Goat or Donkey?
You Can't Make This Stuff Up.
This really happened
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When I started at the company, I was told Tom was the standard all of us were to aspire to become. He had the top metrics in the company for trains leaving on time and least percentage of passenger bags lost.
He visited my building and helped quiet a bit by showing me how to cheat/lie/flim flam/deceive and massage our metrics, and we did and we improved, but we couldn't catch the GOAT.
It wasn't exactly fair to compare us because Tom's business was quiet different. When the trains pulled into his station, he had baggage cars already separated by final destination, so he only had to connect the Kansas City baggage car to the train going to Kansas City and like cars to their final destination. We didn't have baggage cars so we had to separate bags individually and ensure they were on the correct connection for the passengers.
The GOAT was getting the highest raises, more stock, and more of his managers were getting promoted.
Fast forward 18 months and Tom began getting 50% of the trains with individual bags to transload and within one month, his metrics were among the worst in the company. Six months later, over half his managers were fired, transferred, or quit as he passed accountability down the food change. Six months later, Tom quit with bottom of the barrel metrics. No doubt he has a stellar resume and is in someone's C-Suite.
Tom was terrible at operations, a horrible leader, yet he thrived in corporate America.
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
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3moWell done Colin. Congratulations.