Corplebos

Oh my lord, could we talk more yet say less?

I know, jaded question...way to open for leaving alone. And, I could take this so many
directions. But let's start with verbal 'window dressing'. I am absolutely fed-up with
little catch phrases, designed to distract, discourage, encourage, motivate, appease or
anything else you can come up with, that have NO ACTION behind them.

Why here? Why now? Of course, from me, it is corporate bullshit. I have the pleasure of
sitting in the office right next to the VP/CEO/Bigwig of the entire division of this huge ass
company I work for. Woohoo!

Now, let me set it a little for you. I really have the only occupied office in my 'wing' of
the building. Right across the hall is the shipping/receving group, whose office door is WAAY
down the hall. Beyond the bug cheif's office is the lunchroom, again with a door WAAY down
the hall. So really, unless he is in the home office and next to me, I am the only office in
the hallway. Now Big Chief, he leaves his office door open and talks on the speaker phone
(fairly loudly I might add), so I get to hear it all. Only time this isn't true is when a
local manager comes by to visit and shuts the door behind them walking in. Bummer?

So, all day long this month, I have had the joy of listening to him talk on the phone ALL DAY
LONG. Believe me, I know bullshit and this isn't it. The man talks ALL DAY LONG. Goes from
one conference call with managers to a conversation with his assistant, to a performance
review, then a sales meeting, then a customer call (with an irate customer). Oh, wait, let's
not forget to throw in a personal call to an ISP that is charging his wife too much money for
the family Internet. Now here's the funny (and I use that term loosely) part.....All of the
conversations sound the same. Not similar, not 'kind of' like each other. Exactly the same.

'So, I think we need to leverage that aspect a bit more' 'I think we may have a disconnect on
that part of it, even though the overall concept looks mutually agreeable' 'Could be that we
may not be able to realize that right now, but we could look into means to mitigate any
adverse effects'

What the fuck is that? I mean, really? What the fuck is that?

So my head is spinning as I leave the office, thinking 'wow, that dude gets paid an ungodly
amount of money to say the same things over and over all day long'. I will admit, the
audience is different, so there are different topics at hand, but his words are EXACTLY the
same. Generic, placebic, hell, they are my phrase for the day:

Corplebos!

Later-E