sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
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The new strategy every two years, usually a new ceo, providing more bullshit and hot air for the management team to discuss and monitor in meetings when the rest of us carry on as normal delivering projects to the same clients under the same conditions. Decisions taken that effect delivery by those with have no idea. HR giving themselves fancy names and producing endless paperwork for the simplest thing making work for themselves but also for the rest of us. Rant over.
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RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
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Greg Locock
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RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
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SNORGY.
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
They have multiple meetings everyday to discuss BS. At the end of the meetings they give out homework to others to bring back more BS to put on their desks. In the mean time they have fancy lunches, etc.
If I owned a company, the CEO and management would have experience in the products we make, not just a BS degree with firing experience.
Chris
SolidWorks 11
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RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
If you hate your job, move.
Can't find a suitable job, work by the hour.
- Steve
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
At least with new managment fads you get a tee shirt, and coffee mug.
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
That's why legends of middle-level a$$ ki$$er$ are needed to hide the fact that the emperor has no clothes.
common sense is indeed very uncommon
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
You need to go to the public library and read "Parkinsons Law" or, if you have already read it, read it again.
It will not help you, but it will make you realise that things are not as bad as they could be.
B.E.
The good engineer does not need to memorize every formula; he just needs to know where he can find them when he needs them. Old professor
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
My favorite was a construction job with incredibly inept supervision.
Badly behind schedule and over budget, in desperation a foreman's meeting was called, at 7:00 AM sharp. The entire crew sat without assigned work until the meeting was over.
Another aspect of the inept supervision was that they couldn't assign work even a day ahead. Each foreman gave his crew their direction for the day at the start of each shift, (after the meeting was over on that day.)
Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
The Peter Principle states that people rise to their level of incompetence.
In his book, Peter also states that (in)competence is in the eye of the beholder. I think this negates his first point.
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
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RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
- Steve
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
If he is any good he won't last long before he either gets promoted up the ladder or they sideline him.
There is nothing senior management hate more than the sight of more able people on the lower rungs climbing up after them. They fear being overtaken and shown up for what they are. They will take steps to fix the "problem".
JMW
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RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
This is the basis of the tidal shifts of in-sourcing, and out-sourcing, as well as managment fads. The purpose is remove dead wood. The problem is the best talent leaves from the frustration of it all.
So if you ever wonder why middle managment seems to always be shifting, it's because of the 50% of bad promotions.
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
People are the same everywhere. We can complicate something as simple as thirst. Look at the rows and shelves of drinkable products in the grocery and convenience stores.
Much of what companies do today adds no value to their end product.
Pamela K. Quillin, P.E.
Quillin Engineering, LLC
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
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RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
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RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
Our company was putting on a lavish open day for invited senior managers of the water industry.
A marquis was erected in the car park and no expense spared on the buffet with a seemingly limitless supply of champagne.
That was the day a new manager arrived for work. By mid afternoon he was paralytic.
He did not appear the next day and was never seen or heard of again.
JMW
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RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
What puzzles me about Dilbert is that when the guy started writing the cartoon, he worked at a real company. He was so successful he left and did Dilbert full time. I wonder how he keeps fresh on his material for the column because he continues to be spot on.
rmw
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
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Pat
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2. Life on one slave ship is not substantially different from life on any other slave ship, and change comes slowly.
As an example of (2), he could update many old strips by:
- drawing the cell phones smaller.
- drawing the computer monitors larger and thinner.
- drawing the computers themselves smaller.
3. Pointy haired bosses never change.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.
- Steve
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
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RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
"Gorgeous hair is the best revenge." Ivana Trump
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
JMW
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RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
jmw,
You would have to do like Gary Trudeau did with Doonesbury and make the panels bigger... but a lot bigger. Then we can get out our magnifiers to read them once the papers shrink them.
Technically, the glass is always full.
RE: sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere?
I think mergers and acquisitions have added to the stupidity in our business by waiting too long to integrate firms. My current slave masters are probably the leader in dysfunctionality, buzz words and embracing any fad that comes along, but no tee shirts. The previous slave masters were big on tee shirts.
Sometimes, work reminds me of photos and film clips of Nazi Germany near the end - posters, banners, flag waving - proclaiming all is well and great. Some of initiatives that the company implements are in theory good but in the end they either over complicate things or don't develop them in a practical and useful way.