Back from Holiday in Exmoore
Read this gem in the Telegraph on the ferry yesterday.
lol
All this stuff about "training" is an absolute bane of corporate life these days, and it seems to be seeping (or to have sept) into political and educational life as well.
The theory, such as it is, goes like this:
(a) something has gone wrong
(b) all of our policies are OK, so it must be somebody's fault
(c) so we will finger X (a junior) for it
(d) and we will tell our customer that we have changed our procedures (even though we didn't have any procedures for this in the first place)
(e) and we might even sack X
(f) and we will talk about training every junior at X's level and below to not do it again
(g) but we won't get around to actually doing that because it is too hard or too expensive
(h) so next time it happens we will finger another junior and do the same thing
The practice, such as it should be, goes like this:
(a) we fucked up
(b) can't blame X because we left him to his own devices, gave him no guidance and he did what he thought was best
(c) so we should either sack the manager responsible or sharpen up our management procedures
(d) let's sharpen up our management procedures then - or even just let it go and admit that sometimes people make mistakes huh? That's a good idea, because what management procedures have we got anyway?
