Comrade Carl Marks is global
In the spirit of collegiality, I dropped
into a "All Hands On" meeting of R&D, lead by Comrade Carl Marks. Cynthia Axe was trailing along with me; Ms Axe leads our semi popular Early Bird Retirement Plan.
Comrade Carl was giving a ppt presentation named "No Migrating from Control to Empowerment in my shift". However, the ppt was in Russian, Urdu, Chinese and Hebrew.
I cannot recognize Hebrew script, but
Cynthia's life partner of 8 years ago was half Jewish, so she was astute
enough to point that out to me. I have a mastery of French, and I am learning Danish to understand some LinkedIn posts. Comrade Carl spoke in Russian; he asked one of
the staff to translate into Chinese.
The Israelis don't listen, so Carl focused on the Russian and Chinese language only, in violation of our language police-Y.
The Israelis don't listen, so Carl focused on the Russian and Chinese language only, in violation of our language police-Y.
I asked CEO Stan from "whence" Carl's language
skills, and Stan replied "Carl is a global manager".
At the end of Carl's tedious, rambling and unfocused presentation, I asked Carl, "what about the English language, Comrade
Carl".
Carl snarled "My dear Comrade Ramsbottom; NO ONE speaks English
except HR and Sales."
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