MOLIN LAB / BOOK 02
Dear Roof Tile
A satire about bad management, empty performance reviews and systems that keep themselves busy.
It begins with a performance review. You have prepared. Your manager has found last year’s template. You discuss development, but nobody can say towards what. You are told to take more ownership of something you are not allowed to decide. The meeting ends with an action plan that nobody opens again until next year’s review.
Meanwhile, the projects are revisited. Not because anyone has gained a new insight, but because they are in the calendar. Around the table sit people who neither understand the project nor care what it is supposed to do for the people using it. They can, however, talk at length about the process. When someone asks a concrete question, another workshop is proposed.
At first, employees try to explain the problem. Then they try to solve it. Eventually, they learn that initiative brings more work while silence brings peace. Quiet quitting creeps in. You arrive on time, deliver what was agreed and stop spending your evenings rescuing decisions you warned against that morning.
Others experience the movement from the opposite direction. Their tasks are reassigned. Invitations stop arriving. Decisions about their work are made in meetings they no longer attend. Their manager is always busy when they ask for clarity. Silent firing becomes a way of getting employees to find the door themselves while management talks about wellbeing.
In time, the system grows so large that the work consists of keeping the system running. Status reports are written about other status reports. A steering committee awaits clarification from a forum that first needs a mandate from the steering committee. Everyone is booked. Everyone delivers slides. Nobody can remember when anyone last delivered something useful.
Then the roof tile hits. The moment you realise that the organisation has made busyness its product, and you have become a resource in a system that measures success by how much space it occupies. A fictional MOLIN satire about empty management jargon, vanishing engagement and the sheer stupidity that can send even an advanced system round in circles.
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