Gulch management met yesterday evening to discuss the future of the chicken operation. All agree it’s been a success overall and should expand. Ian even plans to do something interestingly* experimental next summer. But there do need to be some personnel changes.
In my professional experience, “personnel changes” is boss-speak for “Joel is fired.” But in this case the personnel under discussion is Upgrayedd, who will be leaving the firm to spend more time with his ancestors. We appreciate that he has given the role of rooster his whole attention and a great deal of enthusiasm, but management (and all the hens) have concluded that the position just hasn’t proven to be a good fit for his personality type.
We all wish him well in his new opportunity as the main attraction at an upcoming supper.
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*And by interesting, of course I mean probably lethal.
Too funny. 🙂 Reminds me of the time our general manager attempted to “explain” an upcoming change at a nurses staff meeting. She went on and on in this general vein… and had nearly everyone pretty upset (those who didn’t understand corporate speak), then smiled and left the room.
As clinical supervisor, it was my great pleasure to announce that what she really said was that our old copy machine (which everyone hated) would be replaced with a very nice new one. The catch was that it would take a day or two for the new one to come, and in the meantime we had to put up with the crappy one we’d been cursing for months.
Turned out very well… except for the old copy machine, of course. We would all have loved to have the opportunity to chop it into little pieces. Lots of stress in that job…
Joel … you may have spent a year or two too many in the corporate world. Do they have rehab for that?
ML and Joel — Damn funny!
Harsh, man. But I wish you’d been in charge of the fedgov furloughs.
Saw a poster once that comes to mind often. It featured an illustration of a grizzled and surly looking cowboy and the caption said “There’s a lot of things they didn’t tell me when I signed onto this outfit.” Seems it’s turtles all the way down from there!