Mick was new to the corporate office, and was flabbergasted with the number of hours per week spent in meetings.
“When do you guys work to implement the plans?”
“There are people on the ground below to do it. Our job is only to monitor, and rebuke those who fail.”
“But how do I show my achievements, and build my own career path?”
“You just need the right hook above to lift you, and if you care, be the pulley to help your cronies.”
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It never escapes me that there is a reason I am self employed.
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Agree 🙂
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I haven’t worked in the corporate world in 20 years, but, yep, that was it!
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And it remains. Human beings and power equations have not changed.
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The unfortunate and sad truth about the corporate world.
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Ah, the corporate world. And we’ve seen the corporate and political worlds collide in Washington, D. C and it isn’t pretty.
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The fundamental principles of both corporate and political worlds are the same – acquisition and retention of power.
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It helps to have contacts in the right places, otherwise, you just remain a link in a chain.
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The essence of my recent experience in a corporate environment. “You know, I’d achieve my GOALS a lot faster if you’d quit interrupting me working toward my GOALS to have meetings about GOALS and badger me about where I am on my GOALS…” Ugh, hated it. Nice take on the cue.
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Thank you! The issue is goals get entangled at times, and meetings become a platform for display of power.
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This is a game neither my Sweetie nor i am good at, thus he never rose very far and i am self employed. Nicely written!
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Sadly , this is a true story!!
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I don’t know that having a hook to help your cronies would help. You have to impress those above and expect to work harder than most and be so reliable that they can trust you…but you are on your own.
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totally agree with the Moon and Neel the bane of middle management, those who create the illusion of the necessity of their function, when, in fact, adding nothing of value (at the Doctrine, these people are the personalty type called ‘rogers’)
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such a dispiriting reality , portrayed so well.
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A corporate reality. Well written, Reena.
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Thank you!
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