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Real Office antics
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Folks,
I was reminded of a real fly-on-the-wall documentary this morning that was shown a few years back about a husband and wife team in Wales who ran a double glazing outfit. They had the same humour as the Ricky Gervais “The Office” but what made it more cringeworthy was that it was 100% real.
Does anyone remember the name of it? It’s sure to be on YouTube or similar.
Any help?
Alan
Found it…thanks for all the help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Armstrongs
Well worth the look to find these videos…magical.
Alan
I’m in a real bad humour work-wise today…
If you really want to see some good ‘Office’ fly-on-the-wall type stuff I could send you a few e-mails I sent to a couple of managers in my workplace today. Jerry McGuire and the Sports Agency springs to mind.
And now 2 hours later… I’m scratching my head wondering why didn’t I stick to my trusty motto when it comes to work:
“Keep the head down, the mouth closed, take the money and run”
Another motto that applies to everything where I work is:
“You’re phooked if you do and you’re phooked if you don’t”
You say nothing… you end up p*ssed off… you say something and you end up with the same old teflon/politically fueled/bs replies from management and you end up p*ssed off.
Why is it that most workplaces are so bullsh*tty and there isn’t an ounce of openess or honesty?
Busy in my place?? Yeah, but you find that when you come from multi-national, award winning companies to a family run business that the flaws are evident and remind you daily of “The Office” type scenario only on an amateur basis. It’s not a bad place though…just funny why some people weren’t smothered at birth let alone were given positions of responsibility.
I used to work in places like that too John – too many senior people who report to senior people who report to senior people…they’d do your head in.
I just mentioned to my manager that the concepts of knowledge transfer, cross training & training in general were non-existant in our department.
He replied and told me that “I should attend more meetings”… That’s feckin great… and what about the 30 other people who feel the same way, none of who have the balls to speak up about these things and just whisper in the shadows, does the entire department come to a halt so that everyone can attend a meeting where 55 minutes of the total 60 minutes might be of some relevance to that person?
Managers eh… they can’t see past task lists, dates, resources, maintaining their corporate image and dodging bullets at all costs.
What’s that fly on the wall documentary they show on Channel4… Secret Boss or something like that(?)…. all these clueless managers should be forced to watch that as a form of training and never mind their feckin ‘influencing skills’ and the like.
Edit: T’is “Undercover Boss”… boy would I love one of them sitting with us in the canteen.
I just mentioned to my manager that the concepts of knowledge transfer, cross training & training in general were non-existant in our department
If you really want to rattle them mention that unmentionable…succession management! Freaks ’em out!
“Year on year”, “Going forward” etc…wonderful stuff. I had the joys of spending a stint in a large multi-national near the big smoke a few years back. Engineers were given free reign and LOVED Powerpoint where a phone conversation would do. But then phone conversations were always tele-conferences…which were translated to PP presentations anyway!
Keep the head down John…
Aye keep the head down… best to numb the mind… it’s the only way to survive in these places.
Great the way companies take someone with a spark and institutionalize them effectively draining the life out of them. I used to be dynamic, willing, interested & able… now I just show up, do what I have to do, a fhook home… and if a bomb hit the place tomorrow all I’d care for is my redundancy cheque.
Must do the lotto…
AAAhhhhh the lotto,
I have it done for tonight . . . .
If I won I wouldnt even ring in to say im not coming back
I can just imagine the chat a couple of years later . . .
“Yea that alan fella, what ever happened to him, nobody knows of him at all
its as if he just never existed”…
I’d turn up, collect the wages and then fec* off & say nothing. :lol: :lol:
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