Jim Gaffigan is a funny dude and a few weeks ago I ended up watching part of his stand-up on TV.
He was doing his bit about seafood. (You can watch it here).
Hilarious. And a pretty long bit too. Basically pointing out that seafood is like eating bugs and the only reason we eat it is for the butter sauce.
Being that this comedy special was on TV, after the seafood bit it was time for a commercial break.
The very first commercial of the break…a Red Lobster commercial.
I’m not joking!
What in the world?!!! How could this happen?
The commercial is showing lobsters and crab and shrimp in the most sophisticated slow motion way possible, while for the last 8 minutes we’d just been told in a very funny yet convincing way how nasty and disgusting this food is!!
Here’s my guess of “how could this happen?”: It’s not that anybody dropped the ball…it was simply nobody’s job at the tv station to make sure the commercials played well with what was being joked about on Jim Gaffigan’s comedy show. My guess is that a programmer just lined up the next five commercials on the list and pressed play, because that’s how the job works.
So it was nobody’s job.
But let’s rephrase it from “it was nobody’s job” to “there was a job opening”.
And a pretty important job opening if you ask me. There was a need for someone to be the person who made sure the commercials meshed well with the scheduled content…an open responsibility…a chance for someone to take the reins and do something that would benefit everyone (in this case not run the Red Lobster commercial till next hour).
These little branches and limbs of responsibility are being dangled out there, and all of us have the chance to jump if we’re paying attention and care. Opportunities to play a vital role in a system that seemingly has all of it’s bases covered.
Pay attention. Care. Speak up.
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