[CLUE-Talk] interesting home business article - from slashdot

[Evan Widger]

the more you guys talk about it, the less i want to be in the corporate
marketplace. blech, sounds like dilbert on crack with a side of fries. or
something. i guess it's part of the reason i work well with computers, but
to me things boil down to being truly boolean. either they are or they
aren't. i really have a problem lying to someone's face, wether it's in a
resume, report, or whatever, i really can't lie to authority. yet another
facet of my upbringing, i'm sure, but that's just the way i am. i don't want
to get into a job by blowing stuff up some HR guy's something or rather and
get put in a position where i'm over my head and the people around me know
it and claim 'fraud!!' and i get fired for lying on my resume. (anyone see
that episode of monster house? the one where the 'electrician' wasn't? i
think it was the castle house but i don't remember, might have been the
western/cowboy one) maybe i'm to affraid of lack of knowledge, maybe i know
enough to know i know very little, maybe i'm just too humble/self
deprecating, i don't know, but i always fear being the one out of place
because i don't know enough, if that makes sense.

i leave the spin to my wife, the former journalism major. i'm a geek. i deal
with things that don't understand spin. though catch me in the right
situation and my BS generator might be going full force, i wouldn't lie on a
resume.

- Evan Widger
   PsychoI3oy at linkline.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffery Cann" <fabian at jefferycann.com>
To: <clue-talk at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Talk] interesting home business article - from slashdot


> On Saturday 26 July 2003 00:25, Matt Gushee wrote:
> >
> > Another thing is that modern corporate culture doesn't favor scrupulous
> > honesty. Although blatant dishonesty is usually not tolerated (unless
> > you're a top exec), spin and hype are more often than not considered to
> > be marks of professionalism.
>
> Very astute observation Matt.  I couldn't agree more.  At my company,
managers
> seem to favor spin - that uncomfortable grey area.  No one seems to want
to
> hide the truth or lie, but certainly everything is said 'in the best
light'.
> I can't tell you the amount of word-smithing I have done in reports for
> higher level execs.  Something is wrong, but we minimize it to the point
of
> absurdity.
>
> I'm probably too honest for a corporate culture.  I definitely think that
some
> of my managers don't like total candor.  They'll like it when you're
> face-to-face with them, behind a closed door.  But outside, there's a
> political game always playing.  Honest short-circuits the game.   Where's
the
> fun then?
>
> Jeff
> -- 
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