fish story

Old German boss of mine said..."the fish always stinks from the head"...interesting a boss would say that but he meant the "real" bosses...if the architect designs a flawed building the masons can't fix it and will get blamed for the trouble...maybe the arch smooth talked his way into the job...maybe he wasn't qualified...maybe he was in over his head...maybe just a lousy architect...us foot soldiers get sent into war on a bad premise...blam...we get wacked...in corporate world lots of people are in the wrong position but by the time anybody figures it out chaos has already happened...peter principle..when people get promoted to the level of their incompetence...because i might start out as clerk and be really good at dealing with people and friendly and helpful and the boss leaves i get promoted in his position...just because i get the title as manager doesnt make me a qualified manager..only the title...dealing with all sorts of different issues and different people each with their own issues...instead of what was my comfort zone im thrust into dealing with way more issues than i can handle....my number one while qualified to do my job would probably lose her mind if everyday she was asked the questions i was and had to deal with the people i do...i had a baker who worked under me who was in charge when i had a day off...every time i came back after two days off he had a list of people he wanted me to fire...i said if i left this up to you we would be alone...patience is not an easy thing to have and really takes a while to develop....but back to my fish story....sometimes it is worthwhile to let the bad fish go.....sometimes not every fish fits in with the rest of the tank...whole tank of fish with some swimming slowly...some pretty but not doing much...some do all of the tank cleaning...some love to swim through those old buildings on the bottom of the tank...then BAM...owner of the tank puts in one of those fish that begins to eat the weaker fish and disrupt the happier fish...sometimes for the total harmony of the tank the wrong fish must find another tank......