After screening through several of the posts & comments I think if only 50% of it would be true, there is enough feed to make a movie out it. As I am not looking like an actor, I volunteer to write the story. Initial proposals:
BlaBlaLand
Short story: Musical about people working in a company in which many people are talking but not acting. 3 hours of singing and dancing!
Cast away – 2
Short story: Every laid off employee will get as severance a Volleyball named “Wilson”. Main story is about an isolated mid age employee (Tom Hanks). Left by his wife. Ignored by his neighborhood. The only interaction he could have is with Wilson. You will need many hankies!
Rainman -2
Short story: Take a look behind the scenes of the anonymous world of senior management. Answer by the movie the question, how people without connection to reality can run a company!
Mission Impossible 10
Short story: Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team are having a new mission: Find within 3 hours on the Houston Campus just 1 employee out of 1000s meeting the following criteria: Normal MPT, normal performance, never received incentives, highly motivated & fully engaged, having a good Manager. If the IMF is not successful, EM will be merged with a Chinese company.
After 1 h in this mission, Ethan is asking for Mission 11 which is about a trip to Mars. He is not working stupid impossible missions.
Exxon and Aliens
Short story: An employee on the Houston Campus has to find out, that we are having Aliens in our environment. And they are influencing the direction of the company
Back to the Future – 4
Short story: An EM employee is travelling back in time approx. 20 years. Target destination: Golf course in the US. Mission of this trip: avoid a match between 2 CEO’s and avoid by this the merger! After travelling back into today times the EM employee finds out: everything is good….Happy end….EM has developed to the “greenest” Oil company ever.
A sitcom might work as well, maybe something like “Two and a half Management”? Charlie Sheen as CEO? Why not!
I have to stop now, have my next 1:1 with my own Wilson to discuss my individual strategy. Wilson is not saying a lot, but saying nothing means YES. I will ask him today, if I better should start searching for a job outside EM. Happy to receive Wilson’s guidance!