I had three older sisters who acted like Rita, if it went great they were responsible, if not it was my fault. Still have scars on my back, from the old cloth covered coffee pot cords, for things I had nothing to do with.
I’m 79, and don’t get many of the references here, but spending nearly 40 years working for corporations it’s obvious to me that management hasn’t changed much at all. I swear these management schools are turning out sociopaths by the hundreds. The ironic part is that a lot of what many corporations are doing is counterproductive to their own success. I note one guy recently on TV whining about fewer males in the workplace, and all the C.E.O.’s can think of is how to reduce the labor force by offshoring, automation, and any other thing they can get by with. Keep up the good work, John and Scott!
Yeah, in my family if anyone else broke something it was an unfortunate random accident. If I broke something, it was premeditated vandalism. In one case, I was over 100 miles away when my mom got a flat tire. Of course, it was my fault because I drove her car one time a couple of months prior to that.
When I was a little kid, there was an incident at a family get-together (mostly relatives of my grandparents’ generation) where someone spilled a cup of coffee, and my grandfather got blamed for it. The funny thing is that we have home movies of the incident and it shows that my grandfather had nothing to do with it, and wasn’t anywhere nearby (he was standing at least 6 feet away at the time). On top of that, the next frames of the home movies show him mopping it up.
allen@home over 1 year ago
Rita says she doesn’t think of you as a scapegoat. Think again Sal.
Bocephus over 1 year ago
First time she’s let go of her water bottle.
Grandma Lea over 1 year ago
I had three older sisters who acted like Rita, if it went great they were responsible, if not it was my fault. Still have scars on my back, from the old cloth covered coffee pot cords, for things I had nothing to do with.
ahnk_2000 over 1 year ago
He is so accepting of not accepting. More like a scapelamb.
thight1944 over 1 year ago
I’m 79, and don’t get many of the references here, but spending nearly 40 years working for corporations it’s obvious to me that management hasn’t changed much at all. I swear these management schools are turning out sociopaths by the hundreds. The ironic part is that a lot of what many corporations are doing is counterproductive to their own success. I note one guy recently on TV whining about fewer males in the workplace, and all the C.E.O.’s can think of is how to reduce the labor force by offshoring, automation, and any other thing they can get by with. Keep up the good work, John and Scott!
DawnQuinn1 over 1 year ago
What happened to Rita’s new desk?
Catmom over 1 year ago
Yeah, in my family if anyone else broke something it was an unfortunate random accident. If I broke something, it was premeditated vandalism. In one case, I was over 100 miles away when my mom got a flat tire. Of course, it was my fault because I drove her car one time a couple of months prior to that.
Csaw Backnforth over 1 year ago
Do people who use others as scapegoats see their victims that way? Surely they just view them as the guilty party.
WF11 over 1 year ago
When I was a little kid, there was an incident at a family get-together (mostly relatives of my grandparents’ generation) where someone spilled a cup of coffee, and my grandfather got blamed for it. The funny thing is that we have home movies of the incident and it shows that my grandfather had nothing to do with it, and wasn’t anywhere nearby (he was standing at least 6 feet away at the time). On top of that, the next frames of the home movies show him mopping it up.
TheBigPickle over 1 year ago
What happened to her super new-ish desk?