belief under the new management is that employees have settled into a new groove where they can do their job but not feel that “level of stress” that used to exist and not feel guilty if they leave the office at a normal hour.
There’s a far better balance of work life vs. real life outside of WWE for the employees, at least right now.
Employees now feel they can have conversations with top executives if they run into them in the hallway, while with Vince, one person stated they, “knew running into Vince was like running into the T-Rex from Jurassic Park, you didn’t want to call attention to yourself.”
There’s now room for staffers to breathe, enjoy working there and know that it doesn’t need to be their “unending purpose in life”, as the same staffer described. It’s been a far more positive working experience of late.
Regarding the creative team, it is said to be a night and day difference. They are no longer “hurrying up to wait” for Vince meetings that start hours late or focus on small, “unimportant things” for long periods of time.
The meetings are more streamlined and regimented, and there’s a feeling that by not wasting so much time, the team has been far less “worn out by the grind” and can focus more on creative pitches and longer-form ideas.
There’s a feeling that they are building a foundation of being proactive and building for the future. The source said,
“There are re-writes as part of the process, but it’s very rarely a situation where everything is nuked, and they are racing against the clock the day of the broadcasts to come up with new ideas, one of the reasons why endless rematches have disappeared from Raw and Smackdown.”
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