Is working all about team work in problem solving? Getting the job done properly the first time round ensuring customer satisfaction?

Or is it all about team work in poking other’s asses while covering your own?

My former boss (the one who was transferred out of my department) seems to have the ass poking constipated point of view towards working life.

“If you you do not keep me in the loop, how am I supposed to cover you?” was his famous buzz word. Man, I always feel bad for him thinking how stupid he must feel when he reads his mail and realised that he WAS in the loop. It’s not that it is easy to locate him anyway, unless of course, I know where he’s skiving.

“We need more ammo to whack this guy in the other department.” Another famous line.

How are you going to find time to work if all of it is spent on trying to keep a perpetually absent person in the loop, especially when he is more interested in setting his sights on another ass?

Good news is, I do not need to swallow all these antics any longer… or need I?

Now that he is no longer in the same department, I become the guy in the other department. This means, my ass is now in his sight.

All the covert ass piercing emails he used to send to the bosses’ of my inter departmental colleagues are now currently being sent to my boss.

I am beginning to wonder which is worse? Being his personal ass, or the ass he tries to target by remote control.

I guess its between the devil and the deep blue sea.