lazy_workerI once had this boss that was all smoke and mirrors. You know where they spend all their time convincing other people they are important and an essential part to the team, but in reality they don’t do jack and your dept. could probably function better if they would just get out of the way. It’s like when people show up early to the office just to brag about how they’re such a “dedicated worker.” But then you realize they leave out the fact that during the extra time they aren’t doing anything at all that is work related. Thus, the need for all the smoke and mirrors to distract from the higher ups/people lurking in to evaluate what that person actually contributes to the company’s production.

Yeah, kind of how I feel about this current President.  Trying To Grok has a great recap from one of Obama’s colleagues at the Harvard Law Review. The same Law Review that so many Obamanaiacs bragged about when citing reasons the Kool-Aid man should be president. I didn’t buy it then and now am certainly enjoying the validation in not believing the hype.

[W]hen he was at the HLR you did get a very distinct sense that he was the kind of guy who much more interested in being the president of the Review, than he was in doing anything as president of the Review.  A lot of the time he quote/unquote “worked from home”, which was sort of a shorthand – and people would say it sort of wryly – shorthand for not really doing much. He just wasn’t around. Most of the day to day work was carried out by the managing editor of the Review, my predecessor, a great guy called Tom Pirelli whose actually going to be one of the assistant attorney generals now.  He’s the one who did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then he’d leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done.

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