On 2014-02-08, jmcquown > wrote:

> Management sure liked to listen to themselves talk! Talk about how we
> could do our jobs better. How about you let us go back to our desks and
> *do* our jobs?
>
> Don't get me started on the stupid "teambuilding" exercises...

LOL!!..... oh, the memories.

Wasn't it all so stupid? Middle mgt is the biggest waste/drain on
corporate structure of all time. Astonishingly, it was identified as
such way back in the 1970 in the brilliant book, Up the Organization
by Peter Townsend.

It was another 20 yrs before I actually experienced the fact that it
was still alive and well and flourishing, Even in enlightened and
progressive Silicon Valley, we had that nonsense. I can remember all
the incredibly lame mid/mgt nonsense that went on. Team building,
monthly meetings (the whole division!), PowerPoint presentations,
weekly dept meetings, sig-sigma, mission statements*, etc. What
hogwash!

I didn't hafta retire and I tried not to, but after the third
retraining effort and subsequent crash, I jes gave up and retired at
53. I shoulda retrained in investments, cuz I eventually lost my nest
egg. But, a higher calling, my mom, prevailed and I'm now where I am.
In fact, I'm currently picking around for a supplementary income, so
am not above working, again.

Life .....one step at a time.


*Scott Adams, author of Dilbert, pulled the ultimate "mission
statement" expose:

http://articles.latimes.com/1997/nov/16/news/mn-54489

There's now mulitple "mission statement" generators on the web. I
can't look!


nb