A secret document has been found left on a filing cabinet at the Ministry of Justice.It is a graphic representation, presumably a training aid, of the current management structure in the Courts' Service. The person in the hole represents a magistrate.
Going back some years, while waiting at Gatwick airport for our plane to have a tyre change, I noticed there were six supervising and one changing.
ReplyDeleteAs is the case, they were probably all giving different instructions to the technician.
Is this the new structure of Team BS?
ReplyDeleteIf it is, the bloke from Poland must be Joseph Conrad.
DeleteHis late-acquired command of English was certainly on a par with BS's, but JC did manage to master the use of apostrophes...
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DeleteYou see, we have this picture up on the wall as well, and everyone laughs at it.
ReplyDeleteWhat no-one seems to realise is that the hole is ONLY BIG ENOUGH FOR ONE PERSON. Changing off people to give each one a break (note there's at least one other person with a shovel) is by far the most efficient way of digging this hole.
If you put two or more people in there no-one would be able to do any work, and the hole would end up never being dug...
Which presumably means that in this photo we have clear proof that they DO keep an eye on what a DJ(MC) does; lowly mags would need three people in a hole. Not that the hole would be any bigger.
DeleteThe most efficient way of digging this hole, perhaps, but is it the most efficient use of the organisation's labour overall? Only if digging the hole is the only job they have on.
DeleteAnd now we are so far into the land of "proof by shitty analogy" that reality has disappeared over the horizon.
DeleteI'm pretty sure that when I was appointed, the court was run by 1 manager and his PA in addition to the essential staff (legal advisors, summons team etc). Last time I looked the management of the court (i.e. the equivalent of the manager and his PA) occupied an entire floor of a large office and the number of useful court staff had gone down by a third. Now I know that this is a problem that is endemic in government institutions (e.g. NHS) but the picture encapsulates everything that is wrong with the management of the country. At work, I was required to justify every aspect of the work done by my team every year, and treat every item of expenditure as though it was my own money. What a difference now, being in the public sector.
ReplyDeleteWell, something has to be done to employ all those people with MBAs.
DeleteI though McDonalds was the employer of choice for MBAs
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ReplyDeleteBoard of directors
CEO
Training department
The board and the CEO are not in the photo because the golf course is out of frame!
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