So you're suffering from cost containment? No discretionary spending allowed unless it has a direct impact on this quarter's revenue? No travel unless it's a customer meeting? Absolutely no training or education? No social events? Boring?
And your VP has to approve everything!
Guess what. As a VP I can make anything into a customer meeting, fly where ever I want (even business class), go to any conference I'd like and treat anyone to dinner with all extras.
But I will not approve your expense report for those ten beers you and your team shared after successfully completing a project.
That's Corporate BS!
I don't get it. Why the approval hysteria? Tell people how much they can spend and leave it at that. If they spend more they should be in trouble. If they're under budget, let them have that beer.
And I won't have to get like 100 requests for approval per day.
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Twenty years of working in a corporate environment has brought me to a point where I have decided to give the insider's comments to the corporate BS we all have to endure. Believe me it's not for our good. I'd know since my day job is to create and implement corporate BS and make you and others believe in it. Let's start wiping that BS off.
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- ☼ I'm a VP holding an international senior management job with a well known global company. What's a VP? Well it's short for Vice President. But for the purposes of this blog any reference to VP should be interpreted as "viktigpetter". This Swedish term translates to "pompous ass". And yes, I'm Swedish so any nitpick comments about my English will get the VP treatment :-)
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