Written on 9:49 PM by ./dave
I ran across an idea on wikipedia that has been intriguing me, called the Peter Principal. From Wikipedia:
It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence".
Genius, my friends. Genius.
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Written on 7:50 PM by ./dave
I'm transitioning at work, meaning that I am moving out of the job I have now and into some other job in the future, which is kind of undefined at the moment. Nothing to worry about, this is all self chosen.
I was in a meeting with the guy who's taking my place. We work in one of those ginormous companies that has so many floors and conference rooms that each one has a name. We were in conference room "Plaza A".
As the new guy was making a very well thought out and reasonable point my gaze strayed underneath the conference room table. Written all over the power strip there was "Conference Room 3A! DO NOT REMOVE!"
I started laughing, completely uncontrollably, thinking about the one person from the facilities department who keeps having to replace the power outlets in 3A and the other person in facilities who just doesn't fucking care.
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Written on 8:55 PM by ./dave
There is a dude at my work who looks *exactly*... and I mean this... *precisely* like the dude from Office Space with the red Swingline stapler, Milton Waddams. Well, okay, he doesn't look exactly like him, but the effect of the dude is very much the same. Like the way GW looks like a monkey. In that kind of way.
The funny thing is that I saw him in the hallway a few weeks ago and I realized that he had dyed his hair black. I am dying to corner him and talk this through. I would say, "Okay, you've got the right idea. Changes need to be made and I'm glad that you're taking some action. We just need to refine your approach now. First off, the pants that are three inches above your shoes when you're standing - we need to revisit that strategy. The short sleeve button up shirt, just like it says on the Simpsons, that's only for Detective Sipowicz. And he wasn't cool.
"There is no need for you to carry a briefcase around. We keep our information on computers now. Unless it's full of cash and handcuffed to your wrist, it needs to go. Next, we need to think about getting you a tan. You look like a tapeworm. The sun is your friend.
"And you see, it's after all this has been accomplished that we might try getting fancy with a new haircut or some cool kicks. That's for after the race. Right now we're at the starting line."
Or maybe I'll just drop a DVD copy of Beauty and the Geek on his desk and see if that helps.
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