My Rants

Anyone who has worked long enough, or have done some management/business courses will know what a 'carrot and stick' approach to management is. As you most probably know, carrots and sticks help managers get people moving in the right direction in terms of achieving company goals. If you do well, you get a carrot (or tens of thousands of them depending on how lucky you are) or if you are an abject failure or performer, I suppose you perhaps do deserve a stick. However I have recently discovered a variation of this approach being utilised at work. This new approach, which I shall now affectionately call the 'carrot AS a stick' approach sees an organisation, in the guise of appraising its staff to reward and recognise them, actually use the performance appraisal to allocate rewards that instead of feeling like you've been fed a nice big carrot, you feel like you've been hit by a rock solid ten foot piece of carrot right in your gobsmackers between your legs (for the men that is).

To add insult to injury, they then try to justify it and clandestinely proceed to shove it up your.. *beep*.... I suppose if you're into that sort of thing, I am guessing having a carrot up your arse may not be too bad.. but I'm not keen on that sorta thing, so that carrot is giving me a mighty sore *beep*.. Maybe I'll submit my case study (plus picture of the aforementioned carrot up my butt) into the Journal of Carrot and Stick Management and maybe, JUST maybe, I could be referenced as the guy who coined the term CARROT AS A STICK approach to management.

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