Some things just don’t make no sense.
Especially in the corporate world.
In
fact, the longer I spend outside corporate, the more “don’t make no sense” things I see and hear.
Take the following, for example:
1. People preaching “job
security” as gospel when companies are restructuring entire divisions, outsourcing functions and laying off staff
2. How quitting said job – to strike out and paddle your own canoe – is still seen as the “riskier” option
3. Staff working evenings and weekends before a holiday - and working evenings and weekends after a holiday - in order to spend time not working during their holiday. Or even to spend time working while they are on holiday
4. Why meetings which should take 10 mins get scheduled for an hour and end up taking 75 mins
5. Colleagues who grumble about their pay, the clunky processes and how they hate their job still grumbling a year later, 5 years later and right up until the day they retire
6. How CEOs, bosses and head honchos spend so much time working they have no time to enjoy the mega-bucks they’ve earned
7. Why the hard workers get given more and more work to do while the
slackers clock off at 4.50pm
8. How the third company re-org results in a structure which is identical to the structure before any of the re-orgs took place
9.
Working hard to get paid in order to buy suits and shoes and shirts and train tickets in order to work hard to get paid. And so on…
10. Being told creativity, innovation and “outside the box thinking” are valued whilst working a set number of hours a day for a set number of days a week
in a team structure which is as rigid and outdated as a cassette tape
I could probably add another 20 things to this list.
But that would belabour the
point.
And that don’t make no sense either.
Catch you tomorrow.
- Tom
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