Frustrated by Idiot Managers?

[rabid1st]

As my brother once put it, "There is no evolutionary advantage to being intelligent...you can tell because most people default to doing what they already know how to do." He went on to point out that intelligent people think about having children and often choose not to, but people who don't think about costs, schooling and the pressures of breeding, just get on with breeding. So, intelligent genes are quickly outnumbered in the gene pool.

Here are some more smart people being all...useless...with their studies and stuff...

What a great article for the FINANCE section, read, no doubt, by a lot of middle managers who need new ideas.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-benefits-of-being-stupid-at-work-190339721.html

And, boy, I can tell you that being a problem solver for an organization just gets you headaches and lots of work and no respect. No matter how often you bail your idiot boss out of trouble, he will never truly appreciate it. Because, that's not his type of thought processing. He will think it is a magic trick...and you are a nice person, that he wants to keep nearby and use more often to help him out of trouble.

Rae
perhaps a little bitter about meetings full of squabbling, and bosses who never see the train heading for them, despite all the flashing warning signs. Since I'm retired, I should probably just let it go. LOL

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[sensiblecat.livejournal.com]

It continuously astonishes me that, because I am in contact with chidren, I have been rigorously and expensively vetted, to avoid the minute risk that I might touch one of them inappropriately, and yet the most glaring, basic safety issues are ignored by the organisation I work for on a daily basis.

I have bookshelves in my library (which is also the reception area of the school) that have collapsed several times because they haven't been properly fixed. Last week I was horrified to see the parent of a four-year-old encourage him to stand on said shelf, putting his full weight on it, in order to put some vouchers he'd collected into a box. I immediately reported the incident, and moved the box to a place within reach of small children. I also had a word with the parent. I emphasised to the Head Teacher that there really did need to be, at the very least, an email warning sent out to parents, and a notice on the shelf.

He made all the right noises. I came in next day to discover no email had been sent, and the box was where it had been before. The reason (I did actually ask).

The school administrator didn't like the box being moved, and said anybody stupid enough to let their child climb up to it deserved whatever happened.

The shelf was fixed, unpaid and without the Head Teacher's knowledge, by the husband of another member of staff.

I could go on, but you get the picture.