Reply #5: i'm recollecting the clusterfuck of middle managers [View All]

in a major beverage manufacturers corporate headquarters i had interaction with.

the one guy who had any kind of snap was a director of IT support for supply chain. never saw him much in meetings and he more or less got things done without wasting tons of money. not much smoke, mirrors, dogs, and ponies.

there were lots of people flying all over the country to go to meetings. not developing business, but talking with the team in bumfuck to deploy VoIP, for example.

i was thinking about the way the word "professional" gets thrown around in corporate settings. people who look good on paper, fulfilled requirements in the requisite time frames, knew how to fill out forms, but otherwise were more or less insipid.