Apropos of that, I did see a rather apt quote recently, in connection with the passing of the (poison) chalice to the Dour Scruff.
"When we were an empire, we were ruled by an emperor"
"When we were a kingdom, we were ruled by a king"
"Now we are a country...
Oh definitely. Magnus enjoys exploring the pond - especially if it involves plunging up to his armpits in slimy mud. He brings Trevor indoors several times a day but never actually damages him at all. Trevor doesn't seem to mind at all. Once Magnus gets bored, Trevor hops outside again, into the pond and the cycle repeats. Despite there being quite a large number of frogs, Trevor is always the one who is invited to play. We aren't sure whether this is because of his distinctive bright green markings or because he enjoys the experience.
The biggest laugh we had was when we gave the local job-center an opportunity to find us a someone that actually wanted to work.
After a month we had a call from them asking us to give us reasons why we hadn't seen any of the 20 applicants as suitable for employment... Oh how we laughed... I think we had 3 in total that actually approached us 2 of which just about managed to write their names on the application and one who had put his only reason for applying for the job was to fulfill his required number of applications to continue claiming benefit!
Best, I'm a genius. Worst, I'm too modest.
Yup - you got it. This is an example of the "Sellafield Effect" (when you want to get away from an embarassing legacy, change your name and pretend the old situation was nothing to do with you) Fans of dilbert know that the next best thing is to re-organise.
Changing the name is also part of the dehumanising of the workplace. Instead of acknowleging that your staff are "personnel", they are now merely resources: like staplers or light-bulbs, and can therefore be exploited and discarded with the same lack of consideration.
Piers James wrote: >> Having said that, HR departments do seem to have favourite questions >> that are trotted out whether they are important or not.
Establishment?
Owain
That's naive.
The graveyards are littered with the corpses of people who thought they were indispensible.
Applying the name "personnel" or "HR" doesn't affect that.
In other words, nobody should have delusions of grandeur through dealing with personnel departments. In both cases, their primary role is to protect the liabilities of the company in respect of statutory and other employment requirements. It isn't to protect the interests of the employee and in reality it never was.
This does not mean to say that HR (or even personnel) departments should be seen as the bad guys, but nobody should be under any illusion that they are a welfare service or anything of that nature.
If one has that understanding, the question of exploitation doesn't arise, because the employee is, as he should be, responsible for his own interests.
Did you have any expectation that the Job Centre would be able to do anything worthwhile or was this an exercise to confirm what is already known - i.e. that they are incompetent?
We thought there may just be a slight chance of providing someone with a chance of local employment.
Wouldn't have that problem now though as most of the locals are polish, willing to work, and not lazy fuchs.
He could walk the Plank?
Owain
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