The “Scum Career Development Model”
October 12 2007
A friend reminded me of this piece recently, so I thought I’d share it with those of you who have just found dh.org. I wrote this in 2004 after seeing Scum for the first time and it struck me how much simpler “prison rules” were than “corporate rules”. It is of course tongue in cheek…
I watched Scum for the first time recently. It is a great, though in places tough to watch, film which confirmed to me what I had always suspected – I would last 10 minutes in prison!
However, it did make me think about the hierarchical, structured environment in which I find myself daily – the corporate world. How interesting would work be if ‘prison rules’ applied to the workplace?
For example I could decide that I want to run my department; now normally that means working my way to the top through hardwork and ‘networking’ over some years but not with ‘prison rules’.
Under the “Scum Career Development Model” I would simply need to find the VP and batter him round the head with two snooker balls in a sock. The Senior VP would be in the toilets (if copying Scum exactly) and that would require no more than bashing his head into the sink a couple of times, kicking him around and informing him that “I’m the Daddy now!” and hey presto I now run my department.
Maybe not…