Friday, February 5, 2010

Questions and Answers (again)

You incessantly blather about headquarters – specifically the lack of any ability to make a decision. Are you actually asserting that no decisions are ever made at headquarters?

Of course not. Sometimes an executive steps in and makes a decision…

So there!

…. to sack people who ask questions. Sometimes, by a quantum-mechanical fluke, an actual decision is disgorged. For example, our company, reacting to the global economic downturn, cancelled orders, closed factories and drove partners into bankruptcy – thereby assuring our profitability for the year.

Well done.

Unfortunately, the economic downturn wasn’t as bad as expected and when things turned around, we couldn’t get product. For some reason our ‘partners’ preferred to deal with other customers. But we’re not worried; the person who made the hard decision to close everything was rewarded with a promotion and will now be responsible for cleaning up the mess.

Did you really shuffle between Terminals 1,4 and 5 and gates A and B at Heathrow?

No. I took the train – except for the walk from Gates B to Gates A at Terminal 5.

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