Night Off
For the first time since I started here a week ago I have a night off. So far the MBA classes ahave been exactly what I was hoping for. The team part of it all makes it pretty challenging but teams are a fact of life for most work environments so if I can do well in this one I should do well anywhere. That being said I've never been on a team of smarter people. I'm definitely dragging down the average GMAT score of the group.
Today was stats and organizational behaviour. Stats was brief and practical and organizational behaviour was for the most part a discussion about people’s worst job experiences.
My favourite was that one guy worked at a company where the employees stopped receiving their pay cheques. The company blamed it on a bank change. When it happened again the next week they pulled everyone into one room where the CEO was on the speaker phone. He went into a metaphor about how the company was in rough waters and that it had to lose some weight if it wanted to stay afloat. So the HR manager went around the room calling names and telling those people that they were fired. At the end of the list she read out her own name. The storyteller was spared but didn’t stick around long.
Tomorrow is the first meeting of the Environment Club and I’m anxious to see how many, if anyone, shows up. I’ve had some interest so hopefully it’s more than a one man club. I’ve also thrown my hat in for faculty liaison on the student executive. I was running uncontested until this morning when two others joined the race for the same position. I guess acclimation was too much to ask for.
I’ve joined the more traditional clubs of management consulting and marketing as these are career areas that, based on MBTI and other tests, I’m supposed to investigate. Who new that I was into “Creative Production”.
This picture is a computer generated forecast of what I might look like if I worked in management consulting for the next ten years.
Today was stats and organizational behaviour. Stats was brief and practical and organizational behaviour was for the most part a discussion about people’s worst job experiences.
My favourite was that one guy worked at a company where the employees stopped receiving their pay cheques. The company blamed it on a bank change. When it happened again the next week they pulled everyone into one room where the CEO was on the speaker phone. He went into a metaphor about how the company was in rough waters and that it had to lose some weight if it wanted to stay afloat. So the HR manager went around the room calling names and telling those people that they were fired. At the end of the list she read out her own name. The storyteller was spared but didn’t stick around long.
Tomorrow is the first meeting of the Environment Club and I’m anxious to see how many, if anyone, shows up. I’ve had some interest so hopefully it’s more than a one man club. I’ve also thrown my hat in for faculty liaison on the student executive. I was running uncontested until this morning when two others joined the race for the same position. I guess acclimation was too much to ask for.
I’ve joined the more traditional clubs of management consulting and marketing as these are career areas that, based on MBTI and other tests, I’m supposed to investigate. Who new that I was into “Creative Production”.
This picture is a computer generated forecast of what I might look like if I worked in management consulting for the next ten years.
posted by Deac at 9:06 PM
5 Comments:
Deac, I think you are already a one man environmental club.
Six others turned out so I was not alone!
It is still my contention that this environmental crap Deac spews is a sham - FACT!
ps. Global Warming - MYTH!
I will not be brought into a discussion whose sole purpose is to antagonise me.
That being said the goal of the environmental club is to have people in future positions of power care about the environment.
We'll get to you some other time Dan.
My position as Environmental Climatologist at the North American Center for Atmospeheric Observation and Factualization (NACAOF) actually makes me a little bit more of a "source" on the subject of the environment that say someone who is the founding member of a ficitious club at a hayseed university.
Further, my opinions on evolution, the big bang and the moon landing shall remain untainted from your propoganda and rhetoric - fact is they are all lies.
I just threw a gingerale can away, HA!
(the above are the ravings of a lunatic)
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