yeah, dilbert is frighteningly go[o]d because
i have seen or been in precisely those toxic situations in big yank companies, from both sides of the management fence.
re the latter cartoon, i've been in the opposite position, where a guy in a key position had bullshitted everyone and as a result left the entire company fucked for over 6 months just on catchup duty and screwed up the entire sales strategy permanently (the window closed), and was noted by everyone to spend the entire day surfing, every day, before leaving early as per his arrangement for family reasons. but on pulling his network activity logs from IT, they were so meaningless we could "Prove" nothing. then a momentary oversight by HR (aka sloppiness by the hr boss in advising her up&comer guru (hmm...) ) meant i couldn't sack him and had to embark on a protracted hr-arsecovering process of "close management", then he jumped ship to another company at a higher salary by telling them his responsibilities rather than his performance, then less than a year later our company bought that company and he was back under our roof.
fortunately, i'd left by then. saved me from a gaol sentence, methinks
Posted by
syl_DUPE1, around 24th November 2005:
Sometimes it's a pity it's not like the old days when you could just sack a person; people like that take advantage of the whole hr thing.
