The Institute for Mediocre Management was founded to promote the values of Mediocrity, Self-Aggrandizement and Cant. We firmly believe that the old business values of Clarity, Honesty and Respect are outdated concepts in the 21^st Century and we should now;  Aim low, Reap the rewards. Succeed at any cost and Enjoy life at others expense. By following these key principles and becoming an A.R.S.E has seen our members thrive in the U.K’s top Mediocre companies with our pay rates increasing disproportionately to our companies’ success.

IMM Aims:

(1) Higher Pay for Senior Executives: 

A recent report showed that Executive pay has grown from 60 times that of the average worker to almost 180 times since the 1990s with the pay of the average FTSE 100 chief executive increased from £4.1m to £4.7m last year.

But we’re worth it. Here at the IMM we believe that an hourly pay rate of £1,000 is deserved and although we now earn in 2.5 days what the average colleague does in a year we still need to raise our game and hit the 1 day’s pay = 1 year’s pay target.

Our current advised policy, which is the most tax efficient, is to tie your remuneration to stock options based on profits. Profits are more easily generated by cutting costs than raising revenues so IMM members look to reduce workers’ pay and also to fire a few for better efficiency.

(2) A belief that firmness and fear in all things breeds obedience and order

The Institute also firmly believes that some are born to lead, others to follow and as our honorary ancient patron Aristotle so rightly observed:

 For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.

The behaviours required at the club reflect the high esteem that we all hold about ourselves. You will be expected to be pompous, high handed and curt with all club employees and any other lower orders.

In the member’s lounge, a relaxing atmosphere is created by ensuring members do not concerns themselves with the travails of the little people but promote ideas that benefit themselves or other members, that is the elite.

 We discourage the discussion of politics (there is only one Party after all) and religion (we’re all Deities to the huddled masses anyway). Bragging, Boasting and One-upmanship are all perfectly acceptable of course. There is an annual competition to find the richest and the poorest member and the latter is then traditionally mocked, humiliated and then blackballed.

Self-depreciating humour is not acceptable at any time.

(3) We are the Masters of the Masters of the Universe

 As you can see our aims are clear and our entry standards are high. Many of the senior executives from the UK’s leading mediocre companies are members. Most have seen their financial wealth increase dramatically since the recession as they reduced pay and staff numbers and took advantage of the billions pumped in the economy to invest in their wealth creation schemes whilst protecting the Masters of the Universe who created the mess in the first place.

So although the Banking industry must be thanked for inadvertently making us all a lot richer, we are unlikely to be able to have a banker as a member as they are mostly really beyond the pale and would upset our Lady members.

 Membership Criteria:

If you would like to become a member you will be required to provide evidence for:

[A] The multiple of your salary versus the lowest paid employee  (> 60 is the lowest benchmark)

[B] The average percentage of your workforce you expect to downsize per year (our members would consider around 10% to be the norm)

[C] The amount of tax paid (please provide evidence of any tax actually paid; < 5% is the target)

You will need two sponsors, one of whom needs to live abroad for tax or legal reasons and the club chairman will then review the application when he gets out of prison next year after an unfortunate misunderstanding with HMRC.

Fees: If you have to ask how much then you can’t afford them.

On joining the IMM we can deliver help and assistance by providing:

• Vision Statements (custom or off the shelf)
• Corporate Culture Creation (from pedantic to patronizing)
• Consultancy expertise for ‘Change’ and ‘Downsizing’
• Tax Avoidance schemes
• Discounted red trousers

One of the best comics around today and her Gran’s even funnier…

(Published in the Independent 06/01/15)

CNN was founded in 1980 with a promise from Ted Turner that the world’s first 24-hour cable news channel would stay on air up to and until the apocalypse.

“Barring satellite problems, we won’t be signing off until the world ends,” the now former owner said 25 years ago, promising that in the event of the end of the world, the channel would fade out with a rendition of Nearer My God to Thee.

Now a blogger claims to have unearthed the actual video, long thought to have just been a myth.

Turner Doomsday Video

Former CNN intern Michael Ballaban published a grainy, one-minute long film of a US army band performing Nearer My God to Thee on the Jalopnik website.

He said that in the CNN database the video, named Turner Doomsday Video, was marked as “HFR till the end of the world confirmed”.

CNN, once ever so thorough in its fact-checking, knew that the last employee alive couldn’t be trusted to make a call as consequential as one from the Book of Revelation.

The end of the world must be confirmed.

Seems a bit downbeat to me, we’d probably need cheering up..any suggestions?