Sunday, April 25, 2010

All Hands Meeting Surveys

Corporate America very much values the team spirit developed in what is known as the Department, or "All Hands", Meeting. To me this is all bullshit. There is no spirit of teamwork at these faceless corporations, but the All Hands Meeting does provide 1 hour of nonstop comic relief. My many years at the shitshow have given me great appreciation for the propaganda, or kool-aid as I like to call it, being dished out to the employees by the collective group of Neanderthals we call management. At an All Hands Meeting, you may hear phrases such as "Be an Agent of Change", "Feel Empowered to Find a Way", "Ethical Business is of the Utmost Importance", "Our Livelihood is Customer Satisfaction"......I mean the list goes on and on with this rambling nonsense. If anyone can figure out what all this generic bullshit means, please enlighten me. I would love to know how a low level engineer in the trenches could even be unethical? It's not like I can give kickbacks to Congressmen to do better analysis. What a total joke. So anyways, after the Standup Comedy Hour, aka All Hands Meeting, an email survey is sent out asking employees to provide feedback........now this is my time to shine! Just as management spews nonsensical phrases at the meeting that make me want to puke in the toilet, I surely fill the survey with phrases that will make them want to do the same. This is one small way that I throw rocks.

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