I just realized that I used to work with Palin!

[Greyskye]

While watching the Palin/McCain interview with Brian Williams just now, I realized that I used to work with Sarah Palin. In fact, I reported directly to her on a project once.

OK, maybe it wasn't actually Sarah Palin, and it was really a guy, but I swear to Barack (I kid, I kid!) that this dude and Palin share one of the most infuriating traits I have encountered in my 25 or so year career.

Let's call my Palin surrogate 'Mike'. My apologies to all of the Mike's of the world. I work in high-tech, in a design environment. Mike was hired in as a salaried individual in a combination technical/supervisory role. At the time, I was in a non-supervisory technical role, and worked 'under' Mike for about a year. It seemed much, much longer.

Mike liked to talk. He liked to talk a lot. Even when he really didn't have anything to contribute to the conversation. He'd just go charging enthusiastically along, repeating himself over and over again, driving home every single point about three different times. Usually getting sidetracked along the way, and ending up someplace really strange.

Tonight, watching McCain's face while Palin blathered on, I sympathized with him. I knew exactly how it feels to have a co-worker make an idiot out of themselves in front of outsiders, with you sitting there watching the train wreck unfold.

So I'll say it just this once, and never again. Never mind that you did it to yourself, just this once, I really feel sorry for you, Senator. I feel your pain.

ps. Mike was eventually demoted from his supervisory role. He was then dropped a grade level. Then he got fired.

[justgamma]

1. I've worked with Sarah, too

A few of them in fact. They are the ones who wink at the boss, let others do the work for them, and get the promotions. Most of them were dumber than a box of rocks.

[EnviroBat]

7. Every CIO in every organization I've ever worked is a "Sarah Palin".

Absolutely 0 technical knowledge, and constantly talking out of their ass so dumb people will see them as important.

[AlCzervik]

2. I did too but her name was Andrea and she got canned after screwing around with

another employee there, his name was Wayne and was also just like Palin.

[DeepBlueDem]

3. I dated a Sarah once

Shes Dumb as hell, Neo-con, Slut, Terrible Mother, God-awful accent, and Bad in Bed.

It lasted only 2 weeks. She pissed me off real bad on our dinner date, I told her that i'm using the bathroom. Instead, i asked one of my friends (who was the manager at the restaurant at the time) for a huge favor.

"Please let out thru the back door? my date is F***ed up, Shes a Bi**h." He laughed and understood. He escorted me thru the kitchen and opened up the back door for me and I hauled ass. I left her ass hanging, and had no regrets at all.

[izzybeans]

10. Me too. Small world, huh?

Though I dated her in high school when rebellion to her meant getting laid on the spare couch in the garage.

[boppers]

4. Aw, crap. I just realized I work with Palins too.

Eets their leeedeship, donchaknow? You betcha! <wink>

[Greyskye]

5. Anyone from the day crowd ever work with Palin?

:shrug:

[frickaline]

6. Yep me too. The standard "seagull manager"

Someone that swoops in, craps all over everything, and swoops out.

(for those who don't know)

[Dr. Death]

8. My first thought was, "You worked in a brothel?"

[Javaman]

9. As a facilities manager...

my job is to make sure all sorts of bizarro and strange requests get filled.

I work with a whole group of palins, it's painful.

however, I don't have to report to them just assist them and observe them in their natural settings.

I see people failing up, all the time.

[kwassa]

11. yeah, it was a guy, and he failed upward and left shambles behind him

He came in as the new manager of the office (think Steve Carrell but deadly serious). He was in a hurry up the corporate ladder, imposing new bone-headed policies that made our difficult jobs worse, not better, and managed to exit up that ladder before the disastrous results hit us.

Somewhere between "Dilbert" and "The Office", only venal and vicious.