Routers

Much like computer routers which interconnects computer networks and controls the information transfer between them, the Shitshow has a class of low/mid level employees who are nothing more than routers.  Shitshow routers are incompetent employees who can’t do any real work on their own.  Instead, when Shitshow router receives a task they can’t do themselves (which is almost any technically oriented task despite being hired as engineers), they find someone who can.   When the work is complete, the Shitshow router collects the work and then presents it to management sometime taking credit for the work and sometimes sharing credit for the work.

You might think that these types of employees would get laid off because they can’t do any real work and thus just add overhead cost.  Wrong!  Instead these “engineers” win engineering awards and are given lead engineer positions.

Here’s a great example.  The other day I asked a Shitshow router to perform a very simple task.  I included management on the email so they would have insight into the work I was asking to be done and to show I was keeping her in the loop.  The next day the Shitshow router asks me to come to her office.  Turns out she had no idea how to perform the basic task I asked her.  I explained it in detail and worked the task in real time on her whiteboard so she could see what I did.  Within minutes I had answered my own question.  

So what does the Shitshow router do?  She responds to my original email, with management on distribution, answering the question I asked her by copying what I wrote on her whiteboard as though she did the work by herself.

Because Shitshow routers answer my questions with my answers I throw rocks.