Hey, I got promoted today! I am now among the noble ranks of lower-middle management. This is the very exciting news that I believe I alluded to a couple of weeks ago. Aaaahhh, beaurocracy… I don’t exactly know what my new responsibilities will be, but they probably involve getting into the office before 9:30 and not going on facebook during the workday. Aw, I’m all grown up now!
Sooo…. Last night, Jay and I went out to celebrate [Redacted for work-related reasons]…
Which brings me to why I am so outraged by the NBC Tonight Show debacle, and so happy that Conan O’Brien is not playing along with that mess.
Last week, I came across this: The Gervais Principle, a lengthy analysis of The Office and management theory, and it hit close to home. It’s ridiculously long, but the basic theory is (I think) that companies promote clueless losers to middle management so they can manipulate them and blame them for upper management’s shortcomings. Obviously, Conan O’Brien was not promoted to middle management, but it does seem like NBC thought they could manipulate and place blame on him.
Most intelligent people understand that there is no loyalty left in the workplace, but not many of them have the luxury/misfortune of having their sad career issues covered on TMZ. I think a lot of people can identify with Conan’s situation, even though we don’t have multi-million dollar contracts and 15 years of late-night talk show experience, because we all know what it feels like when one’s company is trying to screw one over. Now we can all live vicariously through him as he screws them right back.
Unrelated side note: Is that Apollo Ono Dayquil commercial the worst ever?