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Under-Qualified Workers |
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I partially agree with you |
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05/09/2001 |
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I hope your not typical of most secretaries and women I hear complain. Even guys get into this inside an office. Comparing themselves and figuring that they are better than others. Yes, these things are true, but from your post your don't seem intent on helping by doing what your boss wants you to do. Are you paid to do what your told or to second guess your boss? Sounds like you may get some pleasure from bitching like so many others.
Where I work there's probably 30% - 50% dead weight. Dead weight (unproductive people) are dead weight because:
1. They are not on a project that can use their skills, because management is clueless how to use their limited skills.
2. They don't have many skills but were hired and given a chance. When they should have been fired because they were not fit for the job, their bosses failed the company and instead kept them. - This often happens because the management was afraid of lawsuits, contracts, affirmative action, sexual discrimination, etc. or they were not compitent enough to fire them.
3. The quota of employees for "fake" processes and jobs will give strength and "reason for existance" . . . . Meaning power to the managers above. IN other words, from a manager's (selfish) perpective it's better to have a team of incompetents that you can manage and be a boss, than not have a team and be out of a job.
The end result of this type of culture is a bunch of losers and gripers who end up complaining constantly instead of doing their job. Also, those who can do their job, like you (I'm guessing), end up getting leached on by the (quota for having more people) types who can't do their own work. So what, it happens everywhere, get over it.
What is the end result, a bunch of secretary types who (think they run the business) think that they can do better than their bosses, but don't have the guts to get a better job somewhere else. This is ultimately because many people who gripe actually like to gripe, but in reality griping won't help you a bit. It just becomes a part of your lifestyle if you continue to do it. You'd rather gripe than help.
(Your job is to do what your boss tells you to do unless you have a contract that says otherwise, so it's time to grow up and get over it.)
If you realize that the dynamics of the office are tilted toward lying and other "people skills" which are actually a survival mentality mindset, you'll realize that the Peter Principle is still in full swing and learn to ignore it.
Those companies without strong managers who understand what is petty politics vs. what is actual performance will in the end lose as will their companies, if the companies are in a true competitive market.
If you think you are skilled enough join the real workforce where competition is valued and real value is rewarded. These companies are actually few and far between. Those who are in companies that have monopolies (government, some large utility companies, etc) have really no reason to gripe, because the corporate culture of those environments is protected from true competition.
You have basically three choices, as everyone on these job boards. 1. Roll with the punches and ignore most of the petty stuff. 2. Join the kiss-up club (be abused) by finding a boss whos an ally at work and will give you a cushy job with few responsibilities (allowing you to give your work to others) or 3. move on to a different company (where you'll ultimately end up B.Sing about the injustices there).
Good luck,
Straight shooter
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there's a lot of dead wood, everywher in Corporate America, I agree, there's nothing that you and I can do about it, at this point in time. Every team hets is, just deal with it and ignore. They will not go that far in life.
I do disagree about "doing what you are told", unless you are a clerk, since I want to believe that people who are not dead wood, were hired for their brain. Maybe you meant to say: do the job that you were hired to do, and if you can't do it, leave! That's better.
I have to add, that even clerks can use their brain, and excel at their tasks, and take in additional responsibilities, so that can better their career.
bye bye
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