Comment by HenryBemis

Comment by HenryBemis 4 days ago

  Bat shit crazy management = top management's strategic goals were frequently updated
  We did everything in Excel = tooling was not optimal, budget restrictions limited out tech
  My manager was a fucking moron = although we had different approaches on topics, we worked to complement one-another, for much better outcomes

But basically as other(s) said, don't focus on "they were assholes" but (whatever YOU did in some nice detail) "I updated the SOP to deliver X, Y, _and_ Z using so-and-so, and at half the time, freeing up 0.25 FTE that we collaborated to enhancing A, B, _and_ C operations.

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 3 days ago

My work buddy has a gift for corporate speak. We were toying with the idea of preparing an updated 'english to corporate' dictionary.

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stoneman24 3 days ago

I think that in the fullness of time, at the appropriate juncture, I could circle back to that. Leveraging such a resource would confer significant benefits to my own abilities to contribute my opinions to the woefully inadequate management outreach program.
My current style of communication has failed to gain much traction when managers have run it up the flag pole. That’s always assuming that people had any interest in other viewpoints, rather than their own sacred long standing beliefs.

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alabastervlog 3 days ago

These kinds of interview questions mostly test whether you understand that you’re supposed to, ahem, perform your stories a certain way, and are willing and able to so-perform them.

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