Yesterday, I attended a two-hour, mandatory meeting within my company. It was a meeting that was to define our goals for 2008, and to declare our group's new mission statement. This is necessary because our group was reorganized...again. This has happened several times since I've started 8 months ago. So much so that I've had 5 or 6 new bosses, all of which I have no idea what they do. These are quotes from the meeting, with commentary.
"A Mission Statement is an aspirational statement. It's where we want to be."
(read: I am repeating myself, rewording the same statements, and being redundant, all to sound more important. )
"It's an act of arrogance for anyone down the chain to assume the responsibilities of someone who makes more money than you."
(read: You can't call me out when I say one thing and do another because I make more money than you.)
"When the company grows, money is made, jobs are created, merit-based rewards go up, profit sharing increases."
(read: You should work hard because the company makes more money. And even though we promise a share of the money that we'll make together, we'll just outsource most of your group to Asia over the course of the next year, just like we did in 2007, a year in which our profit margin was 21.6%, and was the fourth year in a row our company grew.)
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I also just attended a meeting today that explained the instructions to a template, that explained how to standardize the instructions for all products within our group. This meeting lasted an hour.
I have another two-hour meeting scheduled for tomorrow.
1 comment:
ummmm.....I hate your job for you. At least your meetings aren't run by a bunch of women that like to whine and moan about thier husbands, rather than get stuff done.
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