Engineers Week

Well, it’s that time of year again to strong arm engineers into taking part in “Engineers Week”, a phony attempt by the Shitshow to promote teambuilding and foster a “fun workplace”. For those of you that don’t know, Engineers Week is nationwide event, created by the National Society of Professional Engineers, intended to raise public awareness of engineers' contributions to society. While I’m sure this event was created with good intentions and runs smoothly in other places, you can leave it to the Shitshow to bastardize this effort.

At the Shitshow, anything “fun” has to be regulated and mandated. Most likely, some Shitshow corporate fat cat decided that participating in Engineers Week would be good for the company’s image and good for boosting morale. So he directed Functional Management to get their engineers involved in these “fun and friendly competitions". Functional management, who is used to doing nothing and doesn’t understand leadership, suddenly had to entice their engineers to participate in a voluntary, extracurricular event that employees would have to do on their own time.What better way to get people to participate in a voluntary event than a mandate? While it’s under the premise of fun and games, engineers are now required to participate by having “Participating in Engineer’s Week” as one of their annual Performance Review goals.

The worst thing about Engineers Week is how teams get created. Because Functional Managers have to organize all the teams, they become the de facto leaders of the teams. And if there is anything worse than working under shitty management, it’s working under shitty management and not getting paid for it.

Because I’d rather get a bad performance review than participate in Engineers Week, I throw rocks.