Wednesday, June 8, 2011

When Your Job Is Killing You Slowly


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The Ballad of Crazypants

  • Crazypants refuses to pay for services the business needs.
  • Crazypants makes unilateral decisions without consulting the team she’s hired to execute those decisions, who know more about the day-to-day running of the business than Crazypants does.
  • Crazypants likes to take rapid freak turns off the project highway, such as demanding my friend choose a new mailing list service the night before sending out a newsletter.
  • Crazypants takes advantage of her employees’ desire to do good work in order to get away with chaotic management (at best!).
  • Crazypants takes credit for her employees’ ideas — not only to clients and other outsiders, but even inside the company.
  • Crazypants does her damnedest to control and intimidate her employees.

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