Chris Hedges: The careerists

[90-percent]

4. the new management class

there is a breed of middle management that are real suck up kick down personality types. vain self absorbed people who's job is simply to feather their own nests and their superiors let and encourage them to do it.

One of the most demotivating things in my career has been reporting to empty suits. handle-it-handle-it types. I do not prosper answering to people i dont respect, and it ended up costing me my career three years ago.

these people contribute nothing but gumming up the works and yet they are kept on. its my theory that companies reach a critical mass of success and then can spend decades of prosperity in spite of themselves. the contributions of the worker bees that competently get the job done out weights the counter productive efforts of their superiors.

I am congenitally incapable of brown nosing good.

I also made some mistakes - too much comfort zone and didnt keep up my skill set the way i should have. BUT I ALWAYS GOT THE JOB DONE and was always effective with the important stuff, but never worked to my full potential. Who amongst us does?

the magnitude of the weasel is directly proportional to how they dress. snappy dressing was the only thing my former boss was good at.

-90% Jimmy


bookmarked. Chris Hedges is always brilliant