By any other name

For those of you that work at a Shitshow and think my just switching companies things will be better let this story be a lesson to you.

John left the Shitshow about 4 months ago, for a company across the street. Having to put up with King Kong one too many times, John was fed up. Knowing that I was a rock thrower John recently sent me an email summarizing his experience at his new job:

“I was hired to work on a specific project for Jack. Once I started the job, the Jack avoided me like I had the plague. A couple weeks later Jack left the company. I thought this was a little strange but I figured my new flunktional manager would know what I should do. After talking with flunktional management I discovered the job I was hired to do didn't actually exist. Unbelievable, I made it all the way through the HR process, and the job I was hired for didn’t even exist. So flunktional management gave me some other job with no oversight whatsoever. For the last 4 months I really haven’t worked for anyone despite doing work. With little to no direction I reached out to the local gurus to see if I was doing the right job and what I was doing was correct. They all agreed I was doing a great job. Last week a greybeard joined the program and stared telling everyone I was all wrong and didn’t know what I was doing. He talked to the customer, program management and everyone else behind my back. Now the gurus who approved my work now claim they never saw it and suddenly agree with the grey beard that it is all wrong. Now this greybeard tries to blow me up in every single meeting and everyone thinks I’m a complete idiot. “

Because a Shitshow by any other name is still a Shitshow I throw rocks.