# Clueless Management **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 15, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-management/543307 "2010-06-15T16:30:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-management/543307/41 "2010-06-16T15:14:31Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > I just received a small outdoor blanket that folds into a bag at our company for our 100 year anniversary gift. It’s nice and all, but a blanket? really? It’s more of a sitting pad than a blanket, honestly. > [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > It’s the _company’s_ anniversary, not yours with the company. You’re lucky they got you any damned thing. Assumes facts not in evidence. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-management/543307/42 "2010-06-16T15:27:43Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Assumes facts not in evidence. You’re suggesting that \*\*EvilTOJ \*\*has been working for the same company for 100 years? Because that’s the only other way I can see to interpret that post. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-management/543307/43 "2010-06-16T15:30:05Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > You’re suggesting that \*\*EvilTOJ \*\*has been working for the same company for 100 years? Because that’s the only other way I can see to interpret that post. Psst, joke. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-management/543307/44 "2010-06-16T15:34:54Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Psst, joke. Oh, I must have failed to notice 'cause the funny was missing. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-management/543307/45 "2010-06-16T15:43:46Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > You’re suggesting that \*\*EvilTOJ \*\*has been working for the same company for 100 years? Because that’s the only other way I can see to interpret that post. In which case, a lousy blanket would sure be a lame gift, wouldn’t it? I try to keep an open mind about these things. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-management/543307/46 "2010-06-16T15:48:55Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > In which case, a lousy blanket would sure be a lame gift, wouldn’t it? I dunno–old people are always cold. And someone who lived through the Great Depression is probably grateful for any little thing they can get their gnarled, decrepit claws on. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-management/543307/47 "2010-06-16T15:59:13Z")
My husband gets any number of WTF? items as company rewards. Occasionally he gets something useful, in which case our daughter promptly appropriates it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-management/543307/48 "2010-06-16T16:12:32Z")
My husband’s company keeps him in clothes - well, shirts, jackets and hats anyway. Every project ending - hats and fleece vests! He got a really nice parka once, too - I think that was also for a project. They never give out pants, though - he’s on his own for pants. Speaking of clueless management, at bonus time last Christmas, Jim’s company made the announcement that Due To The Economy, bonuses would be tiny. A few months later, the company announced (I believe it was) record profits. Do they honestly think no one remembers three months ago? At this point in my working career I’d respect a company that just flat out told me, “You’re not getting bonuses because we don’t want to and we’ve got a good excuse this year” more than this kind of smoke-blowing bullshit that seems to be based on assuming that their workers are brain-damaged morons. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-management/543307.md?page=2)