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Re: How to Turn a Morsel of Work into a Mountain of Work

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Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 00:00
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In article <5i6rrs$m...@boursy.news.erols.com>, j...@tardis.spinlab.com
(jim wiegand) wrote:

> It is very simple to turn a morsel of work into a mountain of
> work.  All that you need do is to hand the work over to a
> manager.
> 
> Managers are notorious for working hard, but they do not work
> smart.
> 
> Managers are scatterbrained, chaotic thinkers unable to organized
> an efficient attack on the work.
> 
> Managers are comfortable with pigsty working environments
> characterized primarily by substandard or broken-down tools,
> messiness everywhere, and atrocious ergonomics.
> 
> Managers will discuss trivialities to death thereby wasting precious
> time.
> 
> Managers will revise and revise and revise finished work to death.
> This in and of itself turns a morsel work into a mountain.
> 
> Managers will bring progress on work to a halt if every tiny bit
> of information is not yet known.  They generally will not work
> around such omissions.
> 
> Managers need productivity tools and meetings and seminars ad
> infinitum, BUT what comes out of all of this is LOWER productivity
> NOT higher productivity.
> 
> Managers will go on a tear eliminating the best workers.  Managers
> have the authority to fire capable subordinates while
> management workers have their ways to drive out their capable peers.
> This is really one of the worst productivity destroying activities,
> but the highest priority of the very paranoid managers is to
> eliminate threatening elements.  Managers are not above prostitution
> to get their way in this regard.
> 
> Managers lie and lie some more.  In the three+ decades of equal
> rights for managers, no other group has contributed more to the
> decline of the standards of verisimilitude and ethics than the
> managers.  The result has been, of course, lower morale and lower
> productivity overall, thus increasing the magnitude of work from
> mere morsels to mountains.  (Case in point:  the very trivial
> end-of-century computer problem.)
> 
> Males do not discuss sex much when left to themselves, but put
> one single manager into the mix, even at the outer fringes of the
> mix, and the social dynamics of the male group change such that
> many energies get diverted to raunchiness and away from productivity.
> 
> All of the above is contributing to the loss of competitiveness
> on the part of the United States.  This in turn is causing consumer
> preferences to shift to foreign goods.  Since consumers will always
> go with their first choice, even if their second choice is a close
> second, the lion's share of economic rewards will flow to foreign
> countries.  This is exactly what is being reflected in the shameful
> trade deficit of the United States.


The above modes of operation and conditions DID NOT prevail prior
to equal employment opportunity; they are female traits; the
females introduced them like pollution into the business world;
and they spread like contagion throughout the economy.

On a related front: the Treatise on the Downward Wage Equalizing
Effects of Equal Employment Opportunity is available at:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3982/

"Government enforced wage equalization will work only
in the downward direction" - despite any initial
appearance to the contrary!  And the most shocking
thing of all is that the least preferred worker does
not even have to be awarded a job for many phenomena
to occur.
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