10 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets Revealed By Former WWE Writers
4. No Days Off
...the constant never-f*cking-ending work cycle that no single person should or realistically could be expected to keep.
As WWE staffer (and fabled 'Big Dick Johnson' star) Chris DeJoseph put it during an interview with WrestlingInc:
“Then you’d work the entire time on Vince’s plane, which was horrible. You go to a meeting, you go through the show, there’s changes, there’s re-writes and you produce the show. Then you get in a car and go to the next town, get on an airplane and start all over again. The schedule. That was extremely difficult. Being on the road 49-52 week a year takes a toll on you. There’s really no days off when you work for Vince McMahon on the creative team. There’s never a day where you weren’t eating, sleeping, drinking WWE all day long. Politically it’s challenging for a lot of people, and it’s all about how you carry yourself and getting people to like you. It’s like a fraternity and you have to be accepted into the family and that’s difficult for some people”
If it sounds unworkable, it's because it is. Not that McMahon would allow such talk, or for that matter, any talk that wasn't exactly what he wanted to hear...