My colleagues and I have been discussing about someone in Company X who climbed the corporate ladder too damn fast. Then I brought up something which I have been believing all these while – sucking up the bosses gives one an unfair advantage.
I think I’ve blogged about this before. You can read it here.
As a conclusion – a person’s prospect in a modern, decent sized corporation as it appears, does not solely depend on the person’s competency to work. It has to be more than that. Like, enhancing his/her relationship with his/her superior. The most popular method is to play golf. You play golf with your boss, he gets to know you better. You’d get all the time to be with him, alone. You get to be creative in front of him and show him what a brilliant person you are even if you’re not.
But then, today, I came upon a realization. What if a person’s short? Like, fucking short? How to play golf to suck up the boss? Now we all know golf is not a short people’s game. That’s because one has to be of a minimum height to be able to play golf because the length of a golf club is standardized and short people won’t be able to use it (well, unless the short guy saws off a portion of the club, but the club is gonna lose the kinetic required to hit a ball).
So, does that mean short people couldn’t suck it up to their bosses? And then it occurs to me that short people have their niches to fill. Just like why we have tapeworms. They’re shorter and blood travels to their brain faster – so theoretically, they’re more intelligent and reactive (thus, wilier). But for that advantage, they don’t get to do a lot of things like riding a really cool bike, playing basketball or golf.
So how do short people suck up to their bosses to climb the corporate ladder faster without playing golf? The answer’s simple. Read this old post of mine (I almost forgot about it… and how brilliant I have been…)