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I think any middle management job would be the same though, it's the
function of middle management to act as a lossy shit conduit.

 

You don't work for all that large an organisation, IIRC. So, I'd bet
it's small, managable lumps of shit, rather than a continuous flow of
corporate poop.

 

It's rife in the Rover groups.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Wicked Uncle Nigel belched forth and ejected the
following:

Ah right.

Just as I thought.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Darren Robinson belched forth and ejected the
following:

There you go then. You didn't mention you were skint so off you go..

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Alison Hopkins belched forth and ejected the
following:

Only half?

Come on.. If you weren't fucked before you better get out before it gets
you <g>

 

IME they're cunts that, mostly, cause the shit.

 

Are you subconsciously writing your CV? Maybe something's trying to tell
you all is not well.

 

Bollocks. It is entirely possible to create an environment where
managers' roles, be they lower, middle or senior, are primarily to
solve problems and get work done. It's down partly to corporate
culture and partially to selecting the individuals for the task.

I say this from my position in a very large[1] organisation as a
junior manager looking up at my bosses and from Jude's position as a
senior manager dealing with her peers and subordinates. Without
exception, the focus is on the job and the people, not on propogating
corporate bullshit.

I guess the main thing is to choose to work in an organisation where
there just isn't 'shit' going on in the first place. One of the
reasons why, after 20 years of EKS, I decided for the first time that
I actually wanted to settle down and be part of something.


[1] 68000 employees globally, as I've just discovered.

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Right on, brother. Drugs are good, do drugs, mmkay?

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It's certainly a mark of the quality of our general practice system.
Colds, flu, mental illness...is there anything they can't cure?

 

You?

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Hey, if I'm ill I don't wanna be cured!

PFCT;

 

"look Ma - top of the world!"

 

"I know my place".


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I'm a senior manager within the department, but a middle manager in
the overall org. I deal with shit from above, below, and because of on
aspect of my job function ("business relationship management") from
people at the same level as myself in 3-4 different business units.

I would not presume to tell you that you are doing things wrongly, but
I would say that I don't "absorb" the shit - it's a trite management
saying, but I do "treat problems as opportunities", not just shit to
be absorbed.

 

What medical training have you had? Amateur gynaecology doesn't count.

 

heh. There's nothing like working for the French to let you know the
meaning of the word "hierarchy".

 

Look, have a go anyway - after all, either kill or cure will relieve
us.

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You're doing that Champ/Ace 4eva thing again. In light of recent events
it's a little too Brokeback Mountain for my liking.