Endeavor Asks Some Reps To “Step It Up”

COMMENTS (26)

• What is the meaning of “step it up” in that context? Like take one for the team? I don’t get it.

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 7:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It means, “you better sign some money-making clients quick, or get some of the clients you already service into some profitable deals. You’re costing us more than you’re worth.”

  The bottom line speaks loudest.

  Comment by Been there — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 7:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Oh thats so sweet…”hey man, you have 6 days before the merger is final to step it up”

  Comment by bari namanuel — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 7:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Another way of saying “You were put in the computer and found wanting”!

  Comment by realworldperson — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 7:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I think they mean “step it up” as in start giving me a reason not to let you go.

  Comment by Mike — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 7:54pm PDT  Reply to this post

• No. Take “one for the team” means “take one for the team.”

  Step it up means, work harder and do and be more productive. Bring in work for the clients and thus money for the agency. Don’t be dead weight.

  Comment by EarlW — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 8:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “Step It Up” as in bring more money in, get more clients jobs, work harder if you want to keep your job.

  Comment by Michelle — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 8:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It means perfect your dance routine, and really stick it to the competing team in a dramatic showdown clothed in a sumptuous visual feast, with a truly beautiful love story threaded throughout 2 hours of non-stop dancing action.

  Comment by Duane Adler — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 8:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “step it up” means your on the hot seat, so hustle. Less sucking and more succeeding, before you’re EDDing.

  Comment by j.r. — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 8:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• my question is with all the rumors for the past few months, how did you not step it up already? who is just sitting around and slacking off. if you didn’t step it up already, may as well pack your stuff and find new work.

  Comment by duhh — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 8:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• That’s the nature of the agency biz. I don’t wish anyone to be let go but they knew what they were signing up for when they became agents. If you want stability, then get a tenured teaching job. And even that means crap nowadays.

  Comment by JD — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 8:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• @Duane Adler — Best. Comment. Ever. Fosho.

  Comment by OMG I LOVE Duane Adler — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 9:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It means that STEP UP 3:D is gonna be co-financed by William-Endeavor and it’s gonna be dope.

  Comment by Tyler Perry is the Anti-Christ — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 9:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “Step it up” means the partners are being taken care of first and foremost, THE priority.

  “Step it up” means if we can’t take you with us they can say – didn’t we tell you to step it up? And you didn’t. Bye bye.

  “Step it up” means get your game face on if you get to WMA in order to to take down pre-existing Morris agents in a takedown turf war. Prove yourself.

  “Step it up” means if the deal doesn’t go through – WE NEED DOUGH!

  All of the above probably.

  Both William Morris and Endeavor in New York are going to be a blood bath. Morris – unwieldy and unproductive size. Endeavor – nondescript vanity operation save for a few actors.

  Comment by Mad Max — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 9:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It’s either step it up or step it up 2 the streets.

  Comment by Michael Bolton — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 10:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “Step it up” means “we’re getting someone better from WMA – but since we’re warning you now, when we fire you it’s not because of that it’s because you were lazy and didn’t step it up when we told you to. We warned you, see?” It’s a completely disingenuous warning – all these guys are already gone. No amount of “stepping it up” other than a lucky hail mary miracle, which isn’t going to happen, is going to save any positions. Management knows this – the agents know this. This is just so management doesn’t have to feel like assholes when they do fire them.

  Comment by Josh — Tuesday April 21, 2009 @ 10:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• step it up means “you don’t have to go home but get the hell out of here.”

  Comment by joe — Wednesday April 22, 2009 @ 9:01am PDT  Reply to this post

• “Step it up” means that legally in order to fire someone for cause you have to have recorded in personnel files that they have been given a warning about their performance. A “Step it up” meeting is an HR CYA that is designed to prevent lawsuits for unfair termination and maybe prevent having to pay out contracts, bonuses, commissions, etc. They’re clearing the decks, legally speaking.

  Comment by Garbo — Wednesday April 22, 2009 @ 1:29pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Last week on The Office Jim didn’t know what a rundown was. He better step it up so he can do the rundown of his clients for that mean new boss.

  Comment by Dwight Schrute — Wednesday April 22, 2009 @ 1:54pm PDT  Reply to this post

• some agents at Endeavor WERE fired today. mine was.

  Comment by derek — Wednesday April 22, 2009 @ 1:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Step it up means….Dance Fight!! No rules,straight street! You just got served!

  Comment by Fun 2 Watch — Wednesday April 22, 2009 @ 3:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Derek,
  Can you name names?

  Comment by mjr — Wednesday April 22, 2009 @ 3:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Derek,
  is that your real name?
  I can’t think of any assts with that name at Endeavor.

  Comment by anonymous — Wednesday April 22, 2009 @ 4:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The Endeavor MP Lit Department is about as bad as you can get… There are a few amazing partners with great clients, but many of the agents suck and are rude bad people. They should be let go, but will be saved due to politics and weird “friendships”

  you know what i am talking about. It seems the nice and normal agents seem to be getting fired….

  Comment by Jack — Wednesday April 22, 2009 @ 4:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The Endeavor MP Lit Department is about as bad as you can get… There are a few amazing partners with great clients, but many of the agents suck and are rude bad people. They should be let go, but will be saved due to politics and weird “friendships”

  Jack,
  I could not have phrased it better myself. Endeavor is a particularly horrible place.

  Comment by mjr — Wednesday April 22, 2009 @ 10:41pm PDT  Reply to this post