What the **** is it with managers and meetings? The managers in our company must spend no more than an hour a day at their desks because they are constantly attending meetings and conference calls. What do they discuss at so many meetings? Also, managers don't half like to talk a load of ****e and they only ever seem to talk in cliches. I have come to the conclusion that managers are pointless.
Play board room bingo. Make a note of the usual banal words and phrases used in management speak and distribute them around your fellow attendees. When the boss says sh*t like "drill down figures" "blue sky thinking" "outside the box" and similar trite nonsense you tick off your sheet and once you get four in a row shout "BINGO" and hope you don't get sacked. I was on a training course and counted the number of times the suit said 'basically' during the half day. 85. I also counted how many 'at the end of the day'. 22. To this day I can't remember what the course was about.
I'm a long time subscriber to the Dilbert principle that the most incompetent workers will be quickly promoted to the place they can do the least harm
That's especially true of local government and the civil service. If the head of a department wants rid of a colleague because he's not up to the job, he'll give him a good appraisal and reference meaning he gets promoted and becomes someone elses problem.
It's far easier to promote/move an idiot than to sack them. It really does happen. And of course, the opposite is also true. People that are good at their jobs are held there because, well, they are good at it and their managers become reliant on them.
Seeing as I work in a company of one employee I have already promoted myself all the way to the very top I'm so incompetent.
That's mainly because the likes of Unite will absolutely **** them in the arse because the poor old public sector worker DESERVES to be paid top dollar and get the best pension, purely because they can sit there and do a mundane task for 40 years whilst still being a totally lazy ****.
Sounds similar to the Peter Principle, the idea that you can promote someone until they are not able to do the job.
It's especially true of IT, mate. I don't doubt your line managers know **** all about **** all. What they do know is how to rely on the people that do know - and as far as they can, keep them there.
I think there may be 2 managers in the whole place who come from a technical background which is quite scary considering they are supposed to be managing technical people
Bloody hell Sam, have you only just come to that conclusion?. Where i work, the more managers they take on the more useless the place runs, it's a ****ing school ffs we don't want or need ANY ****ING MANAGERS. Where i work we have one lanky Yorkshire man with the brain capacity of a squashed apricot, who played for Doncaster Rovers, and a couple of games for Grimsby in the early mid eighties, and won't ****ing shut up about it, another who is a pint sized Plymothian **** who thinks he's a hit with the burds that work here, both as thick as **** and neither can stand the other. The place is a ****ing shambles.
