Shinning a Light

When I throw rocks I try to aim them at management and policies, people who might be able t change something or at least put in place a different failed procedure/process. However, in my early rock throwing years I used take aim at low level employees who were incompetent, the Bob’s of the world. While personally satisfying, no good would come from this. In fact some rocks would get thrown back in my direction out of spite.

Instead of throwing rocks at the human dead weight I now shine a light on them. Shine a light on the cockroaches. There are many ways to shine a light, here are a couple examples:

-When a “lead” or “senior” employee sends out an email that shows they are incompetent I forward it to their functional manager telling the manger I expect more from a person at this level.

-When a “lead” doesn’t show up to a meeting because they are “too busy to attend” (a.k.a. hiding as not to expose their incompetence), during the meeting I’ll ask where the cockroach is making sure their program managers hear the question.

Because I have to shine a light, I throw rocks.