Out Of His Element

This particular post has nothing to do with the Cubs, which may make it more readable. For those of us who work for corporations, there is that idiotic coporate mentality forced on us by the scumbags that generally make up Senior Corporate Management that want us to step out of our element and "challenge" ourselves to do things we would never think to do otherwise. When I worked at Sears in the late '80's, senior management had a hard on for something called Act II, which part of the "training" was having managers go to a corporate retreat and do completely retarded stuff like have everyone tell some secret about themselves,rappel down a wall, or ,and this is the best one, climb up a pole, stand on a round disc at the top, and jump off into a net. Fortunately, the rank and file managment had more sense than senior management did, and most of us never had to to that shit. It's just so typical of the bloodthirsty, psychotic assholes that run companies to cut benefits, freeze or limit raises, and then encourage their "valued associates" to "expand their horizons" and do "exercises" to "prepare them for change", which is just another way of "cutting our throats". Anyway, if your company's management wants you to do something "outside your normal routine", keep this in mind. The Crocodile Hunter was killed doing something outside of his area of expertise, which is crocodiles.