5 Ways to Tell How Well a Potential Employer Would Treat You as an Employee

[Ikonoklast]

39. The ownership believed that the regurgitated pablum fed back to them by upper management was

the reality on the ground instead of upper management just looking out for their own asses, and could not for the life of them understand why things on the shop floor were the exact opposite of that shared delusion.

I firmly believe that ownership felt that the consultants would just be a rubber-stamp for their business practices when the exact opposite was true; the consultants felt that it was their job to educate, improve, and change things starting at the highest levels of the company which would then filter down, making it into a real team effort instead of individual fiefdoms with varying degrees of loyalty to the top.

Ownership did not take too kindly to being told that *they* were the actual problem, all else paled in comparison to that fact, so their response was to never speak of the seminar again.

We all pretended that it never happened when Boss Man was within earshot. We all discussed the ramifications of what we were told amongst ourselves.

The smarter ones immediately made their plans to leave, many left that year for greener pastures, I was gone inside of two years.

Those with more invested in the firm, longer years of service and senior level management...most of them went down with the ship.

And I just love the Rah! Rah! type of motivational bullshit, it is amazing to me how many supposedly intelligent people, successful people, pay a ton of dough to have some sports star who's never done anything other than hit a ball really well tell them how to run their business.

Astounding.

I met Franco Harris that way, nice guy, huge hands, didn't know beans about management, but told us some great football stories.