Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Black holes in the World Wide Web


Oh yeah, Miserable Middle Manager is now turning into an erudite physicist!

You will probably wonder how come such a miracle happened: how could  Miserable Middle Manager  turn into a respected person in the most respected field of science research?

How did the transition happen? How did she (yep, Miserable Middle Managers wear hills!) do it? How did her responsibilities shifted from making people arriving on time (10.30 am for those lucky enough to be able to enjoy flexitime), avoiding team members insulting each other, chasing them to make them do their timeshits (yes, with an "i", Miserable Middle Manager is a foreigner but knows all about English spelling and grammar as she went to a private expensive school), working from their desk and not from Starbucks, delivering their work on time and with a minimum level of quality?

How did her skills evolved from the art of making subordinates obeying her orders to being shortlisted for a Nobel prize?

Simple: she discovered black holes in the World Wide Web. Yes, dear readers, black holes are not only found in the universe, they are closer to us than what we think and have proved to be a risk for runaway Miserable Middle Managers who cannot deal with her teams anymore. The proof? Miserable Middle Manager did some analysis this morning to evaluate her situation and this is what she found after counting, one by one, her cv submissions for the past 6 weeks:
  • 60 submissions
  • 3 rejections
  • 3 interview invitations
Thanks to her high mark in Quantitative Methods, Miserable Middle Manager learned to execute complex calculations: 90% of her submissions entered the Online Space but never gave a sign of life again. Does this behavior match with what Wikipedia defines as Black Hole?

[Wikipedia: A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape]

RIP, tailored CVs.

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