In the brief interlude since my last post, we have had a few things happen. If you don't recall from reading the back catalog, my present place of employment is a small start-up. Our HQ is in a metropolis far, far away, and the company lab that is supposed to support our plant is far, far away in another metropolis far, far away from HQ. One reason. Greed. Basically, one founder wanted to live one place and the other founder wanted to live in the other place. Neither was the CEO. One wanted to build a company. One wanted to get rich. Neither will get what they wanted. I wrote here that we ran out of money. That was the first blow, because people rarely work gratis. Most of the process engrs were let go, and since they were young and process engrs, they got jobs elsewhere. The knowledge that we pushed out the door was replaced, for better or worse, by the operators who survived the purge. Seeing that his vision wo...
Middle management is a purgatory between regular working stiffs on one side and the exalted upper management gods on the other. This is a faux guidebook for those of us stuck in the middle. Read carefully. Don't be the pointy-haired boss...