Grey Sky

The sky was all grey yesterday.. and so was the office and the ceiling above cat's work desk. Grey, the color that represents the mood of depressed and anxious people.

Grey also was the color of Lion's aura. The darkest grey ever. Yesterday was another day of learning the great wisdom of working life and people management. 'We should all be following Prof Lawrence Kersten's ideology, that is: Treat the Staff like dirt because they certainly are.' Those great words were ringing in our ears and goes like this:
To believe that your staffs are naturally good and productive is stupid. Staffs are basically soft option seeking slackers. We should stop trying to make the staffs happy, motivated and rewarded. We will still get as much good results from them if we make them unmotivated, scared, unhappy and insecure and.. it will cost us a lot less! All those motivational classes will only make the staffs big headed and give them a sense of 'entitlement' that they thought the company owes them.

In the old days, he continued, we were afraid of our bosses. They pushed us to our maximum and we, the juniors also tried our best to get our bosses respect. Nowadays, the motivational industry is making you & them all soft.. no determination, no ideas or intelligence. They are all so filled with self importance, cannot be scolded.. and as a result they all do not have the necessary skills to do this job professionally.

Staffs are not the biggest asset for a company but a liability. They bring their personal problems to work, they get involved in petty politics, they resist changes and complaint about every minor difficulties while demanding more and more from the company. Time for all this to stop! You all must learn how to crack the whip. Learn to create a distance between management and staffs. This will keep them anxious and on their toes. We only need their contributions, the employees who make them are not!

Learn early that you must curb their ego minds. Teach them to be humble. If an ego driven staff offers an idea at a meeting, you slapped them down by cutting his idea mid way and turns to question another staff on another subject. Give also that 'egoistic' staff 'unimportant, demeaning' tasks to teach them to be humble. Create an anxiety in that staff simply by making his/her name the last one to appear in the cc list. The last trick that you all need to practice is : wipe your hands after shaking hands with a staff even by simply wiping your hands on your clothes, just to remind them that they represent a contamination. Go back and please have the time to read this book ' The Art of Demotivation' by Prof Kersten. Remember: Sometimes, the best solutions to morale problems is to fire all the unhappy people.

Lots of gaping mouths in the board room and one very very grey cat sitting there. A sense of deja vu.. the scenes in the examples were exactly what cat experienced previously.

Hmm.. and why is it that cat is still here? Why? Hmm.. cat is also bewildered about this..each time cat decided to try her luck elsewhere, fate always make cat stays. Whether because of sickness or further advancement, there are always things to stop cat on her tracks. Or maybe God just wants cat to stay here and continue being a thorn in the lion's paw. (grin) A hate-hate situation but where we do not have the choice but to be in each other's way. Come what may.. cat is just going to bear and grin it.

Grey is the color of the sky. And Grey is the weather in this animal kingdom. Sigh.. when is cat going to be as wise as the owl who has flown to another lair?

Signing off,
Cat
** P/s: Some people might have the same sense of deja vu reading this post but please note that cat is saying that it certainly has no link with any human dead or alive. It's just a fragment of the animal kingdom (smile)**