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I think this type of management (or mismanagement) coincides

Dec 10, 2018, 2:10 PM [ in reply to Yup, my first job after Clemson, our party each year ]

with what I like to call the 'social media mindset' many people seem to have these days. Seems to be somewhat of a cancer, and gives weird little introverts some semblance of power in their lives.

Without going into a long, drawn out spiel, here's kind of what I mean by this:

People who have zero understanding of fundamental human behavior now have an opportunity to rise to higher positions than they otherwise would have been able to in previous societies. This is due to the fact that the personal relationships no longer matter to people, and face to face interaction is largely just an inconvenience to the social media/cell phone zombies.

Thus, you get weird little ##### sitting in an office somewhere making decisions that affect large swaths of people. Decisions like the Christmas party. They don't understand the employee morale aspect of it, all they see is an opportunity for them to cut costs and look like a hero. And that's what it is, a move to make them look better in the eyes of others. It's the same reason they're still posting pictures from their vacation to Daytona Beach 3 years ago like everything is fine even though their wife has left them and taken the children, and they have an insurmountable amount debt.

No vision whatsoever of the bigger picture, it's all about the short term optics to them. Hey, this decision may #### off hundreds, if not thousands of people...But as long as that one manager gives me an atta boy, it'll all be worth it. And it's painfully evident when a company gets too many of these type of people, they start guarding their responsibilities, become oppositional to suggestions or requests for assistance, and just generally hard to work with.

It goes in cycles until someone with some sense comes in and cleans house, but eventually when times get better and the company is staying busy, the weird little office ##### with no people skills rise again.

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But it's like the people cannot comprehend that things could ever possibly change. And this internal stuff always ends up hurting a companies relationship with its customers, I mean how could it not? You've just taken a big shid on the point men of your company. The very people you rely on to interact with your customers. You want them to care....no, you NEED them to care.

One of the companies we work with is going through this. They've had about 3 or 4 really great years, so naturally the people in the high offices are the kings and everyone else might as well go fugg themselves. They did all of this by themselves, I guess. Every interaction with the people in the home office is bordering on confrontation, whether it be with their reps on the ground, or even customers. Sales are starting to slow. The big projects they've been relying on are done and there are no more in the pipeline. Why? Because they've priced themselves out of the ballpark, won't negotiate, and are ######## to boot. You bring them a project and they'll go out of their way to do it differently than the customer is asking, because I guess they just think they know better no matter what. It's completely baffling.

Everyone is just waiting on a mass firing in the office so we can get back on track.

In a little less than an hour...

Sounds hideous....

Purty sure it's all traditional holidat fare.

Re: Purty sure it's all traditional holidat fare.

Definitely the worst aspect of the holidays is having to

Same ####, ever time my extended family gathers

I like the smug family members who like to pretend you're

So... you know my sister?

I'm sure she was just suffering in silence

I scheduled a "meeting" for our Holiday party last week.

Our company's Christmas party is Friday night

we have 2.5 people here

At my last Christmas Party we had a dessert contest.

My dad would

I refused to go to a Christmas party.

As per usual, the 15 minute-long saying of grace sermon

Re: As per usual, the 15 minute-long saying of grace sermon

I take issue.

Company Christmas parties suck until

And Obed drops the

I get that you're trying to joke, but

There is much truth to this.

Yup, my first job after Clemson, our party each year

I had an unusual car dealer ride back to my house

Yeah, if I'd had 35 years with IBM with full insurance,

Zackly.

I think this type of management (or mismanagement) coincides

I saw it at my last gig.

And then add to that the strong arming for United Way

That's what I don't get, the end result is so easy to see

Honestly the company is really only now getting to the point

Recommendation: Suck it up Chief and fall on the grenade

We used to do the "dirty santa" gift exchange thing at ours

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