Working late
Thursday September 29, 2005 at 4:40 pm
I just found out I'll be working late this evening. Allow me to say that I wholeheartedly dislike this situation. That being said, I also realize who pays the bills around here. I pretend it's me. Don't we all?
I've been tasked with a silly, boring, executively visible, multilaterally self-preservationistic, and otherwise managerially challenged herculean effort to justify the existence of the company's IT support staff. OK, it's not really that, but if you listen to the scuttlebutt you'll quickly find many believe that's precisely what it is.
To be honest, it's all of that save everything after "… to justify the existence of …" That's true of any tedious bit of dancing at the behest of the group executive. As I said, "Politics, by its nature, retards every system to which it is applied." That includes business.
jason
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September 30th, 2005 at 5:17 pm
As a young person, I could not wait until I was an adult. I imagined an adulthood of sensibility and wisdom. Little did I imagine that the playground politics of my childhood would continue, but on a larger scale. The same type of people who drove us crazy when we were kids are in our work lives, displaying the same bad attitude, and are just as inept at people skills as they were in kindergarten.
Too often these kind of people end up being your boss. Fortunately for me, that isn’t the case, but I’m not sure my boss can say that about his superiors.
October 1st, 2005 at 9:25 am
What a great way to look at it. I hadn’t equated it to the childhood equivalents of playground bullies and brattiness, but that is as appropriate a comparison as any. With age, we hope, comes maturity, but politics negates that entirely no matter where it’s found.
Even when we stumble upon one or two good managers or executives, it’s unlikely that there are others.
I’ll go out on a limb and say your boss probably doesn’t enjoy the same maturity and lack of politics in his supervisory chain.