*rawr* (stupid CEOs)
Ah, two weeks of paid vacation from work was nice. Sadly enough, it only took a week for the insanity to being once more.
Yesterday CEOlady and Carol cornered Step-on-me (supervisor) in her office and had a very scary (at least from marketing/sales POV from across the hall) hour-long discussion. Granted, it could just be a meeting, but normal meetings take place in Carol's office or CEOlady's office. So, understandably, we were all pretty much very curious and fearful.
After they quickly departed Step-on-me's office and slunk back down to their dungeons, Piper (coworker) snuck over to see what all the hub-ub was about. And then Piper disappeared for an hour-long meeting.
Clark and I were VERY intrigued now.
Piper returns from the venture across the hall and informs us that CEOlady and Carol felt they couldn't 'express' themselves to Piper--or any of us marketing people apparently--and had to 'express' what they wanted changed on the brochure to Step-on-me for an hour.
Now previous to this discovery that the CEOlady and Carol felt like they couldn't 'express' their desired changes to Piper, the marketing department was told that we need to work on our attitudes (ie: we need to talk to people more and interact with CEOlady and Carol--amongst others).
Is is just me, or do these sound like contradicting requirements? We have to talk to CEOlady and Carol more often, but they can't express themselves to us? Perhaps I should just walk around their dungeon area and talk loudly to myself--hoping they're listening? Or, even better, walk into their office with a message, go back to my office, watch as they go into talk to Step-on-me, and wait for Step-on-me to come into my office and tell me their response.
My gawd, and here we are supposedly focusing on efficiencies.
Yesterday CEOlady and Carol cornered Step-on-me (supervisor) in her office and had a very scary (at least from marketing/sales POV from across the hall) hour-long discussion. Granted, it could just be a meeting, but normal meetings take place in Carol's office or CEOlady's office. So, understandably, we were all pretty much very curious and fearful.
After they quickly departed Step-on-me's office and slunk back down to their dungeons, Piper (coworker) snuck over to see what all the hub-ub was about. And then Piper disappeared for an hour-long meeting.
Clark and I were VERY intrigued now.
Piper returns from the venture across the hall and informs us that CEOlady and Carol felt they couldn't 'express' themselves to Piper--or any of us marketing people apparently--and had to 'express' what they wanted changed on the brochure to Step-on-me for an hour.
Now previous to this discovery that the CEOlady and Carol felt like they couldn't 'express' their desired changes to Piper, the marketing department was told that we need to work on our attitudes (ie: we need to talk to people more and interact with CEOlady and Carol--amongst others).
Is is just me, or do these sound like contradicting requirements? We have to talk to CEOlady and Carol more often, but they can't express themselves to us? Perhaps I should just walk around their dungeon area and talk loudly to myself--hoping they're listening? Or, even better, walk into their office with a message, go back to my office, watch as they go into talk to Step-on-me, and wait for Step-on-me to come into my office and tell me their response.
My gawd, and here we are supposedly focusing on efficiencies.
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