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Created by japie > 9 months ago, 4 Jun 2011
japie
NSW, 7146 posts
4 Jun 2011 3:39PM
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Having been in the workforce for longer than I care to remember I have a collection of memories of ridiculous management decisions and actions, non of which surpass this.

Can you do better?

I came into work one day at Oversize Transport in Perth to be met by the trip co-ordinator, himself a complete and utter wally, busting at the seams to relate the latest in a series of gormless events.

He showed me the management meeting room table, upon which lay a number of towels. The previous evening at a celebratory meeting for the purchase of a low loader the business owner,(Jehovahs witness and long since gone, from the business, surprise surprise), made the statement that Jesus had washed the feet of his disciples in order to demonstrate his humility. She then produced the towels, asked them to remove their shoes and proceeded to wash the attendees feet.

What can you say?

Gobsmacked!

Gwendy
SA, 472 posts
4 Jun 2011 4:33PM
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Is she hot?......What other acts would she be prepared to perform to demonstrate her humility?

japie
NSW, 7146 posts
4 Jun 2011 6:05PM
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^Humility is what you would feel if you were sprung by your mates

pepe47
WA, 1382 posts
4 Jun 2011 4:38PM
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If she had a respirator she could have done mine

bjw
QLD, 3691 posts
4 Jun 2011 6:57PM
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You told her about the Tinea after right?

Gwendy
SA, 472 posts
4 Jun 2011 6:51PM
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japie said...

Having been in the workforce for longer than I care to remember I have a collection of memories of ridiculous management decisions and actions, non of which surpass this.

Can you do better?

I came into work one day at Oversize Transport in Perth to be met by the trip co-ordinator, himself a complete and utter wally, busting at the seams to relate the latest in a series of gormless events.

He showed me the management meeting room table, upon which lay a number of towels. The previous evening at a celebratory meeting for the purchase of a low loader the business owner,(Jehovahs witness and long since gone, from the business, surprise surprise), made the statement that Jesus had washed the feet of his disciples in order to demonstrate his humility. She then produced the towels, asked them to remove their shoes and proceeded to wash the attendees feet.

What can you say?

Gobsmacked!




That doesn't seem like a business decision to me, its more of a bizarre display of the nuances of a rather weird religious cult......... So is she hot?

bjw
QLD, 3691 posts
4 Jun 2011 7:30PM
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Was her name Peggy Bundy?

adolf
1862 posts
4 Jun 2011 5:45PM
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I had a manager last year that gave 20 of us a mirror with a mustache glued onto it wrapped in brown paper.

We had this informal get together with some drinks in some dumb bar after work. We were summoned upstairs for a meeting where we unwrapped our presents and then he proceeded to tell us we should look at ourselves differently.

fricken tool.

japie
NSW, 7146 posts
4 Jun 2011 7:50PM
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Gwendy said...

japie said...




That doesn't seem like a business decision to me, its more of a bizarre display of the nuances of a rather weird religious cult......... So is she hot?


Nah, she may have been. Her daughter was ok but with a mum like that you would have to think twice about permanency.

japie
NSW, 7146 posts
4 Jun 2011 8:01PM
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adolf said...

I had a manager last year that gave 20 of us a mirror with a mustache glued onto it wrapped in brown paper.

We had this informal get together with some drinks in some dumb bar after work. We were summoned upstairs for a meeting where we unwrapped our presents and then he proceeded to tell us we should look at ourselves differently.

fricken tool.


That is the sort of stuff I am looking for

I had the gross misfortune to work for Carter Holt Harvey before a small incident which resulted in a wrongfull dismissal case (which I won).

They had a system, stuffed if I can remember what it was called, but every year they ran a poll of all workers as to their attitude toward the company. The results were consistently ****ehouse. The personnel dingbat sat us down one day and told us how bad it was,(like we did not know), and then asked us how we were going to make things better for the shareholders

He told us the company took the process very seriously - they were spending $1.5mil per annum running it and they wanted results.

Of course we all chipped in and the shares shyrocketed



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