Management is a funny thing. Besides the whole labotamy thing, I think it also requires courses in avoiding the truth… I’m sitting here listening to a 20 minute (and counting) conversation where the group lead is telling one of the guys that he’s losing his window seat. Basically, someone else with "seniority", i.e. was hired at least 60 seconds earlier, wants a window seat. So he’s having to move. The thing that really sucks is that it’s someone from a completely different group. Someone else from another group wants a window seat, so someone in our group has to give up his.
But, of course, the manager can’t just say that… Instead, they construct amazing complex reasons that seem to be that everyone on this side of the building is moving to make room for a new person on the other end of the building… but somehow, the ONLY person who has to actually change seats is our guy with the window seat. Amazing, no?
Anyway, the explanation has taken over 20 minutes so far. Why couldn’t the manager just say "hey, I’m moving you." and be done with it. (got distracted… it’s now been 30 minutes, and he’s still going). It’s annoying me. More out of principle than anything. I probably shouldn’t be writing it down, but it’s a running joke in our department how long it takes this guy to say anything. We time conversations and compare notes. The other day, it took him 7 minutes, 40 seconds on the phone to tell me to change one line in a excel spreadsheet. I’ve seen people sum up one of his hour-long ramblings in three sentences – and not miss ANY information!
I could ramble on about it for a while, but then I’d be slightly hypocritical… and I’m actually a little busy at work, right now.
(p.s. Didn’t post this right away… it’s been 35 minutes, and he’s still going!!!)