Shaken to the Core: ‘Insightful’ Article on Workplace Rudeness!

Well blow me down. According to some article from some news service, when people are treated rudely in the workplace, it’s a bad, bad thing.

The headshrinker quoted in the piece claims that “75 percent of workers say they’re treated rudely at least once a year” and that it harms workplace productivity. Why, the poor dears may up and quit? The horror.

Seriously, if only that were the case. Why, simply be <i>ruuuuude</i> and your sensitive little incompetents will get out of your hair? I wish!

Speaking as a manager, I’ll tell you I respect someone who calls me on my rudeness than someone who simpers about it and complains behind my back.

The fact is that sometimes worker bees need a little kick in the ass, and if they can’t take it, they should find a new situation. Frankly, in the uncertain economic times, if someone saves me the expense of giving them a layoff package, so much the better.

Learned to Tie His Bootlace

According to noted economic sage Accountemps, Tuesday is our most productive day of the week.

” . . . (in a) survey of 150 top managers at major companies, 57 percent of respondents picked Tuesday as the day the staff works at peak performance .”

150 managers at amorphous top companies being enough of a representative sample for what now?

The investigative powers of the Washington Post managed to book an interview with noted expert on Tuesdays, an assistant manager at a DC Metro-area ‘Ruby Tuesday” restaurant to back up this claim.

Perhaps if the reporter had written this important news on a Tuesday, we could have had a quote from the manager. Or perhaps the fry cook. (Oh, mercy — just noticed this “article” was filed on Feb. 12 — indeed a Tuesday!)

Attention staffers: Next Tuesday is July 8. We’re expecting great things.