Mr. Mom

The Biotech Mecca is lousy with consultants. Some of these consultants are actually good, but almost universally they are given next to no direction and are allowed to run off in any direction they wish. In even more extreme cases, the consultants tell the senior management how to run the company. Unfortunately, running a company this way tends to provide the worst in seagull management.

One of the most feared (for being annoying) consultants at the Biotech Mecca is Mr Mom. Mr. Mom is a friend of the fearful COO, but is such a sociopath, he immediately became the most trusted confidant of the CEO (Swiper the fox).

The strange thing about Mr. Mom is that he was supposedly super successful, and then decided to stay at home to raise the kids while his wife works. Is he married to Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? Something doesn't add up, but in any case, Mr. Mom is on the senior management team, and like those big, ugly cockroaches, he's here to stay.

The Sarcastic Brit received the following email from a friend of his that works for the competition. This message was in response to the announcement on the Mecca's web site that Mr. Mom had been named to the senior management team.

Hi there,

he's a psychopath. I absolutely cannot stand him. Hopefully he's not
going to manage anyone directly-he's an arrogant bully.
He'll undoubtedly tell everyone how many times he saved his former employer's
arse (most of which I have found out are not true) and he'll claim he
invented the industry standard (which he didn't).

That said, he's really smart, and definitely knows his stuff on the
chemistry front (for instrument/product specifications/opportunities). In
an advisory role, I could see how he might be useful. Maybe.
Perhaps. If you're desperate.

My advice would be to tread very carefully, and avoid him as much as
you can. I'll keep my ears open about jobs in the area-there are
definitely some opptys out there, they're just a bit more scarce
than they have been...

Hope you are well otherwise,

Cheers,
The Sarcastic Brit's Friend


In another email, the Sarcastic Brit's friend offered this analysis:

just saw the news that The Biotech Mecca has recruited Mr. Mom to help advise them... You really are screwed now...
(to be fair, in his rare moments of sanity/sobriety-he does have the occasional lucid thought about how to get products to market)

You may think that the Sarcastic Brit's friend has a personal vendetta against this guy. That may be, but I do not think without reason. I will elaborate in a later post.

Where's that man-eating vacuum when you need it?