Ban Wigs From The Workplace...Please

We work with this lady. She wears a wig. All remote offices have to deal with her at some point each day. She is the epitome of everything that’s wrong within the company, with corporate America for that matter. She, as L eloquently put it, “is too busy to do anything, yet wants to touch everything.” At a moment’s notice she can produce, effortlessly, a venomous communiqué- email, memo, phone call- to tell the recipients in no uncertain terms that they are in fact worthless pieces of rat shit too stupid to live. Yet she can’t be bothered with customers’ concerns and or problems that are sitting at her desk waiting resolution because she is too busy and she is already working most weekends and can’t even ever have a real vacation because her phone rings every two minutes when she is not at the office.

I guess we should look at the bright side and give her points for consistency. Unless she happens to be in a particularly-rare good mood and feels like shooting the breeze and/or sharing how much her “staff sucks;” she is consistent at pissing people off, making them cry, and feel the uncontrollable need to quit. She hired most of her sucky staff. She continues to decrease their level of productivity by constantly berating them and stampeding through the general area while coming or going from her office. She screams often enough her staff pretends they can’t hear her. Her staff, or most of it, has taken their legitimate complaints to her boss, Napoleon, my boss. His answer? “Just ignore her. You need to grow thicker skin.”

All this in plain view and what do the other big whigs do? Let her interview and hire more people of course. Avoid confronting her about her abusive and unacceptable behavior in the office. Avoid disentangling the snare of messes and problems she has created directly and indirectly through her absurd behavior. Did you say we were going public? Great! We’re ready for the big leagues- bring it on!