Tuesday, October 09, 2007

My 'Professional' Nickname

I don't think I am a pleasant person to work with. I'm a perfectionist who does not tolerate failure. You know all those motivational quotes and management styles that explain how you learn from your mistakes? yeah, I don't buy this bullshit. Mistakes ARE mistakes, you shouldn't do them. Comprende?

I try to mange this sadistic-side of my personality as much as possible, but the moment I start to see someone slacking off, it's showtime. A few weeks back, I locked on such a target. It was one of the vendors I work with, my ' global vendor'. They were slacking off and the service they were offering me was becoming worse by the day. So it began, I invested so much energy in tracking everything to the utter most detail. I then kicked-off the shock and awe campaign, where I waged war on all fronts, picking up all the issues and scrutinizing them. It didn't take long until the weakest links broke. Two engineers broke under my pressure and basically did some seriously wrong actions. Two managers then followed suite in two fully documented cases. My work was almost complete, I had to go for the knock-out. All of this was escalated in a cunningly evil communication plan, that targeted all the major decision makers. It was so beautiful. Major restructures are now happening, major interventions, people changing jobs ...etc.

I'm not a bad guy, I just don't tolerate failure. But if someone needs to be the bad guy to expose a certain failure, I'd gladly do it. Sources inside my 'global vendor' tell me that they gave me an internal nickname, it's: The Bloodhound.

I think I like it.

8 comments:

Embee said...

I think Matt Groening can now plan for the uber grand demise of Mr Burns. He has a very decent successor !

Fesh said...

Exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxcellent
*EFPoC(tm)

Forsoothsayer said...

i find it difficult to imagine u doing this, but ishta.

Fesh said...

*TING*
*Halo appears above Fesh's head.

Oh, me? Off course I was kidding. I am not that kind of person.

Jade said...

Sexy....

Fesh said...

*TING*
*Halo goes away, two evil horns come out. Neptune's fork and all.

I'm that kind of person.

Jade said...

I know.

Fesh said...

okay, now you're scaring me.