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Here is an example.
Person X was the C.F.O. ( Chief Financial Officer) of a large corporation with 3,000 employees and close to a billion dollars in sales a year. After a couple of years on the job, person X began discovering practices that disturbed him. For one thing , the company was mismanaging the employees retirement fund and funds in a manner that put the employees funds and retirement incomes at risk with the I.R.S. For another , the company was using incorrect and unfair accounting procedures. X also discovered that certain customers were receiving preferential treatments while other valued customers were not.
X felt responsible and wanted to correct these inequities. Although acknowledging he was right , others in top management continually dragged their feet. Then X discovered actual misappropriation of company resources by one executive. X demanded action and got it, but still sensed that he was working against continual resistance.
X became more and more convinced that those in control lacked honesty and integrity. His own role had become a negative one ; he was always raising troublesome questions. X stayed at his post of eleven years. During that time he influenced company policy to the benefit of employees and stockholders. Both groups would of otherwise suffered from the selfish and shortsighted actions of executives who were only looking out for themselves and their pocketbooks.
Still the constant tension and conflict wore on X himself. He did not relish his watchdog role , and often felt hypocritical for being part of an unprincipled management team. Business conflicts absorbed him to the point that his marriage , family and personal mental health suffered.
X did consider quitting for a long time, again and again. He was one of the highest paid financial executives in his field , and he knew that if he left his job, he would most likely have to take a pay cut. Over fifty and overqualified he even might have difficulty finding another position.
X felt responsible and wanted to correct
Stupid idiots.
And you wonder why North America is having trouble.
Jerk Bosses that I have Known and Endured
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Most jobs whether humble or prestigious , blue collar or white collar – demand at some point some kind of moral compromises. This means that you will be making hard choices.
Stupid idiots.
And you wonder why North America is having trouble.
Jerk Bosses that I have Known and Endured
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Yet another way to glorify god and our / your boss in our work is by doing a good job – even though in the end the stupid boss could never know it or appreciate if he ran head into it.
Its amazing how clueless and stupid these bosses can be. Give them a whole – very expensive course at head office ( lots of travel points / liquor on the plane etc etc) on keypoint targeting in customer selection. After all any contacts made to actual customers be it via the media , via email or direct calls in person involve great cost and planning time. An expensive course , taught with expensive equipment and professional time as well as company paid time and travel time. All on targeting.
And yet after the course is given , after careful “management expertise in the evaluation process” to the working rank and file – if asked for input by the idiot boss ( with a preamble), on customer call selection the answer is given with gusto and a football rah rah rah “You just get out there and blitz. Blitz! Blitz ! Blitz !”
Stupid idiots.
And you wonder why North America is having trouble.
Jerk Bosses that I have Known and Endured
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