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Comedian Al Murray recounts a run-in with industrial-scale stupidity: "Car insurance company rang, without having sent me a renewal letter, asking for money. Made them answer security questions." In the same vein, tell us your stories about pointless paperwork and corporate quarter-wits
( , Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:13)
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Not for a company I worked for but an ex-colleague swears that this is true.
The company he was working for was going through one of those reorganisations that corporations like to do on a regular basis to justify the existence of certain middle managers.
The manager in charge of this was both incompetent and lazy and passed the reorganisation work onto his underlings, including the powerpoint presentations but taking all the credit for his hard work even though he wasn't even reading the reports, just passing them off as his own and claiming overtime for all the extra work he was putting in.
Anyway, the minions decided to organise the company into Business Units, each with its own manager.
The piece de resistance was with the naming of the units themselves with Computer Unit: Northern Territories.
The manger went to the reorganisation meeting with a powerpoint presentation reading John Smith: BUM CUNT.
Bit of a bugger considering that John Smith was his manager. Of course he tried claiming that it was his team who'd done it, forgetting that he'd put in expenses claims for doing the work himself.
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called the Serious Homicide Investigation Team. They had a door plaque an' everything. The story goes that nobody noticed until the last minute.
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