My semi-recent post on compulsive liars wasn’t my best writing, went off the rails, and was kind of a rambling mess.
This one probably won’t be much better, but meh. Maybe we’ll manage to stay a little more on topic here at least, we’ll see.
Anyway as you may have guessed the previous post was inspired by some co-workers. This one is also work inspired. I’ll actually get to the point now..
Why do so many people in highly profitable corporate positions actively WANT people to lie to them?
Seriously – they would rather be told “No Problem, we’ll have that ready by tomorrow at the latest” every day – while wasting half of every work day making people come up with excuses for delays and more lies about how “it’ll be ready tomorrow though!” – for a full year than just be told up front that “Actually that is pretty complicated, it will probably take 6 months” and have it delivered on time..
And this is despite the fact that paying customers are being updated with these false estimates, and getting progressively more pissed off every time they are lied to.
I mean I kind of get it – what these people *really* want is to just demand the impossible, force their subordinates to lie to them, then somehow through sheer force of entitlement have reality itself shift to align with the lies and make them true… But that isn’t how reality works.
Businesses run on lies like this *always* take longer to get things accomplished than if they just kept people honest and gave them the time actually required for things. And a good manager should have a good idea of the actual time needed without asking in the first place, especially after they’ve been doing the same thing over and over for a few years.
Again, no real point – just frustrated ranting. But hey, what else is a blog for?