Two men walk into a meeting room. They sit down, talk chit chat and then get to business.
I have great news, you’re going to get your bonus, even though corona hit our company very hard. the bonus will be calculated over the last quarter of 2019! – the one man says.
Are you kidding me? The company did great, but due to corporate structure we took a hot because other countries are having a sales crisis. Moreover I have the right to that bonus over 12 months, because on paper I got promoted in October, but I’ve done that job already from January. And I have hit my revenue target for the whole year. – the other man says.
Who of these two people is right?
The answer is: both people are right. And both people failed the expectation test. Both expected something else from the conversation so both men walk away with less than they came with.
The third man, having overheard this conversation, because the door was open, sighs. It’s the cleaner. He puts the mop back in the bucket and squeezes it. Thinking, I am very lucky not to have a bonus structure for this cleaning job.
The title of this blog was freely translated from a sentence in the Dutch poem “The Dapperstraat”