It’s all in the name…

This seems to be a popular topic so allow me to address it. If you’ve never been a manager and suddenly you become an entrepreneur with employees (and don’t build an HR department or someone to baby your children) you deal with employees failing you in the worst of ways:

“Your job could be done by a monkey. It would be cheaper and easier to train a monkey than you.”

Ouch. So a bunch of us started referring to our front line infantry as monkeys. Fast forward a few months to an event where a buddy of mine had issues with his staff. While he was gone they “let the fire burn” and when he came back to kill them the following line ensued:

“I could make more money by setting it on fire and burning it than giving it to you to do your job.”

And then.. this cartoon came out:

Any time you can get something that can bring a smile to your face when you’re dealing with difficult stuff.. you use it.

So there you go. From an inside joke among friends to a hopefully biggest gift anyone has ever given the MSP community. Enjoy it: http://www.shockeymonkey.com