Or you could try “I trust you’re familiar with the Time-Cost-Quality triangle (Ladybird Book of Project Management, p2). Would you like the job to come in more expensive or with more defects in it ?”
VB
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Yup
Five-fingered deathcockpunch to the head of the “organisation” I work in for deciding that this week, when a load of people are being laid off, is the ideal time to hire two new members of the “senior leadership team”.
Who exactly are these people going to lead, you dribbling fuckmustard?
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That sounds about right…what total tossers…I feel for you 
Can’t imagine the two new people are chuffed to be joining a sinking ship!
The organisation I used to work for once hired a guy at the very top to arrange the sinking ! He replaced our Director, who was retiring because he’d reached retirement age (we used to be strict about that). The person who replaced him, admittedly on a fixed-term contract, was older !
VB
My last place had a ratio of 3x project managers to every engineer, the head of delivery was a program director from Royal Mail and believed that the fix for over running projects or problems was to throw more project managers at the issue.
Pretty normal these days, companies are obsessed with ‘leadership’, everyone has to be a leader.
Of course the flaw here is thatthen there’s no one to actually do the work.
Confusing leaders and managers methinks
Massive drop kick to the groin for James Comey.
Here he is explaining that he screwed Hillary and gave the election to Trump because women laugh at his tiny penis.
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When I worked at a very large People Moving Company the engineers were required to move in to management so that they could ‘further’ their careers and earn more money as their roles were not deemed important enough to get pay rises. Result was that we had too many ex-engineers who didn’t know how to manage, not enough engineers to do the actual work and senior management wondering WTF went wrong.
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This is known as the Peter Principle and is depressingly all too common.
I (briefly) worked under a very, very smart guy (PhD in maths from Cambridge) who was also something readily identifiable on the autistic spectrum (maths and autism - who’d have thought it).
Instead of being left to do what he was (very) good at, those in charge decided he needed to be a manager in order to get more money. In reality he shouldn’t have been left in charge of a box of biscuits, let alone a team of people. He distressed himself as much as he did the people supposedly working for him. It’s the first, and hopefully last, time I’ve ever seen someone literally jump up on a desk and start kicking computer equipment hither and thither in a truly epic fit of rage. The rest of the time he couldn’t even look you in the eye.
Anyway, you get the idea, I’ll shut up now.
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Of the companies I’ve worked for I have to admit BMW got this right. They valued people for differnent competencies and had a grading system which meant that if you were for example the best ride and handling engineer in Europe then they paid you like one and more than a great number of senior managers. If your talents were in management and results then you were paid accordingly. There was never a need for specialists who might be unsuited to leadership and management having to take on those roles just because of status or remuneration.
Added to that nearly everyone was a qualified engineer in any case including most of the Execs and Board.
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the bastards made me pay for that bloody monitor as well
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Backbone of the Civil Service is that.
I’m sitting in Liverpool Airport having been summoned to Dublin urgently. It looks like being 86 with fairly advanced dementia might finally catch up with my Mum.
2016 has been a shocker so far. I wonder what else can go wrong?
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Sorry to hear that Olan. You’re in my thoughts.
VB
Bugger, that is shit news.
Puts shit in to perspective that does.
Sad news Olan, Sorry to hear it.