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[jhb171achill]

4 hours ago, Northroader said:

Maybe it’s just the rest of us like a quiet life. One boss I had was a master con artist. A group of us would be discussing a job, and he would turn to you with a look of low cunning, and say confidentially, man to man: “You  know what I’m talking about, eh, Bob?” and I never had the b**** to say “ I haven't got a f****** clue!”

Sounds SOO like the pre-bust banking world, which I inhabited; led by senior staff more interested in good brandy piss-ups with their golfing buddies, yet with the intellect of a snobbish dung-beetle who had failed all his exams at 14….. and middle management with tongues longer than the width of their brains…..

I just got on with things, and spent 16 years as a union rep, mostly to annoy them!

Yes, fellow IRM-heads, most of us have been there!

Edited April 29 by jhb171achill

[Darius43]

Once had a director emailing me saying that a “pier review” was required for a certain project.

My reply of “oh good, does this mean we are going to the seaside”, appeared to go over their head.

Cheers

Darius

[Mol_PMB]

2 minutes ago, Darius43 said:

Once had a director emailing me saying that a “pier review” was required for a certain project.

My reply of “oh good, does this mean we are going to the seaside”, appeared to go over their head.

Cheers

Darius

Ah, you’ll need these people to help with that…

[Darius43]

On the topic of QC/QA I recall a university lecture where the implementation of QC at Rolls Royce Aero Engines was highlighted.  The system was called MAGPIE, which the engineers quickly dubbed Manufacture And Generation of Paper Instead of Engines.

Cheers

Darius

[jhb171achill]

There’s just something about middle management in large companies, isn’t there! 
 

They even have their own (inevitably inane) language. In the bank, they used to refer to completing a task as “covering off” whatever it was; and the task in hand was a “piece”. 
 

How could ANYONE even begin to take seriously a 40-something clown in a natty business suit standing in front of a flipchart wittering on in faux-urgent tones about “covering off the investment piece”….

Yawn. 

The room we had our meetings in, I can assure you, had exactly 273 ceiling tiles, or parts of them at the edges. I know - I counted them all, many times. 

It gets worse. They don’t agree to SIGN a document. It has to be “signed off on”. 

The real world and the English language never got a look in, still less any form of critical thought.

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by jhb171achill

[skinner75]

I hate managers. If I was in the army, I'd hate officers

[Darius43]

Back in the ninties when companies had “vision statements” and “values” we were encouraged at the ends of meetings to discuss with our clients the company “values” that been exemplified in the meeting.

After one meeting for a project in the Channel Islands, one director decided that “collaboration” was the appropriate value to expound upon. Needless to say it went down badly with that particular audience…

Cheers

Darius

 

[Tullygrainey]

17 minutes ago, Darius43 said:

 

After one meeting for a project in the Channel Islands, one director decided that “collaboration” was the appropriate value to expound upon. Needless to say it went down badly with that particular audience…

Cheers

Darius

 

That takes the biscuit for tone deaf!