With this much horse manure, there must be a pony in here somewhere...
What can you do when you work in a severely dysfunctional environment? Can you do more than just 'grin and bear it'?
As some have found, there's a learning opportunity in every work situation.
If nothing else, you can take comfort in knowing that you have an opportunity to learn valuable lessons even while suffering:
It was a family-owned business run by the third generation, a notoriously dangerous phase. The company made things — like cedar shingles and telephone poles — though not terribly efficiently. They lost things — like money — with much greater success. Meggy worked for the grandson of the founder. "He actually had a degree, which blew me away, but he had no concept of anything," says Meggy. "We were going broke and he was looking at trying to buy a company plane." Meggy buckled up as management flew the company into receivership, and eventually bankruptcy, thinking all the while: "I could do better myself."
In fact, he has. He walked away from the wreckage with many lessons learned. The result is the Great Little Box Co...
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