So, what’s the deal with this ‘horse fist’ thing I tried?
I heard about this ‘horse fist’ idea a while back. Sounded like a big deal, you know? Some new way of doing things, supposedly.
Everyone was yapping about it. They said it was the next best thing for, I don’t know, maybe organizing your tools or something. I forget the exact details, but the hype was real. People talked like it would change your life.
So, I thought, alright, I’ll give it a whirl. Decided I’d actually try this ‘horse fist’ out. Rolled up my sleeves and got ready to get my hands dirty trying to figure this ‘horse fist’ out, to see if it was all that.
First off, I actually had to find out what it even was. I spent a good bit of time searching high and low, asking around. People were real vague, like it was some secret handshake.
Finally, I got some so-called instructions. It was supposed to be this amazing series of steps, but honestly, it sounded like a lot of faffing about. They laid it out something like this:
- First, you gotta, like, prepare your entire workspace. Make it all neat and tidy, almost like a ceremony.
- Then, you had to hold your hands in a very specific way – that’s the ‘fist’ part, I guess, though I didn’t see any horses.
- And then there was this part where you had to repeat some specific phrases. Not exactly chanting, but close enough to feel a bit daft doing it.
- And finally, you were meant to do some kind of grand, sweeping motion to complete the… whatever it was you were trying to achieve.
So, I did all that. I really went for it. Jumped through all the hoops they described. Set up my stuff, did the hand thing, mumbled the words. Felt pretty silly doing it, if I’m being honest with you. Put in a fair bit of effort, I did.
And the result? Zip. Nada. Zilch. Whatever problem it was supposed to solve, it stayed unsolved. My tools were still a jumble. What a load of baloney, that whole thing was. A complete waste of my afternoon.
It really took me back to this old job I had. Man, that place was something else. A real piece of work, that company.
They were always, and I mean always, chasing the latest management fad. One month it was ‘Dynamic Synergy Realignment,’ the next it was ‘Quantum Leap Productivity.’ They’d bring in these expensive consultants who’d talk a lot but say very little of substance. Cost a fortune, every single time, for these fancy new systems.
We’d all get dragged into these endless workshops and training sessions. Had to learn new jargon, fill out new stacks of forms. Pure busywork, most of it. Just more hoops to jump through for no good reason.
And did anything actually improve? Did we get more done? Course not. Not a chance. We’d just nod our heads in the meetings, make sure to say the right buzzwords if a manager was listening, and then go back to our desks and do our jobs the way we always did – the way that actually worked and got things finished.
That whole ‘horse fist’ thing? Smells just like that kind of corporate nonsense to me. Someone probably cooked it up in a meeting because it sounded catchy, thought it sounded cool and innovative, and now everyone’s supposed to pretend it’s some kind of genius breakthrough.
Me? I’m sticking to what works. No fancy names or weird hand gestures needed. Just good old common sense and actually doing the work. Most of that other stuff is just hot air anyway, designed to make someone feel important.
