Monday, January 26, 2009

Rumor denial regarding transfer requests

Paul always says that the number one rule of effective press manipulation is to get out in front of any negative rumors and completely deny them.

Well, one rumor flying around has been that I allegedly take low-level personnel transfer requests home on the weekends to review them. And when I say low-level we're talking like the police department version of a Fortune 500 company CEO involving himself in which building janitor #78 wants to be transferred to in order to perform his toilet cleaning tasks. Unfortunately, since this rumor absolutely, one hundred percent true, I am hereby denying that I ever do anything remotely like that. I may be an extreme micromanager but come on, what would that make me look like to the public if I admitted that I actually involve myself personally in such ridiculously petty day-to-day personnel decisions?

Really, folks. Seriously. Would the CEO of, say, Intel, concern himself with whether or not Jose at building #1 of the Mexico factory wants to transfer to a spot at building #2? Clearly such a CEO would have to be brain damaged to the point of being classified a vegetable to care about such mundane nonsense. So, all you pricks spreading this little tidbit about my managerial style around can go to hell. My wife already whines enough about how I bring stacks of these transfer requests home and stay up pacing back and forth in my study, ranting and raving delusionally into the early hours of the morning. So I don't want to hear complaints from anyone else.

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