No Joke, You Suck!

A young executive was leaving the office at 6 p.m. when he found the CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand.

"Listen," said the CEO, "this is a very sensitive and important document, and my secretary has left. Can you make this thing work?"

"Certainly," said the young executive. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button.

"Excellent, excellent!" said the CEO as his paper disappeared inside the machine. "I just need one copy."

Ok, so that was a joke but my company isn't joking now. About 6 months ago, all the employees had to fill out an anonymous questionairre about the company and how we felt about different aspects of it. One section was devoted to our management and oh boy did we let them have it. The Gravel Pit employees graded them so harshly, the upper management has decided to send all the middle management to classes for the next 5 weeks to teach them how to be better managers. Um...so why isn't upper management going too?

I don't get it. You all know how Upper Management is. Well see for yourself.

Upper management is what groomed the middle management to be the way they are so wouldn't it make sense to start at the top and work down?

Normally I would be laughing at the fact that my boss has to do this but what it really means is I will be covering for him and working twice as hard while he's gone...where's that damn survey again!!!!