Perhaps I’ve mentioned this before but I feel the need to discuss it anyway. It’s about pussies, no not the lovely ones that can capture a man’s complete attention but rather the pejorative ones. Those little losers who were pussies from K through 12 and are now still pussies but something happened that metamorphosed them into tyrants.
You know them, I know them, I was one of them. The ones that were teased, beaten and harassed through their entire school experience. Their entire school life was basically nightmares. I know, I was a ghost in high school. In elementary school, the girls would beat me up. So I understand where they are coming from. It’s still painful. But I grew out of it. In all senses of the expressions. I’m no longer a child and no longer act like one either.
Fear Me
In my career I am faced with many children in their thirties and forties and it’s really reaching a critical mass. Because what’s happened is that these pussies have becomes people with jobs and positions. Sometimes positions with power and they think this gives them license to be the bullies they feared and loathed in their childhood with impunity.
The only reason they can be such bullies is because the social contract doesn’t allow civilized adults to fight back to people higher in the chain of authority. And they enjoy and relish in torturing their workers like it was a sport, like a cat chasing the diminutive mouse. And as the good consultant -which I often write as “cuntsultant” with the way we are treated – I have to sit there and shut the fuck up and take the harassment, insults, degradation and humiliation by these fucking broken tyrants with the emotional maturity of 5 year-olds.
Sure I’m running little scenarios in my head that would make Dexter Morgan proud of me, because I was that kid also when I was in school; I was the one taking the beatings and well I’ve had enough of it thank you very much and now in my thirties I have to go through it but from the weaklings with a title that haven’t grown out of it yet?
So you got your ass kicked as a kid. Big Fucking Deal. Suck it up big boy and get the fuck over it. Your need for revenge on oblivious people is pointless and makes you look weak. I’m here to do business not be your punching bag or your therapist. Time to move on.
What’s worse about these power-trippy pussies hiding behind their position is that their new found bullishness trickles down to the rest of their team and results in inefficiency and lack of morale. I’ve seen it with every client I’ve worked for. When losers try to build their little kingdom inside a company it inevitably fails.
It takes one uncontrollable tyrant overtaken by his childhood trauma, fear and instability. Then those fears and instabilities trickle down into the team because they are always running around confused like prairie dogs on alert with only the prime directive of not getting the boss angry. Well somewhere, the mission is lost here. The goal is to get the work done, not keep the boss from getting angry. What is the result of losing the mission? The results are rarely achieved and the underlings are then blamed for this failure of course.
It’s all very sad that you were someone’s whipping boy during your childhood but really, I don’t care. I don’t have to take the brunt of your anger. You’re angry? Congratulations. We all got issues. Some of us deal with them maturely. Don’t take it out on your workers, your suppliers, and anyone else whose working along with you to achieve a common goal. A true leader can abstract his emotions and his delusions of importance from the process.
I’m tired of working with children, screaming, mindless, uncontrollable little retards who can’t get over that fact that some stole their yogurt cup back in kindergarten. I’ve seen VPs bitch-fighting for whose firm is the best at a client meeting and I’m the one that has to go through training about client management; directors screaming at each other and managers threatening each other with bodily harm. What the fuck is going on? Can’t we just get on with the business?
I, too, have worked with these pussies. What’s worse are those who think that because their tyrannical methods worked at a previous company, they can take them and apply them at new ones. Luckily, I don’t have that problem now.
hang in there buddy, I feel your pain…
I feel your pain too! I just cannot stand to have a boss like this. And, honestly, I’ve always preferred working with mens.
JON, good on ya. Seriously!
Vanou. Thank You!
AT. Men and Women, both the same. Different types of bullies, but bullies just the same. Both are hurt little children inside taking it out on the world. And Thanks