Lala companies are unique in a way that can make you sick, very sick.
During the times of a crisis, especially, their hollowness shines through clearly.
Though if one were attentive enough one can easily and clearly see their hollowness even during the normal times too.
In Lala companies., during any crisis, the hypocrisy and the hollowness are generally on a blatant display and in a much bigger way.
The effort is to stage-act the impression that the affairs are being managed in a seasoned and sensitive manner.
However, things happen in an absolute non-transparent manner.
There is a freeze on hiring but the communication around that is hazy and ambiguous.
The height of idiocy is such that hiring for open positions in a certain department are put on hold without consulting or informing the actual head of that department about the same.
Simply because, that head of department is a professional and not a part of the group of stooges in the company.
The ridiculous part is that the lala company is structured in a way that only the stooges get to know what is going on.
The stooges are insecure of their positions since they lack real competence, maturity and depth of thinking and can save themselves only by protecting their exclusive turf.
Hence true professionals in many senior positions in the company are kept in dark, and the silly stooges take decisions and run the company like a comedy show.
Things and communications are done or not done since the stooges do not know what needs to be done and what not.
For example, there is no communication related to the the yearly ritual of promotions and increments.
The fate of the yearly process related to promotions and increments is left to the imagination of the poor employees.
The employees are let to figure out and speculate on not only the above but many other things too.
After all, the employees have no where to go during the times of such a crisis.
So why bother?
In professional companies, on the other hand, there is a crystal clear and transparent communication on such matters and on related matters like job cuts, pay cuts, hike freeze or deferral, furloughs (mandatory leave without pay), etc.
The HR head in a Lala company is a pet dog of the top people and wags her tail when told to and as told to.
The key strategic competency of the HR person at the helm is his ability to serve as a henchman.
This man is an anti-thesis of professionalism and strategic thinking.
He is an expert manipulator and extremely versed with the principles of hollowness and hypocrisy.
The top man and his stooges act as if they are the most brilliant managers the corporate world has ever seen.
They send out self-congratulatory messages mentioning their genius in anticipating the crisis and managing it better than the entire world!
They write condescending e-mails saying they did a great job.
They write silly e-mails highlighting simple tasks as significant accomplishments.
The mails written to all employees seem to excessively focus on enhancing personal connect and employee safety whereas another set of emails within a select group in the Lala company focus only on productivity of delivery and operations.
Why such a disconnect?
Looks like a general employee is assumed to be dumb whereas every employee these days has enough information at his disposal to see the chalk from the cheese.
Again duplicity and non-transparency are the key tools used to manage the affairs.
In professional companies, on the other hand, the e-mails written to all employees do focus on business continuity as much as they focus on personal connect and employee safety.
Professional companies treat their employee as equal partners in managing the crisis and hence assume that every employee knows business continuity is as important as employee safety if not more.
The Lala companies carry a condescending and patriarchal view that the top man and the stooges are the ones who are obliging others by taking care of them.
They fail to understand that this thought process reeks of hypocrisy and immaturity and professional companies treat their employees with maturity as equal partners in crisis management.
Alas, the Lala companies will never change.
The whole idea of creating an organization structure where loyalty and being a stooge is regarded as a core competency will never allow a Lala company to truly transform itself.
Once a Lala company and forever a Lala company.
One can only hope and pray that the Lala companies survive all and every crisis for a very simple reason.
The flaws and follies of the top man and his stooges should not impact the others.
The top dog and his pets can go to hell.
And they, in fact, deserve to go that way.
However, the employees in such companies deserve dignity and continuity of income.
They should not suffer.
