Two people invent ridiculous corporate phrases for workplace annoyances: bullshit bingo for meetings where everyone pretends things are fine, massaging elbows for pointless tasks, and teaching a fish how to climb a tree for putting people in the wrong jobs.
Corporate slang that doesn't exist, but it should.
Oftentimes you'll be in a meeting and people are lying. They'll be like, well, we're doing great. And it's like, well, we're not really doing that great. Hey, are we having a meeting about what we're going to do, or are we just playing bullshit bingo and winning right now?
Situation where we're trying really hard, but we're working on the wrong things. Feels like we're just massaging elbows here. You're working on something that doesn't really matter. There's not enough meat on the bone there. Wrong place to be applying the effort. I like that one. But you have one more. So the phrase is, I think we're trying to teach a fish how to climb a tree. And it's when you have an employee and you put them in a position that's not really their core strength. A technical person, you got them on Calls, and you'd just be better off putting them in their natural environment and letting them succeed there than really just working against the laws of nature.
