Wake up, lets go for a team building game, improve our sales efforts,search for a new job or are you happy wasting your time at this sick company because you are a parasite. That is it my colleagues- we are parasites we milk the company and when it falls sick we sometimes ride it until it dies and then claim we got laid off.

I think someone said it better if you were so good why did you not set up your own company!!!

I have to say, your use of foul language made it hard for me to appreciate fully what you had to say here. I guess it seems normal to you to use these words? It’s a real turn-off.

The sad reality is that only 20% of managers in the UK are qualified (www.managers.org.uk). How would people think about that statistic if it was about their GP’s or hospital consultant? I don’t suppose they would be too happy. If that situation was true people might refer to doctors in derogatory terms.

Your observations are correct about an anomalous dysfunctional situation in the UK, where so-called managers are by and large plonkers who end up doing administration and ballsing it up. So that leaves people with a nasty impression about what management is about.

What’s going on in Health Services for example is that you have people being being called managers who couldn’t distinguish an arse from an elbow – yet they want to direct highly skilled and trained staff what to do. Now isn’t that a recipe for balls up and a waste of taxpayer’s money.

When you meet the odd real and qualified manager it is quite a different experience. I’m not defending anyone here. I just wanted to add a certain context to your accurate observations.

Regards

Russell

I resigned from a job due to bullying and a schoolground environment.

Human remains said I was free to apply for jobs across the organisation – a well-known newspaper group – and sent me job alerts every two weeks (well, I often had to chase these up).

I applied for jobs, but heard nothing. I sent an email from a work email and, yes, heard back… It materialised that HR was intercepting emails from my home address.

The HR queen claimed she’d only been sending the job alerts as a goodwill gesture, clearly unaware of what a goodwill gesture is.

She should work for Farepak: her goodwill gesture would be supermarket vouchers which no supermarkets acccepted.

And she was negative by the very fact she had nothing positive in mind when sending me these job alerts.

I decided to take civil action. But as the county court claimed it had not received my application, I gave up. What’s the chance of justice if the courts can’t even handle their post…

Recently I applied for an intellectual property (IP law) position at Google. I asked whether I could work on a job share basis, because of my disability. Of course I did not receieve a personal reply, just a generic computerised “you have not been successful”.

If you look on Google’s own website, you’ll discover it is advertising for a disproportionate amount of HR staff. No mention is made of people with disabilities and whether it operates the two ticks scheme. Well, that’s HR. Two bollocks scheme, perhaps.