My supervisor wears tiny pants.

I mean, ridiculously tiny. I'm actually almost certain that they are youth pants. One pair even has a silkscreened image of Grumpy (the dwarf) on them.



Granted, they are sweatpants, and sweatpants only look good on, like, 3% of the population. But still. They are way too small to be worn on any other circumstance than laundry day, and even then I would qualify it as a questionable decision.

Also. He either a) has the lumpiest ass known to man, b) tucks his shirt into his tighty whities or c) wears diapers. It's like a car accident...you don't want to look, but your eyes are just drawn there. A tiny-sweatpant, lumpy-diaper-ass, mental car accident.

I call him supervisor bumble. He is really only good at getting in the way. And every three seconds he lets loose a heavy sigh like he has the weight of the world on his shoulders. He is overwhelmed by his own shadow, yet somehow managed to convince the company for which I work to hire him. To those of us who have had other supervisors, it is painfully obvious that he can barely manage himself, let alone a team of jewelers.

It really makes me wonder how corporate America manages to keep it's collective head above water. Because I know he is not the only bumbling supervisor out there....we all know him...the guy who gets hired despite his lack of skill/knowledge/ability to handle difficult situations...the guy who runs around like a chicken with no head while other, not-as-handsomely compensated, employees do his work for him...the guy who, with one breath, wants the department run HIS way, but with is next breath, is denying that he has any say about anything in said department...

It's really enough to make a competent, skilled worker want to run off and live in some jungle somewhere very far away from anything that could remotely be considered "corporate". Especially since I also know that it really doesn't have to be this way. Imagine what businesses could accomplish if they hired the BEST people for the job? These people could then focus on their own work, instead of the work of their incompetent coworkers (or supervisors)...

The possibility for success would be immeasurable.

I wonder if that's how Google does it.