My boss (let's call her Mrs. David Brent) has to retire. Now. Before she destroys us all through her incompetence.
Yesterday, she called a "quick" meeting to inform us that her boss, the guy we still have not been introduced to after 3 1/2 months (i.e. the Phantom), hired a "consultant" to do a "review" of our department. Without telling Mrs. Brent.
My colleague said: She's a Spy. The Phantom has sent in a spy.
The spy started yesterday. She was already in the building when we had our little meeting to inform us of her arrival. The Spy is allegedly going to watch us do our jobs, "coach" us and even assign us tests and assignments. Fuck that shit! We've all been in our jobs more than 10 years, and now we're going to be tested? We were all tested when we got these jobs. We will soon be beating a path down to the ombudsman's office.
Mrs. Brent told us: "Don't bother going ballistic. When I was told, I went ballistic for ALL of us!" Knowing how she cowers in the face of all authority, I would imagine her version of going ballistic was to chew her pencil and look nervously around the room.
My other colleague wondered why the Phantom would've brought the Spy in without Mrs. Brent's knowledge. I said: when you know someone's a dud, you work around them.
On the lighter side, after we were introduced to the Spy, who is a retired British lady, my colleague said: "She looks like somebody who enjoys a drink". This was said in an approving way.
The next 5 weeks should be interesting.
4 comments:
sounds like a job for clive owen-recruit him
If it's any consolation, my place of work is crawling with idiots and rampant with stupidity and hypocrisy...I dare not even get started...
JAW fan
I'm sure you realise Nanuk that when they start bringing in consutltants to do this stuff, massive change is afoot....and here speaks the voice of experience!!!
here we go again. The more things change the more they stay the same. argh.
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