"I jump through hoops to get things done"

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This is written on a poster on the wall at work. I think it's a rubbish message.

Crap message unless you work for a hula hoop company.

Jumping through hoops is what “trained” circus animals do. They do it because their “trainer” hits them when they don’t. Jumping though hoops means you have no backbone or sense of self-worth.

I always thought it meant going above and beyond to get things done... or dealing with tricky people/situations to get to the end result.

Whatever, it's rubbish on a poster!

Jumping through hoops to me means fairly meaningless barriers that people have to jump through to progress their career

What a load of Sh*t

Ah, don't ya just love workplace bollocks?

What grates on me at my work is 'TEAM WORK MAKE THE DREAM WORK.'

Thing is, the managers want people to be a TEAM as long it suits THEM. When opportunities come up to gain anything - vouchers and freebies etc, they keep them to themselves.

Ah, don't ya just love workplace bollocks?

What grates on me at my work is 'TEAM WORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK.'

Thing is, the managers want people to be a TEAM as long it suits THEM. When opportunities come up to gain anything - vouchers and freebies etc, they keep them to themselves.

I take my Health and Safety training seriously: absolutely no hoops in my office.

Just write underneath it 'you're an idiot'.

There's a special place in hell reserved for workplace bullshit.

A better poster would say: 'Bills don't pay themselves, it would appear, thus here I am'.

If someone has to 'jump through hoops' to get things done in their workplace, it usually means the technology, administration and infrastructure is crap .

This is the poster I have up at work

Do you make basketball related items or a certain round crisp which is very tasty? (totally misses point)

Dare you to write "You don't have to be a clown to work here, but it helps" underneath

no, unfortunately I dare not

Boo!

Replace it with one of these

despair.com/collections/demotivators

Management had some arty photo posters done showing "interpretations" of our work. One was so arty they hung upside down (and it had people on it so bit of a clue which way up). It seemed like a metaphor for work.

that's proper daft. 'i overcome barriers..' or something, wanky but maybe. jumping through hoops is usually used to mean the workplace sticks in unnecessary bureaucratic crap which makes things harder... so as screamingvalenta says, the company's basically insulting itself.

It sounds like one of those questions on online job applications where you have to select strongly disagree, disagree, not sure, agree, strongly agree

My work had loads of photos taken of the place when it was tidy showing what it "should look like". The photos were taken while the place was empty of staff so I took that as gospel and haven't been in since.

The phrase ‘jumping through hoops’ has negative connotations for me - unnecessary things put in your way to prevent you from doing what you want. Not really the type of message that motives. Like pp said ‘overcoming barriers’ is more motivational.