'Don't you ever, don't you ever lower yourself, forgetting all your standards.'
I am Prince Charming in a world of Wannabees. To me, excellence is something to strive for. Unfortunately, I am one of a dying breed. My colleagues - sadly, those higher up the pecking order with more clout than I have - see excellence as too much like hard work. Instead, they strive for adequacy and, what is worse, they criticize those few of us who are still going for gold. Brass will suit them very nicely, thank you, and they don't want anyone else wasting time on delivering a better service.
You would not believe the amount of time being wasted by people who earn £30K+ a year over a simple line in an internal document for MY meeting, which none of them attend (let me repeat that, an internal document for MY meeting). That's not a line of text, by the way, that is a line, as in
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I've added it to MY document to break up a mass of impenetrable text (which they produce) into more readable sections. So far there have been a dozen different conversations and a flurry of emails about why I did it (although no-one has asked me directly). Why don't these people get on with some real work? God knows they're paid enough ...
And now another song springs to mind:
We gotta get out of this place
If it's the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
'cause girl, there's a better life for me and you
