WOW -- Cheer up; we’re only happy when we’re miserable...

I found this article a while back. It's not often that you find a person willing to argue with a published GOD, and being a good UU I always like a decent arguement, so when I read these paragraphs I reached for the blog:

"More objectionable than anything else is Lencioni’s thesis that “the universal causes of anguish and frustration at work” are: (1) Anonymity. Management shows little interest in you, your background or your life; (2) Irrelevance. You have no idea your work matters to anyone; and (3) Immeasurement. You have no objective way of gauging your performance.

My objections, conveniently, are threefold: (1) “immeasurement” is not a word; (2) While “anonymity”, “irrelevance” and “immeasurement” can make people unhappy, they do not do so “universally”. If you simply see work as a way of making money, then these qualities could make a job attractive; (3) There are evidently more than three signs of a miserable job and to discover how many more you need only ask some miserable friends and colleagues."

It's enough to make an absurdist existenstialist UU with sort of quaker leanings cry.

Everybody sing "Put On A Happy Face" Link to Article