Re: doom, doom, doom

Steve VanDevender <stevev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

It's the most disastrously absurd possibility I can imagine, so it has
a high likelihood of occurring in our environment. Even if my guess
is wrong, whatever does happen ought to be at least as absurd.

Apparently I have developed a substantial Strategic Pessimism Reserve to
get me through difficult times, as what really went down didn't quite
meet my expectations for absurdity.

We got told that a new director is being created to take over the
management of our Systems and Operations people who are currently
managed by our execrable harpy of a boss. This failed to meet my
expectations for disaster by allowing for a small chance of a positive
outcome.

Of course, the current situation still means months more under the
management (if I may call it that) of the EHB, who now knows we will be
taken away from her leaving plenty of opportunity for her to sabotage
the new manager by mistreating and eliminating more of us.

One of my colleagues managed to arrange a meeting with our CIO earlier
in the morning to discuss our current difficulties, learning the news of
the intended new hire ahead of the "all-hands" meeting, but also left
his meeting with the impression the CIO is not willing to otherwise
intervene to improve our lot before this new manager is hired, even
though he is himself noticeably unhappy with the EHB.

This intended new manager will also basically be stuck in a position of
having to arbitrate demands from three other directors for Systems time
to work on projects, which will likely be no fun for him or her and
possibly no better for us either.

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