Mar 27 2008
Idiot Speak
There are some management sayings I can’t stand. Some of them being.
At the end of the day.
We will look into it. (What is it, a freakin mirror?)
The squeaky hinge gets the oil. (In my house we replace the niff)
This is a win win situation. (code for I win and you still have a job)
Don’t come to me with problems come to me with solutions. (how bout I come at you with a right hook Riddler)
The latest is….
I don’t want to have to micro manage everything you do.
Wow, these manager show ponies are finding more and more ways to get out of doing any work whatsoever. I used to think that you had to go to university to become this stupid but I see you can achieve these qualifications now by listening to the comments of previous management. The circle of circus’s continue..
Instead of micro managing us why don’t you just give us a rough outline of what you want done instead of hoping we will use our Sherlock Holmes investigative skills to deduct our way to your constantly moving target.
What annoys me is I don’t have my own little sayings to get out of work. Can you guys suggest any to me?
“It is only possible to have this happen at precisely this juncture in time.”
“we will look into it” we refer to it as mirror syndrome
When trying to explain someone’s incompetence try using the “Peter Principal”, just google it there are several definitions available but Wiki’s is good enough.
Helps you understand SJ why some managers can’t perform the job they are paid to do.
The Peter Principle is a colloquial principle of hierarchiology, stated as “In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” Formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1968 book The Peter Principle, the principle pertains to the level of competence of the human resources in a hierarchical organization. The principle explains the upward, downward, and lateral movement of personnel within a hierarchically organized system of ranks.
Overview
The Peter Principle is a special case of a ubiquitous observation: anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails. This is “The Generalized Peter Principle.” It was observed by Dr. William R. Corcoran in his work on Corrective Action Programs at nuclear power plants. He observed it applied to hardware, e.g., vacuum cleaners as aspirators, and administrative devices such as the “Safety Evaluations” used for managing change. There is much temptation to use what has worked before, even when it may exceed its effective scope. Dr. Peter observed this about humans.
In an organizational structure, the Peter Principle’s practical application allows assessment of the potential of an employee for a promotion based on performance in the current job, i.e. members of a hierarchical organization eventually are promoted to their highest level of competence, after which further promotion raises them to incompetence. That level is the employee’s “level of incompetence” where the employee has no chance of further promotion, thus reaching his or her career’s ceiling in an organization.
The employee’s incompetence is not necessarily exposed as a result of the higher-ranking position being more difficult — simply, that job is different from the job in which the employee previously excelled, and thus requires different work skills, which the employee usually does not possess. For example, a factory worker’s excellence in his job can earn him promotion to manager, at which point the skills that earned him his promotion no longer apply to his job.
SJ, in your response try mixing metaphores……good fun.
Like ‘we’re all singing from tha same page’……
Also pick the list of stupid sayings and play a bit of wank work/phrase bingo, you can play by yourself so don’t worry!
Maybe we can ‘take this off line’ and ‘touch base’ later. Let me know your response and ‘we can circle back on this one later’.
Also maybe check with IASM….with his IQ he is bound to be a manager of some type!!!!
I’ll pretend to be iasm.com.
Tigress you pussy I’m the managing director of some multinational company and I’m richer than you all, I can’t and waste my time on racist bevan white Australian trailer park trash like you, you niff.
Woody once again you bore me with your unoriginal comments why don’t you get a real job before your wife runs off with a rich dude like me.
How did I go iasm.com?
Very Funny but I am not sure we should be making fun of him
Are you scared Rob B?
SJ if you are being micro managed, time to look for a new job while you still have one. Good luck CHAMP!