Man. You hit some buttons here. If you're over the hill I'm at the bottom about to go over the cliff. In 1960 while watching the Dem convention on TV with my family, cameras showed Eleanor Roosevelt digging in her purse. My dad asked the rhetorical question, "what's she looking for"? I answered "a sandwich". My family cracked up. That's when I learned I'm a wise ass. It hasn't gotten me anywhere but I wasnt going anywhere anyway.
So our big boss (CEO or something) was in town for the first time ever this week. Fortunately I was happily working from home and didn't have to attend the impromptu town hall he held. Homeboy apparently was tone deaf enough to stand in front of his worker bees complaining about how much his daughter's Paris wedding is costing him. Then he moved on to talk about how he lost a $10,000 personal bet on the Chiefs back in Super Bowl LV, because you know that's what we care about - that you and your buddy can drop a $10k bet between yourselves. And he compounded it by saying something to the effect of "I wanted to cry when I lost but I'm a man so I can't cry. If I was a woman I could cry." Tell me you're a rich white misogynist without telling me you're a rich white misogynist...
Confession I didn't get to the end, but thought of this. "Well if you're so F~¢king smart how's come you're not Rich? Because I picked the wrong F~¢king parents"! Now back to my reading.
I also have never watched an episode of Mad Men, and after watching that clip, I'm sure I never will. In a meeting I was in several decades ago, several management types were trying to figure out why more people weren't volunteering to go to sites that would keep them away from the home office. One female manager said they should give those workers a "special title". I, not being management but having had more than a few "away from home office" assignments, said something like none of us care about a title - if you want more people to go to sites, give a site differential pay increase, give bigger annual raises, pay overtime. Of course, my points were discounted. I'm so glad I no longer have to deal with mission statements, stretch goals (when they even tell you before you start that they're going to move the goal posts when you reach the target), and manufacturing BS to justify why my boss deserves a raise/bonus.
I watched the first three or so episodes of Mad Men and because up to that point there still wasn’t a single likable character I gave a rats ass about I stopped watching it. My wife watched the whole series and loved it.
I can tell you that corporate management philosophy extends to non-profit, municipal governance, and other organizations that you might think are benign and enlightened. I remember working for an organization where when there was a management shakeup, they gave the office and facility staff copies of the book: "Who Stole My Cheese?"
Man. You hit some buttons here. If you're over the hill I'm at the bottom about to go over the cliff. In 1960 while watching the Dem convention on TV with my family, cameras showed Eleanor Roosevelt digging in her purse. My dad asked the rhetorical question, "what's she looking for"? I answered "a sandwich". My family cracked up. That's when I learned I'm a wise ass. It hasn't gotten me anywhere but I wasnt going anywhere anyway.
So our big boss (CEO or something) was in town for the first time ever this week. Fortunately I was happily working from home and didn't have to attend the impromptu town hall he held. Homeboy apparently was tone deaf enough to stand in front of his worker bees complaining about how much his daughter's Paris wedding is costing him. Then he moved on to talk about how he lost a $10,000 personal bet on the Chiefs back in Super Bowl LV, because you know that's what we care about - that you and your buddy can drop a $10k bet between yourselves. And he compounded it by saying something to the effect of "I wanted to cry when I lost but I'm a man so I can't cry. If I was a woman I could cry." Tell me you're a rich white misogynist without telling me you're a rich white misogynist...
You danced around the George Gobel line, "Did you ever feel like the world was a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?"
Confession I didn't get to the end, but thought of this. "Well if you're so F~¢king smart how's come you're not Rich? Because I picked the wrong F~¢king parents"! Now back to my reading.
Loved this one. We would’ve been separated at meetings for sure.
I also have never watched an episode of Mad Men, and after watching that clip, I'm sure I never will. In a meeting I was in several decades ago, several management types were trying to figure out why more people weren't volunteering to go to sites that would keep them away from the home office. One female manager said they should give those workers a "special title". I, not being management but having had more than a few "away from home office" assignments, said something like none of us care about a title - if you want more people to go to sites, give a site differential pay increase, give bigger annual raises, pay overtime. Of course, my points were discounted. I'm so glad I no longer have to deal with mission statements, stretch goals (when they even tell you before you start that they're going to move the goal posts when you reach the target), and manufacturing BS to justify why my boss deserves a raise/bonus.
I watched the first three or so episodes of Mad Men and because up to that point there still wasn’t a single likable character I gave a rats ass about I stopped watching it. My wife watched the whole series and loved it.
I can tell you that corporate management philosophy extends to non-profit, municipal governance, and other organizations that you might think are benign and enlightened. I remember working for an organization where when there was a management shakeup, they gave the office and facility staff copies of the book: "Who Stole My Cheese?"