We Must be Pressured!

Today, I received an email being forwarded numerous times from big boss to big boss congratulating their subordinates and patting each other's back. That's just normal in my company. However, what caught my colleague's and my eye is part of a sentence in the email sent out by one of the senior idiots in marketing.

[The email was sent to a bunch of people, cc'ed a bunch of bosses]

Hi [some product] team,
Thanks for great training that you have conducted during 1st week of [removed], I am sure your performance in 2nd week will be equally excellent too.

Besides, I heard from [Bigger Idiot] that a lot of people are interested about our [a product], and pls collect more feedback from the [other people], to share with those not able to attend the meeting. Especially to the R&D team, to let them know that their design received a lot of attention, so that they can be proud of it, and have pressure to complete the project as earlier as possible.

Yep, that sums it up. R&D has to be pressured to complete projects as earl"ier" as possible. This guy either does not have a good command of English, or he really thinks that way.The key to working in my company's R&D is to resist all pressure from all sources to speed up the completion date of your project so that you can do a proper job. These people don't know or don't care that proper engineering work needs time. All they want is doing things faster and cheaper.

Key to all this is, and I quote a person I respect who works in my company but in an environment not as screwed up as mine...

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