date: Wed 01 Jul 2026 23:34:02 PM PDT - 3.6 M
subj: scared to speak up corp landia
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I've heard somethings, are they true? 
Just a fun story. I'll let you decide. 


In corporate landia also known as ClownWorld, exists a
hierarchical structure. Said structure causes what looks to
senior workers near the bottom of the hierarchy to have a belief
those at the top most often have some of the darkest, fowlest,
idiotic, despotic ooze flowing from their mouth, out over their
leaderSHIP team numskull's, causing their brain to rot and melt
dripping down their backs, into the crack of their ass, slurped
right into the mouth of upper and middle management, where upon
those people who once might have been workers become infected
with rotten skull slurpings, and start spewing propaganda into
the work machine. At no point does any of them push back because
the sweet ass nectar inebriates them into a drone like state. 

It all starts with a simple leadership change. Three weeks later
the first megalithic act the new leader does, is change the name
of organization for which they are assigned. Then they have a
huge meeting with their numskulls surrounding them, and begin to
speak to how their new organization's name reflects some sort of
esoteric phenomena that imbued values for adoption by all..
mean while the workforce below them wonders at what palace served
the sacrifice of lead infused blood that has taken these lunatics
into another realm where they haven't completely crossed back
over into reality. Is it the metaverse? Are they attempting to
terraform and expand their radius of habitability to vaporize all
semblance of meaning and understanding in the workforce?  

I've never heard or seen leaders and specially IT leaders actual
make things better for the workers, the processes, or even the
business. At the bottom of the structure its like watching the
worst worker in the organization who costs the company the most
money, destroying all that was working, destroying millions of
dollars, and then getting paid 2x the millions they cost the
company, by taking every working system built by the smartest
people, putting all of the well defined and redefined processes
built over many years,  into a huge toilet, then flushing it.  

In the toilet senior workers weighing the most due to having
obtained the most understanding quickly sink and flow out the
sewage system immediately. Those left possessing an
approximation of knowledge are weighed down by cling on
consultants leaching KT (knowledge termination). The cycle is
repeated a few more times until a majority of company knowledge
is mixed and washed away, this is called brain-drain. The new
leader peering into the huge toilet gestures wildly, attempts an
incantation uttering spell verbage "At Scale! Step Functional
Strength on Strength To Pace Pivot Alignment Leverage Agile
Agile Impact Win AGILE Incentivize Logistics Big Data
Deliverables! Monitize!  Profitize! AGILE AGILE MVP! grant me
thee! AI!!!!!!" LeaderSHIP smiling and nodding, claps their
hands like grade school children in auditorium school assembly.
The leader looks into the swirling pool of chaos. Eyes bulging
as a dark smoky sledge oozes from fanged jaws, the sledge drips
into the pool of chaos.  Thousands of helpless workers go blind
instantly, confounded cries of horror ring out.  LeaderSHIP bow
and prostrate heaving the gorge of wine, raw meat, toes and
fingers of catering staff, and Tiramisu bits onto the marble
floor.  Middle management cry out with lust at the spewage.
Wielding pseudo Montblanc pens for the broil, management
instinctively grapple and stab at nearby co-workers in hopes at
gaining advance to slurp the spoiling froth bubbling on the
marble floor. Screams and a noxious yellow fog ascends from the
toilet flowing over and filling the executive conference hall.
The leader stands speaks "next slide!  Next! No Back! Stop! Next
Next Next!" The confusion descends across the hall through the
intercoms, into the cameras over the webernets through the
monitor screens and speakers on workers desks, and blazes into
their eyes and ears.  The workers hearts begin to break, their
heads begin to fall.  Their rage begins to brew, as their morale
plummets. Workers thoughts .."Stupidity has won yet again. Its
just like the last time!" Signs of the prophesy were witnessed,
Rumors of expected ILOs are on the horizon. Leaked
organizational finance documents hit the internets showing
organization net loss of billions in the first quarter,
resulting in raises for leadership. The ritual has been
performed.  :( 

Workers wonder where the fuck does this insanity reign from. It
happens again and again, every three to five years. Then the
flow down starts, usually with a corporate survey used to
measure the state of morale engineered to pulse current work
force psychology to determine how far workers can be pushed.
With their morale low, anxiety high, worker tasks red-lined, and
fear driven competitiveness maxed, Leaders suggest changes with
claims workforce specifically asked for shittier conditions,
more oversight, more work, less advancement, and less
opportunity, all colored with loving corporate double speak.
Usually this is aimed at the majority which are those having
worked for the company five years or less. Their ignorance and
lack of historical memory of the ritualistic bullshit allows
leaders to play the same game over and over again. New workforce
performance metrics via goals and objectives, not set by
management, but instead set by the workers themselves.
Management has no clue as to what anyone's goals and objectives
should be, nor how to run the company. Management's primary
concern is licking ass up the hierarchy, and advancing their own
career.  They don't usually care enough to advance the company
or their workers, and this is shown by the fact they don't
assign direct achievable goals. The same type of shit goals and
objectives abandoned for better corporate culture performance
six years before, with claims for anyone not mutilated by the
ritual still having a job, was asked for in the corporate
survey. Totally unbelievable!

In all-team meetings leaders do nothing akin to leading or
inspiring  anyone. They tell everyone, "Tell us what we should
be doing for the company." If you tell them how they are doing
or what they are doing is wrong, they behave like little
children with their big tantrums. Usually flame you, then add
anyone who isn't on "The Team" to the ILO list, or pigeon holes.

