Most Objectionable

I normally do not blog about work. Work is work, and who wants to hear about work. Look, ever buddy hates their job, is what. You know that. I know that. We know that. So I usually just leave it at work.

But. Not. This.

IDIOTIC PEOPLE WHO MANAGE TO BECOME BOSSES - PART ONE

My team lead had to go to a 'Valuing Diversity in the Workplace' class this week. You know, it is the kind of thing where ever buddy gets broken into groups and has a big old discussion about how diversity is good, it is good to value diversity, and not doing so - well, that's bad. And there are lots of explanations and demonstrations, and they get broken out into teams and they have to 'role play' and yadda yadda yadda. If you work for a big corporation, you know the drill.

Well, my team lead came back with a dazed look on her face. Seems she had been teamed up with a bunch of managers - local senior managers. Their team had been given the task of determining from a list of hypothetical people and their hypothetical personality traits, which person was considered 'most objectionable.'

The team was having trouble reaching consensus. Normally no big surprise, especially when managers are involved, right? But this time, it was all down to one manager and his continuing insistance on rating the 'worst' employees as if they were the 'best' employees and vice-versa.

Finally, someone asked him to explain his reasoning. As he did, the light slowly dawned on ever buddy else. This manager, this senior manager, thought that 'most objectionable' meant that the person 'met their objectives' most of the time.

She told me this, and all I could do was to gape at her in wonder. I felt divide-by-zero errors piling up in my punkin haid.

IDIOTIC PEOPLE WHO MANAGE TO BECOME BOSSES - PART TWO

Then, we all were forced to attend a meeting in which a video was shone. The video was produced by my employer and it featured several of our VERY BIG bosses, senior executive management, talking to us about the 'Really Good Customer Experience'.

It was in this professionally-produced video that one of these million-dollar-a-year salary guys explains to us, patiently, as if to a child, that the word 'aptitude' means 'how well you know how to do your job'.

And we wonder why the Chinese are buying up land in the USA. They'll win the next war without firing a shot. And probably deserve to.

It is to weep.

Have a good weekend, my little droogies.

Wiggy