I guess since there's nothing left to sell, they all got the boot. Talk about unintended consequences.

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With the arrival of Lebron James, the Miami Heat rapidly sold out all their season tickets. That turned out to be bad news for the ticket-sales staff, which was fired Friday.
In a statement, the Heat confirmed the dismissals Friday afternoon, saying that with an ``exhausted'' inventory of season-tickets ``we no longer require a season ticket sales team to sell tickets.''

Stephen Weber, vice president of sales, delivered the news to about 30 ticket sales people Friday morning, according to one of the staffers who asked not to be named because he is seeking another job in sports.

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http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/31/1754155/with-heat-season-tickets-sold.html

Wow. Couldn't get those people reassigned elsewhere?

They are going to have trouble finding reliable staff once these three find out they can't get along and have to split up.

King James has let the peasants go

that sucks. Im sure they could all go work for the Cavs, they are gonna need all the help they can get selling season tix

(that was mostly a joke)

Good thing DWade is part of a loyal organization.

WOW

What a shatty thing to do to your staff.

"Hey employees, we just got a huge financial windfall this summer, we've sold all our tickets and are going to make a ton of money. You're all fired so we can keep a very small percentage more. We need you all out by 3 o'clock, Go Heat."

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They are going to have trouble finding reliable staff once these three find out they can't get along and have to split up.

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YEAH! Maybe they can be reassigned to the actual roster since they are out of salary and no respectful player would dream of going there to play for less. Oh... wait a minute.

This is grasping here. The bottom line is there's a glamorous factor when it comes to working for an NBA, MLB, or NFL franchise. There are a ton of very qualified people who would leap at the opportunity to work for the Milwaukee Bucks, let alone the Miami Heat stability and to a certain extent salary be damned... especially in this terrible economy. In other words, the Heat will be just fine in finding a good sales staff.

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The Heat clearly ought to keep paying these people to sell stuff of which there is no inventory!

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the Heat will be just fine in finding a good sales staff.

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Yeah, you're probably right. I'm just bitter about the way this league is going.

They could have transfered them easily. If you can sell tickets, you can sell advertising. Those folks could sell ad space in program, signage at arena, radio ads, etc.

If they're mostly glorified telemarketers, then still could have a job. They could be transfered to customer service.

Not all of them could probably work in these other areas, but some of them could work other jobs.

Other jobs that are already filled by other people? They just got stuck holding the bag for the jobs that were no longer required.

Once again, Obama doing nothing to reduce unemployment!!!