There are some things in this world that I am pretty certain of...beets taste like dirt, there are 7 continents, sneezing too loud is annoying, whales are mammals and excessive use of metaphors when communicating a vision for a business plan sounds ridiculous. I get it- when rolling out something new, calling your "troops" to action you want to be inspiring but, really?! How many damn gold rings am I gonna reach for!? How many mountains am I gonna climb? And must we keep marvelling at the extra degree [of effort] needed to make water boil? I don't think the degree is extra, actually, it's just the temperature at which water boils. It like has to be there. It's not extra and no one is cooking. Today I had to think about "cogs" all day! I can't just be made clear on the key components for success? There just seems to be a lot of time wasted on "dressing" up language to say, "We have a lot crap to do. You need to understand X, Y, Z to do it. It must be accomplished in X time frame and don't get all discouraged or confused when annoying problems crop up along the way." Done. Meeting adjourned. Then teach us the stuff we need to know to do it and don't make us do weird activities to learn it...we were asked to toss yarn today. Yes, yarn. A puppet made an appearance too. I appreciate the effort to keep things "fun" but if my employer thinks that those are the kind of gimmicks needed to engage their workforce I'm kinda offended. I am a serious, important person who does serious, important things on and off the job. I can never be addressed by a puppet again or I will...I will...probably do absolutely nothing about it but still it's just really unnecessary.
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