Signs your a Sheeple

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If you’ve ever converted to a religion…

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You might be a Sheeple

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And if you believe with your entire heart and soul that Donald Trump was put there by God…

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Then you’re just fucking stupid! Lol

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I was asked by the board of this company to be “in attendance” to give advice on a particular problem they were having. They are clients of mine and know I have helped similar businesses with the same problem, which is I.T. related. At the second meeting I made recommendation that would have fixed the problem based upon the first meetings findings.They then went to another party – with my actual solution and asked them to implement it. While I was not aware of this I sent in my costings to do the work. Turns out that the other company were charging 3 times what I was asking for and had already started the work. They had the nerve to ask me to take over. Business is business so I went to inspect what was done so far only to discover that the other party had not only supplied inferior equipment, but that it was no better to what they already had in place and were asking me to replace. They also incorrectly built the new database which now does not fully work but cannot be restored to the previous version which they did not even backup. It will have to be rebuilt from scratch. In order to get them to where they could have been a month ago they will now have to employ other people to do the work and it will cost them about ten times my quote and will take at least 2 months to complete. I have washed my hands of them. They are sheeple managers who read the cover of management magazines and think they know stuff because of that. Never work with greedy amateurs! I heard this morning that they intend to sue the other company for the “work” done so far even thought they are asked to leave with no notice. Idiots!

[Strega]

@regthefronkeyfarmer

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

SIR BARNETT COCKS

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I shall use that one again Strega. The main culprit is a guy who insists on being called “Rick” because he thinks he is so with it and so cool and trendy. I almost asked him if he spelt his name with a silent “P”. They are ruining their business and just cannot see it. For years they had little or no competition and their systems are so primitive that I don’t think they can survive. Many of the staff are bailing and getting new jobs. It reminds me of another quip:

Their management style is called “Mushroom Management” where they keep their workers in the dark and feed them horse manure.

[Strega]

The trick to getting through lengthy and painful meetings for me, is usually to grab the whiteboard markers, eschewing the usual black, blue  and red in favour of browns greens and even yellows.  As the lesser used coloured felt pens are usually fresher, you can get a good sniff of the solvent when you take the lid off them to draw on the whiteboard.

[Noel]

LMAO Strega!

The minute you said felt pen all I could think of. Nothing like a huff to wake up them brain cells!

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I tend to look busy taking notes when at certain meetings. The ones I organize are all held outside (of the working environment) where everyone thinks better because it is less formal than “the meeting room” unless the weather is really bad and nobody is ever seated. That way they are concise, direct and generally bullshit free. People say what needs to be said, the points are remembered because the surroundings are always a little different and then everyone just gets on with it.  OK, if it has to be a long meeting then it can be held in a meeting room but all future updates are standing up. At first clients think I am a bit weird  but many do the same now. If the felt pens don’t work I will lock them in a room and get them wrecked on bags of glue to prove I am not weird.

[Strega]

The most effective stand up meetings I ever attended were at the wine bar. You’d be amazed how much we would agree on.

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