Managerial Incompetence: How common is it?

[Dauphin]

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[Dauphin]

I try my best to be an incompetent manager in order to quicken my promotion to partner.

[Asher]

Excellent demonstration with the double-post. Do you do that with your emails as well?

[Dauphin]

I click reply all when I receive e-mails sent to the entire office.

[Asher]

Do you send out a meeting invite and then update it a dozen or two times before cancelling and rebooking it for the same day?

[Dauphin]

Don't be silly, we have team secretaries to do that for us.

[Japher]

I like setting the meeting reminder for 15 minutes after the start of the meeting. I also check the "show time as free" box so that you can double book.

[Asher]

I'm forced to be on a million conference calls I don't need to be on. All the time.

So double-booking is a necessity. I'll frequently be in a meeting (that I don't need to be in, but am required to) with my bluetooth earpiece on with a teleconference on (that I don't need to be on, but am required to), while I work on my laptop (and by work, I mean post on Poly).

[loinburger]

My favorite was when the idiot secretary sent out FWD FWD FWD WARNING VIRUS ALERT emails to everybody on the department/division/directorate mailing list, after which a dozen helpful idiots would reply-to-all "This is a hoax."

One time the director sent out a managerial job opening to everybody on the directorate mailing list, and some moron replied-to-all with his resume.

[Japher]

At least he didn't reply with a pic of the hiring manager with his secretary. We had something similar happen once; manager sent nude pics of himself to the entire company on accident, when he meant to send it to his mistress only, who in turn was one of his employees who was experiencing rapid career advancement.

[-Jrabbit]

Classic.

And congrats to Asher on smilutaneously attending two meetings while Polyposting -- taking multitasking to new levels of inefficiency. I can only hope he tweets about it.