I pummel your ass because you're constantly, repetitively stressing me out? Because, y'know, seriously, if you come by my desk and you say "dude, can you do this for me?" And, on the outside chance that I say, "Sure, I can do that, after I get my workload finished up", you then wander by my desk at least once every fifteen minutes to a half an hour, asking me if I've got your damned report/paper/memo/low-level-flunkie-makework done, and have the nerve to look surprised when I glare up at you from behind my desk and tell you that "I'll let you know when it's finished and go away before I hurt you."
Those of you who've had office jobs know, of course, that I'm talking about middle-managers when I say "you" in this case. Middle-managers, people with MBAs who make more money than I do, and generally couldn't find their ass with both hands and a map, even if you'd just pointed it out to them three minutes before. They don't actually have a job to do, they just make shit up for you to do, in addition to the actual work you have to get done. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to start giving management degrees? What the hell is that? "Hey, what can you do for my company?" "Well, I went to school for four or more years to learn how to manage." "So, what can you do?" "Uh... manage" "And you mean, what by that?" "Properly allocating company resources according to mathematical and social theory?"
True, they learn how to THEORETICALLY allocate resources. At this point, if I'm running the company, and say it's a metalworking company, if the dude in front of me doesn't know anything about metalworking, he can go now, I'm not talking to him any more. But the little bastards have gotten into everything! They're like the fleas of the business world, difficult to kill and almost impossible to get rid of once they've infested your house.
And to those who actually realize, you can't just have a business degree, you've gotta know something about the business you're managing, good on you, you're ahead of the curve. For you idiots out there who think that just knowing "Management Theory" is good enough... that's why you're doomed to middle management... and ultimately REPETITIVE STRESS INJURY.
*bows*
