Re: Admirable
Having worked/attended a civil service job in the past, I'm not really surprised by any of this.
But then there was always the number 1 rule of the civil service.. if someone was bad at his job, promote him out of the way.
Eg deputy engineering manager who did'nt know one end of a file from the other.. well lets make up a post of engineering liason officer (basically he gets the call from the sciencey groups, then passed the request on to the engineering shop) and promote him to that.
Science gets to talk to us engineers "can you build it?" and engineering talks to science "yes we can , will take 2 days* " without useless deputy going on about budgets and admin and flapping his arse in the way all the time.
Boris
* we used "wrath of Khan time" so that job took us 2 hrs giving us 1.75 days of tea drinking time :)
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