Tag: HR
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Cold Played
What a palaver at Astronomer – I would think that the handsy bossman is already seeing stars, courtesy of his chip-spitting missus. Mind you, I toiled in outsourced contact centres for 20 years or so, and I can’t remember a time when the CEO wasn’t banging the HR Director. Let’s face it, soaking up psycho…
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No-BAME Culture
‘Diversity and inclusion have never been more important’. They’re at it again, all those boorish recruitment consultants, so-called brand specialists, and advertising gurus churning out whatever toss they think might snag them a hatful of clicks. And it’s always been important. Not more so now. It’s the concept of diversity that has never been more…
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Bannerna Skin
The chap who organised the Burnley banner has been fired by his company, as has his girlfriend. In its statement the bloke’s employer concerned cited the banner ‘and other related issues’. Predictably, this has been interpreted by many within the social media wilderness as an attack on free speech. Whatever the ins and outs –…
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Whistling in the Wind
A Chinese Doctor gets t-boned for speaking out about the coronavirus, and everyone is up in arms. I could understand it if he’d been dumped on for peddling powdered rhino dick, but from his perspective he was on a determined course to adhere to the Hippocratic oath. Sadly, he has shuffled off his mortal coil,…
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Hmmm…What Does This Button Do..?
A jet being blown out of the sky by a missile. A few hundred passengers instantaneously fragmented. You probably wondered whether the recent tragedy in the skies above Iran was an accident or deliberate. Well it turns out that the act of firing was deliberate but the assessment of the situation prior to the press…
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Not Waving but Drowning
I recently stumbled back onto an old classic that genuinely perked me up. Old – well it’s now been 50 years since publication; and a classic, because even after the extended passage of time, it remains bang on the money. The Peter Principle by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull. In it, they advance that…
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A Dogma is for Life…
Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat. And there’re only one goose in the charlatan realm, and that’s the charlatan goose. But it’s the one time of year when charitable sentiment is front and centre, and all the reprobates have to don their metaphorical Santa suits and indulge in a little goodwill to…
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