17 Things We Learned From Stephanie McMahon On Live With Chris Jericho
11. Getting Started In The Business
Stephanie says working in wrestling is what shes always wanted to do, and she started at around fourteen years old answering the phone for the office. She recalls she had everyones phone extensions memorized but had no clue who they were in person. She shares a tale of receiving a call from an angry fan who called to complain because Bobby Heenan had said on-air (spoiler alert, kids!) that there was no such thing as Santa Claus. The ladys best friend had told her she wouldnt allow her kids to watch and now that Heenan had made that claim there was a divide in the friendship. Steph claims that she mended the friendship over the phone to the point that the lady sent her flowers in appreciation. Then she interned in various different departments, such as marketing and new media. She says she would sneak into the AOL chats incognito to converse with the fans, and also spent time in HR. When she worked in the production studio she put together a clip reel, and then once she graduated college she spent a unique internship of three months in her mothers office observing her in her role as CEO. She sat with a legal pad and made notes on everything, and when things calmed down she would bombard her with questions. Following that she spent six months underneath Vince and learned so much, calling him an in the moment teacher and then transitioned into the sales office at the low end of the totem pole not long before she debuted on TV.
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