Corporate Culture in Verse
Created | Updated Jul 15, 2005
When
When you can lose your head as all about you
Are keeping theirs and not asking you what to do
When you can love yourself, while others hate you
And yet make a list of their names for later too
When you can talk for hours and not be tired by talking
Or listened to, don’t listen in return
And look supercilious and smug when walking
And go on management courses, but never, ever, learn.
When greed, ego and power are your masters
When you make not a single thought your aim
When you can meet your triumphs and other’s disasters
And treat those two successes just the same
When you can take the solutions others have spoken
And present them at meetings and take the acclaim
And when pressed give credit to others, but only token
But make sure in failure, others take the blame
When you can go to a high powered meeting
And say all the right things to your boss
And watch in silence as a friend takes a verbal beating
And don’t defend them, or don’t even give a toss
When you can order everyone around you
To follow your ideas even when your wrong
And in failure, claim calmly to your boss on cue;
"I told them it wouldn’t work all along!"
When your next promotion takes up all your thinking
When quests for truth and rigour aren’t worth the hunt
When you can walk up to a colleague without blinking
And smiling, stab them in the front.
When you can fill a ten hour working day
With thirty minutes worth of work actually done
You’ll be given a big increase in your pay
And -which is more- you’ll have a department to run!
