As if working for King Kong isnt bad enough, imagine working for King Kong and the Zookeeper at the same time. Meaning both of them come to your meetings all the time and give you "direction" and "career advice". King Kong's typical career advice usually consists of him screaming at you for 5 to 10 minutes and then telling you phrases like "do this because I say so" or "I know more than you, Ive been doing this longer".
Anyways, I digress. Recently the Zookeeper made the project that I work on a "lean initiative" project. Who knows what the hell that means? Part of this lean directive was to prioritize tasks and make sure that each member of your team has one task at a time and not to start a new task until the current one is completed. The Zookeeper told me that if I dont use this lean strategy then "its my way or the highway". Nothing motivates people like bullying and intimidation tactics. I decided to start using this strategy because I have no choice and then King Kong comes to one of my status meetings and gets concerned we are "spending too much time on problems and not sarting new tasks to flush out new problems". King Kong goes into his usual fit of rage on me so I tell him that his boss, the Zookeeper, told me to do this. King Kong just sat there with a stupid look on his face and said he will talk to him about "the direction the project needs to go in". I never heard back from either of them.
Because Shitshow management cant even agree on a flunky management style, I throw rocks.
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