Distortions of Reality-- CP as manager

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Distortions of Reality Part 2
May 29 2007 at 10:06 AM melmax (Login melmax)
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CP Quote: “I have no doubt that I was a detail-oriented, hands-on manager who noticed every little thing. This is not a recipe for popularity, least of all in cryonics, where totally unqualified people seem to believe they should be able to do whatever they want.”

Charles, Charles, Charles, you never cease to amaze me. “Hands-on”??? If that’s not a distortion of reality, nothing is.

When I arrived at SA, Charles had isolated himself behind his computer, upstairs, while everyone else was working downstairs. Charles asked me to tell him, not only what everyone was doing downstairs, but what they were saying about him, personally. At the time, he expressed a general disappointment in everyone who was working there, except me, and that was only because I was the most recently acquired admiring Platt ally. I hadn’t been around long enough to question his equipment and/or protocols. Charles complained to me, relentlessly, about the other employees. (“Employee A spends all day surfing the Internet and text-messaging friends,” “Employee B has a problem with authority and goes on personal errands without clocking out,” “Employees C left the lab in a mess,” etc.). Some of his assessments I agreed with, some I did not. Regardless, my standard emphatic reply was, “You’re the manager, you should tell them what to do.”

In my opinion, the only area in which CP was truly “hands on,” in the five months I was at SA, was in the building of his own designs.

As for “totally unqualified people seem(ing) to believe they should be able to do whatever they want,” I believe CP is describing himself, yet again. And, before he screams, "character assassination," let me remind him that it's something he did to the employees he was managing, on an almost-daily basis.


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