Comments on: Management By Perkele

By: Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:33:48 +0000

It isn’t as bad as it sounds, but if he was in a bad mood boy did he ever not keep it to himself. All the other people I have worked for have been calm and reasonable and helpful and good at managing other people and so on. You’d think that they would have to be, to be put in a position of managing other people. My dad ran his own business, what’s everyone else’s thoughts on how their perkele manager got there?

By: Shadhex

Shadhex — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:51:52 +0000

This sounds somewhat like the corn-cob anti-pattern, where the person in question is in management.

I’ve had a manager that once started screaming in our face in a meeting. I went to get the anti-pattern book and opened it up at different anti-patterns that he was practicing (not in front of the team, the point was not to insult him). He was strangely calm/nervous at hearing me telling him what he was doing wrong. Sometime bullies just need a good shove back. If you can do it in a tasteful matter, that’s great…otherwise, slash his tires :) Cartman’s technique works wonders too, I’m sure.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AntiPatternsCatalog
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CornCob

By: Juuso

Juuso — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:53:59 +0000

@tonic: yeh, that article looks bit bad – the content is quite… well, let’s say that I disagree with the way the information is presented there. I suppose the words “This article may need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia’s quality standards.” says it all.

But thanks for the link, it does has some points on that page.

@Htbaa: cartman technique :)

@Katherine: auch

@Robert: do’h. I’d suspect people then talked behind his back. Like… on public blogs. ;)

By: Robert Dowling

Robert Dowling — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:39:15 +0000

@ Katherine – :o

I haven’t had a boss like this. But I have had a boss that would talk about other employees behind their backs. Which only left me assuming that he talked about me beind my back.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:44:15 +0000

My dad.

By: tonic

tonic — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:15:41 +0000

Also Wikipedia has an explanation of the topic’s “management technique”, with the different nuances of the meaning and discussion of the outcome:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_by_perkele

By: Htbaa

Htbaa — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:03:17 +0000

At my place it seems I can hardly do anything wrong (I rarely do anyway :-p) but a colleague of mine used to get shouted at on a daily basis, now it’s once or twice a week. Even so, I’ve heard some stories from him that would make me say to the guy to drop dead. If a boss, manager, or whatever decides he needs to treat me like shit can be sure of me letting him drop into shit, with a smile :-).

If I were Tony I’d say, screw that guy, and in the mean time look for a better place to work. Some people think it’s their privilege as a boss to shout at people. Wrong address here :-).