Still a recovering RC...

It's in the news...

Vatican says Benedict no longer an organ donor

Pope Benedict is no longer an organ donor....

Because his body belongs to the church....

And it is better that his organs become relics.....

Rather than help someone in need.....

Gotta love the church...

Or not....

Peyton PHlaCe Antics....

In an earlier post I mentioned a recent survey that supposedly measures Employee Engagement at Peyton PHlaCe.


I think I initially misunderstood what the term Employee Engagement means to upper management....

I believe I have it figured out now....

They (UM types) wanted to hear from us who we thought was doing the worst job being a manager....

They needed to know this so that they could then promote our choices up a level....

Just to ensure that these Engaged managers could have the power to practice their Engaging management techniques at a higher level....

Or maybe Empoyee Engagement just does not matter as much to UM as they would like us to believe....

Otherwise.....

Why would they promote someone (known as EG for the purpose of this post) who....

• Got all time low engagment scores....

• Treats some of his people like shit...who IMHO are least deserving of being treated like shit...

• Puts others on a pedestal...who IMHO are least deserving of being on that pedestal ...

• Regularly badmouths his people publicly in front of their coworkers....
• Publicly proclaims that tasks assigned to some of us peons (yours truly included) are simple and require little effort.....

• Is fast to point out mistakes of judgement (in his opinion) of coworkers on his own level in what I perceive as a shameful attempt to ensure himself a spot on the high end of that bell curve....

Seriously....
This guy insisted on taking over a functional group (FG) because he did not feel that they were producing the deliverables that his team needed them to produce....

During his tenure as FG manager, the deliverables expected from the FG were redefined to be substabtially less than they were previously....

A few months later, a reorganization placed said FG under a different supervisor - one on the same level as EG.

Suddenly, tho not surprising to yours truly, EG decides the the requirements from said FG are way less than they ought to be and lays blame on the new manager.....

Until a few months later, EG again assumes responsibilty for the FG.

Suddenly, and again not surprising to yours truly, EG redefines deliverables expected from the FG  to be substabtially less than they were previously....

And EG names a team lead for the FG who is so much like himself  that that move came as no surprise to yours truly.

And for this he gets a promotion....

And it effects yours truly.

I am not surprised....

Just very, very, very disappointed in Peyton PHlaCe UM.....

And I am thinking I need to update my resume.....

I am definitely not one of EG's favorite people....

Probably because I have a bad habit of seeing EG's actions for what they are and calling him on them....

Which was ok before he got this most recent promotion...

For all you dads out there...

A friend told me his daughter just walked into the living room and said:

"Dad cancel my allowance, rent my room out, throw all my clothes out of the window, take my TV, stereo, iPhone and jewelry to the charity shop.

Sell my car, take my front door key and throw me out of the house". 

Well she didn't actually put it like that... 

She said:

"Dad this is my new boyfriend, Mohammed."

Kind of reminds me of my Dad...

Not that I ever brought home a Mohammed, but no one I brought home was good enough....



Thanks to CoachRick for sharing...

My entries are in....

For Pa Rock's Dead Pool 2011....


Know that I do not do much research at all when picking names of celebrities that I think may die in 2011...


I do not keep up with their personal life enough to care...


My life is exciting enough.....


Anyway....


This morning I am bored, sitting on my couch, fighting a cold....


When I realized that if I am going to do this I had better do it today....


So I googled "sick celebrities"...


Because I only get points if they actually die and I need to give myself a chance....


And then I googled "young celebrities"...


Because the younger they are when they die the more points I get....


And then I threw in Obama for the heck of it....


So without further ado....


Phillipia's entries in Pa Rock's Dead Pool 2011:

Charlie Sheen

Jimmy Buffett

George Clooney 

President Obama 

Zsa Zsa Gabor 

apl.de.ap of Black Eyed Peas

Michael Douglas

Will Smith

Justin Timberlake

Jennifer Aniston

Wish me luck....


Or not...