Tidewaiter2
Well-Known Member
We spoke to an NCW Solent member at SIBS on Saturday, Darryl Sinclair yclept, an Orcadian who went to sea as a MN boy Cadet (remember when we had them and an MN?)
Now I wouldn't object to him watching my back via Ch65, rather than the Fareham Watch on Sunday, who were taking absolute ages to respond laboriously to the various Solent IRBs and LB's calling in, unlike the swift, professional responses prior to the move to Fareham.
Another triumph for 'operational' (Really speedy, cost cutting driven) changes led by parachuted in, "Transferrable Competantcies" equipped Senior Civil Service dynamic thrusters, who will be long gone to their next CV enhancing c@@kup by the time the inevitable fatal error chain leads the PAC to go looking for blood, let alone the relatives and "meja".
Having lived through one or two, you could see the signs for the HMCG re-org from the start. Don't get me wrong, I lived with constant change in my working environment for 36.5 years, it's how you manage those changes that counts-just holding a meeting and saying " It is done, oh King" doesn't cut the mustard-
you have to know what you're doing, and take the workforce with you-from a red biro & a black biro once a year, right through green computer screens( remember them??) to today's all singing, all dancing 'layabouts charter' laptops, with internet access for all.
(and don't even get me on the absolute folly of leaving the card games etc on consoles which staff are supposed to be doing work on- a Managers nightmare:disgust:, particularly with the calibre available under 40 y.o. inside the M25 recruited via a HR dept who don't have to lead/work with them every day
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Now I wouldn't object to him watching my back via Ch65, rather than the Fareham Watch on Sunday, who were taking absolute ages to respond laboriously to the various Solent IRBs and LB's calling in, unlike the swift, professional responses prior to the move to Fareham.
Another triumph for 'operational' (Really speedy, cost cutting driven) changes led by parachuted in, "Transferrable Competantcies" equipped Senior Civil Service dynamic thrusters, who will be long gone to their next CV enhancing c@@kup by the time the inevitable fatal error chain leads the PAC to go looking for blood, let alone the relatives and "meja".
Having lived through one or two, you could see the signs for the HMCG re-org from the start. Don't get me wrong, I lived with constant change in my working environment for 36.5 years, it's how you manage those changes that counts-just holding a meeting and saying " It is done, oh King" doesn't cut the mustard-
you have to know what you're doing, and take the workforce with you-from a red biro & a black biro once a year, right through green computer screens( remember them??) to today's all singing, all dancing 'layabouts charter' laptops, with internet access for all.
(and don't even get me on the absolute folly of leaving the card games etc on consoles which staff are supposed to be doing work on- a Managers nightmare:disgust:, particularly with the calibre available under 40 y.o. inside the M25 recruited via a HR dept who don't have to lead/work with them every day
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