You can say this for Senior Management: it knows how to articulate a goal. The strategy may be fuzzy, the… — Max Barry

He is looking for something called The Omega Management System, which is the latest management fad in a tradition stretching back through Six Sigma and Total Quality Management to the practice of bleeding sick patients and investing in tulips.

There’s no requirement that jobs be meaningful, Jones. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of PowerPoint slides, plus a guy reading out what was on the slides, and then he gave us all hard copies.