Team Building
I thought they hired me for my skills and young adventurous mind
The team it had a few troubles “but sure you’ll do just fine”
Eager let’s get started head filled with vision I was really on a roll
Leadership needs a good start I sat and asked about their roles
They were a bright and clever bunch of eight complexes each their own
Relationships were cracked thinking old entrenched and overgrown
Reluctantly the older one he handed me the reins he had been the boss
A solid man deep thinking he would be my right hand did he give a toss
Off we went on our new voyage with me approximately at the wheel
I was running fast the ideas were flowing but I was stranded and at heel
Nothing changed seemed the team was an immovable solid rock
The cause was easy to define his ugly toxic legacy
It wasn’t how it should be me and him and the seven
No way past his folded arms his slowly nodding head
My manager pressing hard but how to make them perform
Against his battened down mind and poison draining attitude
I couldn’t focus on my tasks I was doubtless just plain rude
Some training is what you need they said
Go for a week or two and get some people skills in your head
I pushed and shoved but soon it was only to the therapist’s bed
Suicidal not sleeping head full of loathing and vile despair
Drink and drink violently to numb my creative flair
Living in a bedsit wife and family long since gone
Then came a day when the intransient head I could take no more
That weak chin it seemed so soft for such a heart of stone
They just watched my frenzy as I smashed him with a phone
A fine job my manager said you are released your bonus is on the way
The judge he said it was murder that I’d planned it for that day
I’d cruelly left his wife alone and torn their relationship apart
So here I am in this dirty prison cell wondering about our law
You can’t put people out of work for their stinking attitude
It takes strong measures to reclaim a failing team
On the balance sheet two families plus one life seem
To have brought a reasonable return
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