This is all about when a job goes wrong, when corporate America is left to run things with no responsibility whatsoever. Please feel free to comment and commiserate. I'm sure I'll be in need of a co-author to the book this just _has_ to become.

06 January 2006

The corporate version of a soldier's helmet...

...as in - you need it to feel safer, but when the fit really hits the shan it ain't gonna help much.

I love this...

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Franz Richards
>> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 11:13 AM
>> To: E; Mat
>> Subject: Documentation
>>
>> Give some thought over the weekend how both of you can
>> document your work, so the other can cover the "basics"
>> when someone is out sick, vacation, etc. Thanks.


In case you can't read bossinese, that's "Um, we know we're screwing you enough that you're gonna bail soon, and we know we can't afford to lose you, so tell us how to do your job so we're not royally screwed when we throw this last straw on your back."

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

LOL Well that's a good way of putting things!

1/08/2006 09:04:00 PM

 
Blogger Mat Weller said...

Well, you can look at it that way, or you can look at it as saying, "We're about to toss you out, and we need simple instructions we can give to the high school kid we intend to attempt to slide into the same spot. After all, you don't bring any unique knowledge to the position, do you?"

1/08/2006 10:00:00 PM

 

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