6. Polar Bear Pirates - Adrian Webster
I originally thought that this was a comedic look at the world and the different people encountered but much to my disappointment, it is a self-help book! Despite realising this quite soon after starting it, I continued read simply out of curiosity.
It offers odd descriptions of different kinds of people you will encounter, particularly those preventing you from becoming a ‘polar bear pirate’ (someone who has achieved their goals, become who they want to be). Although attempting to be funny, it seems to just be patronising and annoying. I most definitely did not enjoy reading this.
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Oh God, you can’t begin to imagine.
I’ve just left a job at a popular high street off-license chain here in the UK. I worked there for several years, and it was plain to see that it was awfully managed, and they didn’t give a flying shit about their staff.
Sadly, they thought one of the methods to regenerate staff morale was to invest in Adrian Webster’s “Polar Bear Pirates” bollocks. That’s when I left
Like you say, at first it sounds “comical” (though it’s comically unfunny!), but the more you dig beneath the surface of this crap, the more you realise it’s just a lazy method of stereotyping people into convenient roles, and quashing any constructive criticism people may have.
Adrian Webster’s concept understandably sounds fresh and exciting to thumb-sucking cretins sitting in boardrooms across the world, but sadly it just gives those inept morons the ability to stereotype their own staff and ignore any real problems and concerns their staff may raise.
GAH.