There are professional companies.
And then there are the pseudo-professional ones.
The pseudos do all possible things to create the facade of professionalism.
However, peel the first layer off and you get to see the dirty reality immediately.
And then there are the pseudo-professional ones.
The pseudos do all possible things to create the facade of professionalism.
However, peel the first layer off and you get to see the dirty reality immediately.
The top dog in such companies has a fetish for external recognition.
And that is really sick.
Even if you are the biggest rat in a small rat-hole, you are still a rat.
This is exactly the case with the Lala-type man who is the top dog or the top rat in a small shop-type pseudo-professional Lala company!
This man is invited to an important meeting where he is also the chair.
On the day of the meeting, an hour or two before the scheduled start time, this man calls you and tells you that he some other supposedly important engagement.
And that is really sick.
Even if you are the biggest rat in a small rat-hole, you are still a rat.
This is exactly the case with the Lala-type man who is the top dog or the top rat in a small shop-type pseudo-professional Lala company!
On the day of the meeting, an hour or two before the scheduled start time, this man calls you and tells you that he some other supposedly important engagement.
Which also means this particular meeting is not
important!
And asks you to go ahead without him.
He says this meeting will mostly be about the routine stuff.
So its okay to go ahead.
It is actually not okay and only a Lala-type man can make such a statement.
For any company, focusing on the routine stuff is absolutely important to ensure the operations go on smoothly.
So its okay to go ahead.
It is actually not okay and only a Lala-type man can make such a statement.
For any company, focusing on the routine stuff is absolutely important to ensure the operations go on smoothly.
Of course, focus needs to be on strategic stuff too.
However in small shops where the Lala is the boss of the house, there is nothing really that can be called as strategic stuff.
The Lala-type man creates a false impression about himself and the small shop he is taking care of more like a watch-man than the top leader.
When told that the so-called routine meeting is an important one and he should attend, this man reluctantly agrees and provides a date and time slot when the meeting can be re-scheduled to.
When the day of the re-scheduled meeting arrives he does something completely non-sense, something only a Lala-type man can do in a pseudo-professional company.
This man is, interestingly, the one who is the chair of the so-called routine meeting.
You are the organizer of the so-called routine meeting and you have asked someone in your team to send out the meeting request to those who should attend the meeting including the chair (that same Lala-type man).
This Lala-type man does something amusing.
He wants to re-schedule the meeting again by pushing it further by half-an-hour.
That's really crap.
The bigger crap is that he doesn't call and inform you directly.
He calls one of his stooges from the old boys club he has created in the company.
This stooge becomes a messenger of the top dog.
The stooge tells you that the Lala man wants to move the meeting ahead by half an hour.
You are supposed to comply.
This was told to you for your information only.
You are nothing, just a complete zilch.
Do you feel humiliated?
Not at all.
Why?
Just one reason.
You have seen the same kind of non-sense happen umpteen times already.
There is no surprise.
There is no shock.
After all, this same man has parachuted an incompetent nincompoop over your head with a funny, dysfunctional title.
So what else can you expect other than sheer non-sense?
That nincompoop has only only competency - he is a "yes sir" stooge.
This Lala-type man is used to such an abnormal style of functioning so you cannot and should not expect anything fair and transparent in such an organization.
The meeting gets shifted and eventually happens also.
What also happens at the same time is, that whatever little respect you had left for this man simply vanishes into nothingness.
You have no choice but to comply with the Lala's wishes, whims and fancies.
You do have a choice regarding how much respect you really have for the Lala in private.
In such companies it will be a zero-respect in private situation, but you would create the facade of just the opposite.
The reason is that you need to play smart with the respect factor for the Lala in public.
And then, the big question.
Lala culture in pseudo-professional companies is a bitter truth.
The faster you adjust to that truth, the better for you.
Don't carry any ego as you will be humiliated again and again.
Be ready for any and all kinds of non-sense.
There should not be any surprise.
There should be any shock.
If you do the above, you will be at peace with yourself.
Do, however, enjoy the experience as you pass through the amusing times you are surely going to have when you work with a pseudo-professional Lala company.
However in small shops where the Lala is the boss of the house, there is nothing really that can be called as strategic stuff.
The Lala-type man creates a false impression about himself and the small shop he is taking care of more like a watch-man than the top leader.
When told that the so-called routine meeting is an important one and he should attend, this man reluctantly agrees and provides a date and time slot when the meeting can be re-scheduled to.
When the day of the re-scheduled meeting arrives he does something completely non-sense, something only a Lala-type man can do in a pseudo-professional company.
This man is, interestingly, the one who is the chair of the so-called routine meeting.
You are the organizer of the so-called routine meeting and you have asked someone in your team to send out the meeting request to those who should attend the meeting including the chair (that same Lala-type man).
This Lala-type man does something amusing.
He wants to re-schedule the meeting again by pushing it further by half-an-hour.
That's really crap.
The bigger crap is that he doesn't call and inform you directly.
He calls one of his stooges from the old boys club he has created in the company.
This stooge becomes a messenger of the top dog.
The stooge tells you that the Lala man wants to move the meeting ahead by half an hour.
You are supposed to comply.
This was told to you for your information only.
You are nothing, just a complete zilch.
Do you feel humiliated?
Not at all.
Why?
Just one reason.
You have seen the same kind of non-sense happen umpteen times already.
There is no surprise.
There is no shock.
After all, this same man has parachuted an incompetent nincompoop over your head with a funny, dysfunctional title.
So what else can you expect other than sheer non-sense?
That nincompoop has only only competency - he is a "yes sir" stooge.
This Lala-type man is used to such an abnormal style of functioning so you cannot and should not expect anything fair and transparent in such an organization.
The meeting gets shifted and eventually happens also.
What also happens at the same time is, that whatever little respect you had left for this man simply vanishes into nothingness.
You have no choice but to comply with the Lala's wishes, whims and fancies.
You do have a choice regarding how much respect you really have for the Lala in private.
In such companies it will be a zero-respect in private situation, but you would create the facade of just the opposite.
The reason is that you need to play smart with the respect factor for the Lala in public.
And then, the big question.
Lala culture in pseudo-professional companies is a bitter truth.
The faster you adjust to that truth, the better for you.
Don't carry any ego as you will be humiliated again and again.
Be ready for any and all kinds of non-sense.
There should not be any surprise.
There should be any shock.
If you do the above, you will be at peace with yourself.
Do, however, enjoy the experience as you pass through the amusing times you are surely going to have when you work with a pseudo-professional Lala company.
