It's mind boggling (as opposed to my blogging... hehe). I've got an executive manager who does not know the business. He got the job because......(I won't say it). So everytime a decision needs to be made, he either makes it arbitrarily, and gets it wrong, or he consults with the strangest people. Best part is, he's being protected by both his manager, and his managers manager. After all, who's going to admit that appointing him was a big mistake!!
So I am in a constant battle trying to keep clients happy, and get responsible guidance from him! Then there's the pricing guy, who most times will get it right. I say most times cause sometimes he really fucks up! Like today, a colleague of mine did a proposal and presented it to the client. I met with the client afterwards (we go back a long way). He lets me know that he's really concerned at the new proposal, and is going to look elsewhere. So, with my colleagues help I rerun the pricing, using basic principles, like, if it don't look right it isn't, and do it from the beginning, don't try and patch an old pricing calculation, to a new requirement. And my price (which is right I will add) is 50% cheaper than that of the bloke that does pricing!
Makes you think!
Now here's the trick question....
Of the people referred to above, who are black, and who white?
(The question is such so as to protect sensitive readers.)
Salagatle
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My feeling is that the "executive manager" will fuck it up to such an extent that, within a year, his "manager's manager" will move him onto something bigger and better, like an overseas assignment...
We both know how it works...
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