Comments on: Office fauna

By: Rodri

Rodri — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:36:12 +0000

I think that, in the process of becoming a boss, some people tend to have less time for certain things and just get tired of criticism or bad news. Therefore, a person that always inflates their ego or tell them that everything is alright, is the type of person that they would rather have around.
Think of it this way: is a boss a good boss if they are surrounded by suck-ups?

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By: shuje

shuje — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:45:04 +0000

Juancho, Darwin applies. Without the original suckup, there could not be a copycat. Sadly, I don’t think they will evolve themselves into extinction. Good suggestions, I might do a follow up based on all the input I received.

By: juanU

juanU — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:35:55 +0000

Popular subject you are into my friend! I can resist enlarging your list: forwarders, event front liners and more positve…superheroes. Funny that none of them seems to be under the risk of dissapearing: Darwin does not apply to IT enviroment?

By: shuje

shuje — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:44:45 +0000

Thanks Komal. It’s nice to know that holoom has an actual meaning somewhere. We came up with it by combining the greek word holos (whole) with loom (weaving machine). Also it’s good to know it does not mean “To go crazy and kill everyone”.

By: Indroneil

Indroneil — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:48:11 +0000

Shuje …

Very interesting !!!

In India, there’s a language called Bengali – which happens to be my mother tongue.

In a Bengali dialect ‘holoom’ means ‘i have become’ …

Holoom therefroe is quite an appropriate name for all the ‘becomings’ you have listed

By: shuje

shuje — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:21:33 +0000

Good point. For most of these creatures to blossom you need a politicized environment.

By: Pankaj Garg

Pankaj Garg — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:11:29 +0000

This is excellent post. However I think its true at the places with well defined hierarchy. If you look at small companies, you will find plenty of other species as well

By: shuje

shuje — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:03:28 +0000

Another interesting question would be: Why bosses of these people tend to encourage this behavior? It’s not educational and actually harmful for the company or group.

By: shuje

shuje — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:01:53 +0000

So true. I would call the first one “Problem Forwarders”, I don’t know what those people would do without the forward button in their mail clients. The second type is the “diva” variant of the traditional self-promoter.