***Dilberted with a twist of snafu and just a touch of fubar*****

I've just spent the last two days in meetings. Can I just say........"WHY, God, WHY?????" I come away from these meetings knowing full well that the chances of me implenting any of these "new, updated, revised" strategies is unlikely. Now, it is possible I may have gleened some minute philosophy that I intend on sharing with my employee's, that is if I remember what it was I gleened. What I do know for a fact is: I have a whole new pile of "Tools" and "Suggestions" that I will file in the appropriate garbage can when I get to work on Sunday. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy what I do, but I think I've been in management entirely too long, I've seen the re-engineering, the down-sizing and pretty much have gotten a grasp of every management paradigm that has fallen upon my desk. I've read all the management and marketing books I could tolerate for this life time. But what stays with me most promenietly, as I rethink my management skills, is that it's wrong to sleep with your employee's. Its wrong to sleep with them because you have no idea that when your unbalanced bi-sexual Assistant Manager will tell you that she thinks she's in love with her Big OL Hippie Dyke boss. Then all hell breaks loose.....wow.....good times. Ok, so sleeping with male subordinates is wrong, and I guess that letting your angry lesbo assistant fall for you is unwise as well. All these meetings do is remind me of inability to delegate appropriate tasks to 'right' employees and reward them rightly, also they remind me that, with teamwork, duct tape not only fixes broken fixtures but it works wonders on cases of insubordination. :oP~