Can someone explain this to me? Why is it that people believe that they have to be politically correct? Other than the obvious reasons, like fear of losing one's job, being accused of slander (which by the way is a tough one to prove unless you have hard and fast evidence), impressing chicks (which again by the way doesn't really matter, because the only chicks that you'd be impressing wouldn't be the ones to take it up the ass on the first date anyway!), vying for political office or something just as superfluous in it's needlessness!
I realize that it's the catch-phrase of the decade, but that was the past decade; you remember, the sensitive nineties! Well damn it people, I for one am sick of it. It's like the adage of degrees, B.S. = Bull Shit, M.S. = more of the same and Ph.D. = Piled higher and deeper! Let's cut through the shit and get to the point. Call a spade a spade. Tell people like it really is, don't beat around the bush, unless you're hunting that does you no good anyway. I'm tired and fed up with people not speaking their mind and telling you exactly what it is that they're thinking!
Now I'm not condoning being mean to people and insulting them, even though I firmly believe that there's a time and place for that, but what I am saying is, if you believe one thing but say another, you're lying to the person you're talking to and you're lying to yourself! Maybe if you do it enough you'll actually believe it! I don't know!!!
The other day my boss sent out an e-mail to our department indicating that the corporation had set up meeting times to discuss the rollout of a new software package! (The facts are irrelevant, the software in question is irrelevant, this issue is with being PC). Well, I thought at the time that this meeting was really just a forum for the corporation to boast about their commitment to improvement; in essence, a waste of my time! Therefore, I responded to my sycophantic boss and queried the necessity of being present for a presentation that had and will have no direct impact on my job function. His response, in all it's politically correct pedantic glory, was a canned retort that could have been formatted for any query that called to task the whims of the powers that be; the corporation!
Now he (my boss) is in no fear of losing his job, or is he in need of justifying his existence, and that stems directly from the fact that my boss was hired by the General Manager and if my boss were to lose his job, the General Manager's choice of him in the first place would be called into question, and therefore, the GM goes to bat for my boss Like George did for Lenny! (The intellectual similarities between my Boss and GM to those two Steinbeck character's is remarkable!)
Being in the wonderful frame of mind I was in when I received this template retort was tempestuous at best, hence, the requisite sarcastic counterblast!
I indicated that I understood and appreciated the fact that the company had committed themselves to this huge undertaking and that they felt it important to share their accomplishments with the masses. But as it has no impact, nor has it been explained to me how I'm to benefit from this experience, I'm still unconvinced of it's necessity!
I have a mail tracer on my e-mail so I knew immediately when my boss read my response. Within five minutes of my boss having opened the e-mail, I received the call! My boss proceeded by indicating that my e-mail had been received and would like to talk to me further about the issue in question.
I went down to the bosses office and closed the door, sat down and was immediately reaffirmed that my boss too felt that this meeting really would have no impact on me or my job function. I had to hold my breath and count to ten just to calm myself down, (self-preservation has nothing to do with being PC), even though I really felt like saying, "Then why the hell didn't you say that in the first place?" Instead, my boss got the raised eyebrows inquisitive, Really? look! The response to this gestured question only reaffirmed my suspicions that his head was firmly lodged in the grasp of the sphincter of the powers that be. "If you agreed, why didn't you just say so and then tell me I had to go because you told me too?" Instead, my boss chose to beat around that bush, placate me with ambiguous, insipid platitudes. I've worked with this monkey for over a year and a half now, you'd have figured he'd realize that I don't appreciate this licentious use of my time! The solace I take from this entire unpleasant experience is the fact that this rant was done entirely on company time!
Most likely, this rant stems from my animosity toward the, to cash in on the Tom
Cruise phrase from the movie "A Few Good Men", Galactically Stupid as opposed to
my boss being PC. But nonetheless, had he come over and said, "I understand that
you've got a lot to do, but this info session even though it doesn't directly
affect or impact your job function, will nonetheless at least give you a better
understanding what it is your co-workers are going to have to deal with, with
respect to the rollout!" Now that's a response that I could handle. It answers
the question of, why should I waste my time, it indicates that he knows it's a
waste of my time, but it provides an explanation that is difficult to argue
against and best yet, it ain't PC!
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