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Things you want to say to employees but can't because you're professional...

Robey

Partly as a bit of fun, but mostly as an opportunity to vent...

Employee: "So what's my motivation for getting up at 5am to be on site for 7am?"

What I wanted to say: "Keeping your f-ing job? The fact that we pay you a salary far in excess of what your meagre skillset, dubious intelligence and questionable competence deserves?"

What I actually said: "Your professional pride in the delivery of an excellent service that our clients appreciate."

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  • "When I tell you that "X" is not "Y", based on years of training, practice, review, assessment, and 'hands on' work with their complexities, please don't tell me they're categorically the same, based on the half-day's introductory course you took.

    I'm open to new thinking and ideas, but that doesn't necessarily make me wrong; or stupid."

  • in reply to Peter
    Haha, very true, Peter! For me that would be the same but "please don't tell me I need to change the whole org policy on this subject based purely on your personal opinion of what "you would like" as an employee/candidate etc". E.g. trying to get a manager to give proper feedback to someone after interviews and them refusing to do it "because I would hate to get a call with a rejection. Personally I don't want to know".
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  • in reply to Peter
    Haha, very true, Peter! For me that would be the same but "please don't tell me I need to change the whole org policy on this subject based purely on your personal opinion of what "you would like" as an employee/candidate etc". E.g. trying to get a manager to give proper feedback to someone after interviews and them refusing to do it "because I would hate to get a call with a rejection. Personally I don't want to know".
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