date: Mon 16 Feb 2026 09:08:16 PM PST
subj: goals and objectives absurdities
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Every year people in the corporate world have to create goals
and objectives. Long ago, this was a management task. Managers
would assign objectives for their employees to fulfill. As the
years went on, they started adding to that annual activity
goals. The goals were often described as personal goals, and
they could be just about anything; however, managers really
wanted the goals to be something related to an employees job
function, even though it wasn't stated. Within a few years,
goals must be specifically beneficial to the company or
organization. Annual employee reviews rated each employee on
the objectives set by management and the goals set by employees.
Still as time progressed, objectives became contrived by
individual employees and then signed off by management. It
seemed as though management lost the ability to give objectives.
Executives in all-employee meetings started telling
non-management employees tell us how to innovate the company. At
that point management completely lost the ability to understand
what their employees do, so all goals and objectives were
created by employees for management to sign-off on, while
employees simultaneously must answer to management. 


This way of running a perpetual psyop on employees is so
ridiculous from the view of the workers. The activity of setting
objectives instead of receiving them in a hierarchical structure
is the most ridiculous activity to those below management. It
presents the reality that management is clueless, and useless.
Its a continuous guessing game to figure out what a manager
wants in order for the employee to continue to receive the
required achievable goals and objective to get a rating allowing
an employee to maintain employment. It truly is incompetence of
management and absurd for employees to participate in. If
management won't set objectives, then employees should set
simple goals and objectives that align to corporate slogans
without the possibility of failure.

Its my believe managers are mostly aspiring executives, so over
time have crafted their role to mirror executives, which means
they're aspiring to know as little as possible, work as little
as possible, and receive as much credit from their employees
work as possible, until they achieve executive level status.
Then they can finally tell someone what to do, because they know
what management is after finally escaping it.


This shit is stupid and it has to be stopped. Nobody wants to
talk about it, nobody wants to write about it. Nobody wants to
be the one who said anything to anyone so their job/career is
not jeopardized. 

Companies would do so much better for their workforce, the
environment, the world, and everyone else, if they would just
stop the bullshit hiring of MBA types, and promote from within
their direct organization.