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Do you get messages about these Gestapo seminars for useless managers?
The latest one – shades of 1984 – is called How Managers Can Confront – and Stop – Unacceptable Employee Behavior It sure tells you how to kick the rebs into line It includes a “module” called “Progressive Discipline: The …
Read MoreA holy man’s last request
An old priest lay dying in a London hospital. For years he had faithfully served the people of the nation’s capital. He motioned for his nurse to come near. “Yes, Father?” said the nurse. “I would really like to see …
Read MoreYahoo up their own derriere – the $100 million rebranding that won’t work. Not ever.
A few years ago I chaired a series of lectures or something like that for some of the best advertising students in Britain. They had to do an exercise on selling Yahoo, and the overwhelming impression I formed was that …
Read MoreAs ye sow, so shall ye reap
I got this today, with a heading about beating the Postal Strike. It’s a relevant comment on commercial suicide as practiced by the Royal Mail. “I wanted to drop you a quick line to see if you were working on …
Read MoreThe mole speaks out about Billy and the Morons…
My well-placed mole (who is not a Tory politician – he writes too well) says this: Billy and around 420,000 others (past and present employees of the Royal Mail) are currently around £8 billion to £10 billion quid short on …
Read MoreDumb and dumber. Fat-gut Billy tells it like it is in his historic drive towards total unemployment. TNT anyone?
The other night I was in my local which is frequented by postal “workers” who do half a day then go in there to down six or seven pints of lager. I start around the same time as them and …
Read MoreThe credit crunch: a victim speaks
A friend who was in the IT business has severe financial problems. I know how he feels, because I’ve been there myself. It’s not really his fault – he’s been screwed right, left and centre by one or two business …
Read MoreNo wonder Tesco are worried… or, time to leave the country before they switch the lights out
In case you didn’t notice, the other day the boss of Tesco let out a yowl of dismay about the dire state of education here. When a supermarket can’t find people smart enough to arrange the fruit and veg, God …
Read MoreHow many mugs are paying their IT agencies to get screwed like this? Or, there’s one born every minute
Recession or no recession, there are still plenty of rip-offs going on. I know one client that pays an agency tens of thousands a month just for being there. Not doing anything. Just being there. My friend Ian reports: One …
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