Anyone who has worked with executives of the MBA variety has almost certainly run into at least a few of the cliche-spouting ignoramus variety. These folks have risen to positions of power, sometimes as the executive in charge of hundreds or even thousands of employees. Working with one of these people, if you're not one of them, can be highly entertaining. It can also be awesomely frustrating, as you try to get something done but find the path to achievement blocked by an immovable boulder of ignorance.
The “cliche-spouting” seems to be more than a pattern – it's a practically infallible “tell”, a signal that raises the hackles of anyone experienced in the ways of the pointy-haired boss. If that describes you, then you'll find this article very funny. At least at first. After that, you may (like me) find yourself reminded of unhappy and frustrating past experience. For me, painful memories of a past boss (a CEO) came right to mind, in which I re-experienced things I'd rather not have re-experienced. You were warned :-)
Wow, there were even a couple I don't remember hearing. After reading, I will now need to take a shower and scrub the slime from me. Thanks for that.
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