For Third Year in a Row, Minnesota Twins Season Ticket Rep Named World’s Toughest Job

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Katie McKinney has had better days.

“When the Pohlads put out the statement that they weren’t selling the team on Wednesday, I was about to start my 8-hour shift of calling and e-mailing lapsed season ticket holders,” said McKinney, 24, of Eden Prairie. “I didn’t know people had that many different ways of saying [REDACTED] you, [REDACTED].”

McKinney’s experience is just one of the reasons Minnesota Twins Season Ticket Representative was named World’s Toughest Job by Nevada University’s Carson Institute.

“The physical demands of jobs in commercial fishing boats or coal mines are undeniable,” said Garth Mannion, an Institute spokesperson. “I’d like to see them last one shift where you have to sell 4- and 5-figure ticket packages to a team that just traded Carlos Correa for a box of used gum.”

“I thought trade deadline day was going to be the worst day of my career,” said McKinney. “I went home, cried for six hours, went to bed, woke up crying, came back to the office, and got called a [REDACTED] by a kindly Willmar grandmother at 9:01 am.

“Yesterday was much, much worse.”

Mannion said he’d never seen a job where the mental health aspects were so much more daunting than careers traditionally considered more hazardous.

“You talk to people who rescue tourists from underwater caves, technicians who defuse explosive devices, the folks who clean up gruesome crime scenes, and they all talk about how they compartmentalize the work or embrace their part in making bad days a little better,” said Mannion. “The bleak, Stygian horror of persuading someone to give money to the Pohlad family offers no such solace—only the promise of another day exactly like this one. It’s not hell, but it’s not not hell.”

McKinney said that, despite the awful reaction to the Pohlads announcing they were no longer selling the club, she did make one sale on Wednesday.

“He was clearly a senior citizen, and I’m pretty sure he thought I was Judy Garland,” said the rep. “This likely elder fraud is the only good thing that has happened to me since I started.”

McKinney stared into the middle distance, sighed, and reconsidered.

“OK, two good things. Archie, who has been here since 2024 and is the old hand in our department, taught me this breathing trick so I can smoke and cry at the same time.”

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[old nurse]

The Twins front office has 58 people listed i brand marketing ad ticket sales. Unfortunately, it is not satire to say that many people are ineffective.  On the bright side, if the Twins would have spent the sales people’s salary on Josh Bell or Justin Turner rather than spending the little that they did on Ty France they still would have been hustled as mediocre at 1b

[chpettit19]

I did get an email from a season ticket rep on Wednesday. I was polite to them (told them I understood they were just doing their job and it was probably not an easy job to do these days) while informing them they really did need to just take me off their list (they'd been told before) because I really wasn't going to give the Pohlad family another dime of my money and bringing in minority investors didn't change that. I do not envy those people. I'd be looking for a new team to break into the baseball biz with if I were any Twin employee at this point. I'm sure they get many people who are far more aggressive with their responses than I was.

[Brandon]

I bought season tickets in Chpetit19 honor and the sales rep tried to talk me out of it.  He recommended other places to spend my money.💰 places not owned by the Pohlads.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

It's a job.

One might even capitalize it. And liken to a certain book of the bible, which i should probably read some day. Sage parallels will be left as an exercise to the reader....

 

Anyway, no one calls me up. I slipped through the season ticket cracks.