tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post5815872307745607016..comments2023-12-31T13:47:05.758+00:00Comments on Fat Man on a Keyboard: Managing the mailThe Plumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-78452034913727743002009-11-12T09:34:52.108+00:002009-11-12T09:34:52.108+00:00truth! Thank You.
Two voices to add to the chorus...truth! Thank You.<br /><br />Two voices to add to the chorus: <br /><br />Stanley Bing, on management<br />Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas? on working class warsdanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09902311224633734779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-74091877490618701932009-10-29T11:07:49.883+00:002009-10-29T11:07:49.883+00:00And yesterday Haddon Cave Q.C. reported that manag...And yesterday Haddon Cave Q.C. reported that managerialism was responsible for the deaths of 14 RAF personnel when their plane exploded.<br /><br />The Defence Secretary put up a performance of bumbling incoherence on Newsnight and BAE (the contractors) deny it was anything to do with them, anticipating a mega claim over their negligence.<br /><br />Has anyone lost their well paid job? No. But 14 men died and 14 families suffered tragedy.<br /><br />It's about time this got personal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-77079697462498519142009-10-28T12:08:04.214+00:002009-10-28T12:08:04.214+00:00People are talking alot about the Royal Mail's...People are talking alot about the Royal Mail's imminent privatisation. <br /><br />Which way do you think the future owners of the Royal Mail want its perceived value as a business to go before this happens - up or down?<br /><br />You can work out the rest.Neilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-75503755896552412842009-10-26T17:48:00.490+00:002009-10-26T17:48:00.490+00:00It's rotten for me but it must be a horror for...<i>It's rotten for me but it must be a horror for her.</i><br /><br />You have forgotten the other major factor in managerial delusions, narcissism. They think they are wonderful (and good looking). It is bliss; too stupid to realise that you are stupid and bloody well paid for being stupid too.The Plumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-65343228934974940632009-10-26T16:35:32.172+00:002009-10-26T16:35:32.172+00:00"stUpid Organisation makes peePle stupid"..."stUpid Organisation makes peePle stupid"<br /><br />Yep. It's like a corollary of the Peter Principle.<br /><br />I'm managed by someone who, a few years ago, was perfectly competent at the sort of job that I now have. She's a nice and intelligent person but as a manager she simply has no idea what she's doing, which must hit her self-confidence.<br /><br />This means she has to heavily lean on the canon of managerialist bullshit because it at least gives her some sort of system for understanding what she ought to be doing. It also makes her dependent on the more senior management for guidance, making her a mouthpiece for them rather than an independent mind.<br /><br />So yes, it's a cult.<br /><br />In the meantime, she's grown out of touch with the nitty gritty of the work done by the people she manages. It's rotten for me but it must be a horror for her.Tom Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02997295899017354602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-47526089024144899812009-10-26T06:54:56.371+00:002009-10-26T06:54:56.371+00:00Andy Hornby was made head of HBOS before he was 40...Andy Hornby was made head of HBOS before he was 40 on the strength of being a retail whizz kid at Asda and having used the same skills in HBOS.<br /><br />That statement is so bizarre that it should not be believed but is true. It can only be true because common sense was ditched by people who wanted to believe what a given management theory told them, presumably that banking and food retailing are the same.<br /><br />I usually suspect that if I encountered Will, I would cross the road as a matter of prudence, but he may have a point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-34277840652506768502009-10-26T00:15:53.093+00:002009-10-26T00:15:53.093+00:00"The trouble is that the cult of the manager ..."The trouble is that the cult of the manager leads to the formation of self-congratulatory coteries that can do a lot of damage before they are finally brought to account."<br /><br />'bringing to account' to be effective means wiping the fucking scuM out wholesale and that.<br /><br />(or better still -- supersede the cunts by getting rid of the system that makes the cunts and gives the cunTs power in the first place).<br /><br />stUpid Organisation makes peePle stupid -- stupid peePle don't make oraganisation stupid.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015473239835274353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-71573167592968361332009-10-25T16:09:03.845+00:002009-10-25T16:09:03.845+00:00I'm not sure where all the bad managers are hi...<i>I'm not sure where all the bad managers are hiding. </i><br /><br />Royal Bank of Scotland? The Phoenix Four? <br /><br />You've been lucky, that's all. I have worked in both private and public sectors. I only encountered a few good ones and they were in the public sector.<br /><br />The trouble is that the cult of the manager leads to the formation of self-congratulatory coteries that can do a lot of damage before they are finally brought to account.The Plumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-47672754983943025642009-10-24T21:54:06.137+01:002009-10-24T21:54:06.137+01:00I have a vague notion that the postal strike is re...I have a vague notion that the postal strike is really about the funding of the pension deficit.<br /><br />For this to be funded out of the current Royal Mail business can only be done through a tax on the workers. Economicallt, a privatised Royal Mail with pension commitments should be allowed to go bust, and the postal workers could go to work for other businesses who can pay them a proper wage (ie a market rate based on the value of their work).<br /><br />So watch for the pension fund deal ...DorsetDipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11612884207485991011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-61415729598517989452009-10-24T21:43:11.852+01:002009-10-24T21:43:11.852+01:00I'm not sure where all the bad managers are hi...I'm not sure where all the bad managers are hiding. I've been in three different industries at different levels of management and just about all the managers I have worked with would agree with this post. Perhaps that's because I've worked in manufacturing and finance where the need to produce something customers are willing to pay for is paramount, and I've not worked for the government.DorsetDipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11612884207485991011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-66351941443698579052009-10-24T16:31:37.646+01:002009-10-24T16:31:37.646+01:00'Most of the people who work on the front line...'Most of the people who work on the front line are not obstacles, they are experts. Their knowledge is far more valuable than the snake oil of management theory.' <br /><br />By the time I reached this line I wanted to weep with the relief of having read something of sense about work for the first time in ages. Thanks for that.Rabelaishttp://mediastudiesisshit.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-25120827388120867222009-10-24T15:17:53.730+01:002009-10-24T15:17:53.730+01:00Best thing I've read for weeks. Same applies i...Best thing I've read for weeks. Same applies in education - they take outdated 'management' ideas intended for a totally different situation then wonder why people get annoyed.<br /><br />Friends in low places is what you need if you are interested in getting things done, as opposed to appearing to get things done.<br /><br />The postmen haven't helped their cause however - more articles like the one in the LRB are needed. At the moment they are losing the PR battle and looking like Luddites.CNHnoreply@blogger.com