| Pete Dashwood 2007-03-18, 9:55 pm |
| It is a beautiful fine day here and I'm off to the beach.
I found this post particularly annoying and some of this annoyance is
reflected in the response.
I make no apology for this; while everyone has a right to their own
attitudes and personality, constant negativity and dismissal of any
suggestion that might actually try to improve things (without any attempt to
suggest an alternative) is just tiresome.
Now read on... :-)
<docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:etki9n$35s$1@reader2.panix.com...
> In article <563innF27dju8U1@mid.individual.net>,
> Pete Dashwood <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>
> Ahhhhh, a *fine* managerial 'all ya gotta do is' to a situation which is
> found in innumerable businesses across a couple of continents.
And a workable solution. I know, because I have done it. Certainly it takes
time and can't be put in place during the lifetime of a single project, but
it CAN be done. And it is worth doing.
Funny, I didn't see any suggestions from yourself as to how this problem
might be addressed, yet you dismiss mine as an "All ya gotta do is..."
solution.
Any fool can find fault. It takes a wise man to find fault wisely.
Perhaps you prefer to have an "insoluble problem" so you can whinge about it
here?
> Mr
> Dashwood, what you posit above seems to ask that folks actually know how
> to, want to and are allowed to Do Their Jobs; this positing would appear
> to violate Rule Number Zero, 'Nobody Wants To Do Any Work'.
My experience has been that the above Rule Number Zero is hogwash.
There are SOME people who don't want to do any work; fortunately, they are a
minority. The majority are very happy to do work, PROVIDED they feel it is
worth doing and they can derive satisfaction from doing it.
Time and again, motivated teams of people produce results that are
outstanding and far exceed expectations.
But usually these are not people who have allowed their past failures to
create cynicism that has gnawed away their enthusiasm until there is only
sullen negativity remaining.
>
> Now, about that cat that needs belling...
Haven't you heard? His personality has undergone a sea change. He and the
mice play happily together. The cat food he's on has no E numbers...
>
>
> I don't understand, Mr Dashwood... you were responsible for the project,
> how is it that you skipped over those 'people with in depth 'solution'
> experience?
I explained that in the original post. Read it again if you are really
interested and let me know what part of "time" and "inclination" to
interview hundreds of applicants, you don't understand. The people I did get
were very suitable, but I accept that there were some we probably misssed
because of bad pimp filters.
>
> [snip]
>
>
> After having been a consultant/contractor/hired gun for a few decades now,
> Mr Dashwood, I would say that it is De Rerum Natura for the business
> world; if 'the way things are' is frightening then gravity should be
> *most* fearsome... it makes things fall down, y'know?
>
Up.. Down... everything is relative...
(A stupid response to a stupid statement. Whilst, two wrongs certainly don't
make a right, it made me feel better.)
>
> Mr Dashwood, I do not know if this is the case... but if it is it might be
> interesting to see how much of this 'recruiting directly from Job
> Placement websites' is fitted with a front-end that first and foremost...
>
> ... scans the resumes that have been marked 'of interest' for the right
> acronyms.
>
Yes, you're probably right. Might as well give up and not try to work at
all...
Pretty pointless really isn't it?
Of course you can always do a Wowbagger (the indefinitely extended - See
Hitchiker's guide to the Galaxy) and stay on the job you have. Then there
is no need to worry about nasty pimps and acronyms on CVs, and there is
little chance of actually adding any acronyms to your CV anyway, so everyone
is happy. Best of all, you can sit on the sidelines and pontificate on how
pointless the whole exercise is and how superior you are for not being part
of it.
Works for some, I guess.
Pete.
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