Once there was a honey badger hired specifically to slash and
burn, and during a meeting a teammate spoke up, with good sense;
this was a teammate who had over fifteen years of experience,
ten direct years of experience to the subject matter, and
although we were all encouraged to speak our mind and
participate the moment it happened, on the global meeting the
leader/badger berated the teammate.  That leader did exactly as
hired, which was to cut millions of cost by issuing VLOs and
ILOs. The impact of the flame heard by the local team, was
significant, and caused several individuals to take VLOs. The
remaining members either refused to take mandatory voluntary
anonymous corporate surveys, or give dishonest answers. The
constant asked if the survey had been taken, or direct request
to take the voluntary survey by directors and managers, so they
can obtain some corporate kudo, caused those who would take the
surveys to refuse to answer honestly, creating bullshit results.
Usually the outcomes of the survey are nothing but nonsense
where management attempt to assign themselves goals in front of
workers, and then never mention those goals again, then a year
later they show up on the next survey and the process starts
again. The predecessor to the honey badger let go ten-thousand
employees. 

Back to the flamed teammate, three to four years later it became
clear the leader was wrong, the result was disastrous, and the
sane managers who were asked why the turn of direction were
honest enough to say the former direction sucked.  That
manager/director only worked for the company one year more after
the admission of failed initiatives to the workers. 

Training is kinda like surveys except not voluntary as well.
Training is required and the deadline to complete training will
be months from the assigned date, but managers swing round in
person, or via emails to hound employees to complete the survey
the week it was issued, so they can tell some ass fuck up the
chain how awesome they are. In reality it falsely portrays
workers having enough free time to immediate complete the
training. These managers would get into competitions against
other units for who's "team" completed the training, and or
surveys first. If you happened to tell management you are
working on actual work, oh hell no, performance ratings drop. 

As of late the new thing with performance is although goals and
objectives were set and signed off, upon delivery of KPI (Key
Performance Indicators), management wants to know in what way
are you (the worker) going beyond your current objectives. What
the fuck are you talking about management!? There is no more
time, or objectives, this is what you signed off on and you'll
be luckily to get that you fucking slurpy slurper. What is wrong
with these people? 

Once a director conveyed leadership's desire of our niche market
company compared a small commodities tech device producer with
significant returns, asking the entire team to come up with a
way to achieve returns like the small commodities company. I
remember wondering if the leader has any clue at the inability
of that prospect knowing the current and future market
saturation, as well as R&D costs, and manufacturing time. But
still our performance rating was based on our ability to create
profits for the company even though our team was a cost (IT
services) component of the company. The director's lack of
awareness was astonishing, and if any word to the contrary of
insanity would label the person anti lunacy. If you are against
the asylum, you are "Not on the team!"


Afraid to speak out is real. Surrounded by a group of people,
those who've advanced in their careers to management, director,
executive, etc, none of which are speaking against utter
nonsense creates psychological pressure against those who see
things differently. So much so that even asking for
understanding produces fear, because often past queries have
been made, and responses with buzzwords, abstraction, lets take
that question "offline", and just plain non-responses as if the
question asked was from another planet. Such response to
questions produces a learned behavior that equates to keep mouth
shut at all times. Under the good sense of food and living
expenses are high, and eating is a priority, so I rather eat vs
right the ship I'm on. Leaders know this, thrive on it, and use
it to their advantage. They take huge sums of cash, leave a
pittance for the real workers, live in castles, fly first class
round the world, and have peons travel hours to obtain their
Mountain Dew's and PBJ sandwiches with crusts cut off. All the
while few of the leaders could actually sit down and show any of
their workers how to actually do the workers jobs. When did that
requirement vanish from the working world, where managers and
leaders know how to do what their workers do, because they were
once a worker in the company? A majority of the leaders come
from some selection pool out of ClownWorld and if a person
shakes a stick in their direction flames bolt from leaderSHIP's
eyes vaporizing the worker instantly. 

The display of power is an act specifically and purposely there
to mentally manipulate the workforce. The actors themselves
start to believe they are magical beings from another dimension.
Even the workers gain those beliefs, and if a leader blesses a
worker, the proof is the worker's immediate ascension to the
exclusive club. Sometimes its just better to have lived a life
as a worker, with morals and soul intact, compared with rising
to the top.

In reality a person displaying power without ability has no real
power. If they want a worker to build, but they can't build it
themselves, there is no real power. Imagine its winter and a
person without the ability to build a shelter orders others to
build it under duress. The person ordering will not survive the
winter without the shelter, and although the workers will be
terminated if they don't obey the orders to work, all will die
without the shelter. The person with power actually had none,
and their fate is the same as those not willing to succumb to
fake posturing of power. Its better to work with others than
have them work for you. 

There is no rise without the stain of ooze. No rise without
mutation. In the end we all die, and those who stepped on backs
find themselves in the same place as those who's back was
stepped on. Better to have never stepped on another back. But
the lure, the carrot, life styles of the rich and famous has
been played and pervaded throughout most of the culture today.
Be a prince, and a princess, live the high life, let others wash
your feet, instead of being the salt of the earth.  

If you write about the happenings in corplandia, in any other
light but the policy specifies, the end of your job is likely to
occur sooner than later. 

If you've been in corplandia, this story might resonate with
you. If not, this is just a silly little tale of a place and
time only the dammed shale understand.