How Christmas has changed.....

[desiv]

Christmas isn't the same at all. Over here in the USA it's about as commercial as it can get.

I was listening to a radio spot over here for a Christmas "contest" they have.

It's the "It's a Wonderful Life" contest. Complete with quotes from the movie all over the spot.

If you win, you get...

"LOTS OF ELECTRONIC TOYS TO MAKE YOUR LIFE WONDERFUL"!!!

Yep...

If there's one thing that movie taught us, it's that "your life is wonderful because of things."

I feel all Christmasy... ;-)

desiv

 

[ddni]

I manage a team of 20 medics. This December 1st, my company sent me an email which will begin a 3 month consultation process with a view to reducing the team of 21 (me included) by 60%...

Guess who has to break the news

Happy Christmas.

How the hell are like 8 people suppossed to do the work of 21? Medics too...

Apparently by engaging in a "Route cause capability audit" we will "identify inefficiencies" and "emerge with a team that is fit for purpose, which delivers an optimal end user experience"....

 

[AmiNeo]

Sounds like what MS didnt do with Windows Vista



So basically, theyre getting assessed, and the ones that perform worst are out? That is the major Suxxorz

 

[ddni]

Yep.

 

[Merlin]

The last time that I checked, Harvard wasn't a medical school....:nuts:

The 'managers' (I use that term loosely) that came out with that drivel you quoted won't see what you mean until they are ill, then all of the 'blue sky, out-of-the-box thinking and dreaming bigger dreams' won't help them. Neither will 'optimising our knowledge base and asset portfolio, to secure successful outcomes in our value led customer experience'.

Harvard-style managers? I've st them. Harvard speak is used by some managers that can't cut it in the job, to try and bluff the people under them that they do have a clue. If you have to resort to this claptrap to justify what you are doing, you shouldn't be in that job. It's "Tarquin and Jemima" marketing speak, nothing more...

Hopefully, one of the inefficiencies you will identify is the lack of clarity, via which managers communicate instructions and ideas to their staff, if you follow me....<hint>

When it comes to medical management, Yoda had it spot on...
"Do or do not, there is no try...", except in your world, sometimes it's "Die or die not, there is no try..."

 

[AmiNeo]

I'd be pulling the buggers up on lack of clarity and questioning their decisions... Ofcourse that'd probably lose me my job...