Tuesday, 8 April 2008

Fried Dumplings

Was on one of those management courses again. This time the instructor was the same as another one

Here’s a dialogue that took place in the course. They were trying to list out some factors in our work we aren’t able to control.

Instr: OK, #9, we’ve come to “bosses”. Can you give an example of how you would cope with not being able to control your bosses?

#9: Yeh. Like you manage their expectations.

Instr: OK, how would you go around managing their expectations?

#9: Like I write them a nice letter, see, and thereafter they no longer expect me to turn up for work.


Later on I was talking to one of those guys at my table, and he was telling us about this time somebody in his office threw a security pass at his manager’s face. I thought, whoa, that’s a little dramatic, but his department, being a frontline department is a very dramatic place. I asked him if that counted as a resignation. He said, “I don’t know, it could be a resignation or a firing, but what we do know is that they called the security guards to escort him out of the premises.”

So I said, it’s unlikely I’ll know the name of the guy who threw the security pass. But do you know the guy he threw the pass at? Then that guy said, well I work for him. Anyway it’s fried dumplings. Fried dumplings! I whistled… well heck no wonder.

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