Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:12:11 +0100 From: Sleeker GT Phwoar <carl.robsonnospamcing-czechs.com> Subject: Re: I'm very tempted.
In article <42D78D27.FA37FB1Dnospamail.com>, rabbitsfriendsandrelationsnospamail.com says... > Have you heard of the term 'oily rag syndrome' ? Professional Engineers in > the UK are only too well aware of it. I don't know your line of work but it > goes like this..... He is in the same line of work as me. > The 'suits' like to present themselves as being vital to a company despite > being simply an overhead and often worse than useless. You mean like the sales drones here with "We pay your wages". Then we explain, "without us, you wouldn't have anything to sell. And it has good quality, you aren't that great a salesman" > Part of their plan to achieve dominance involves denigrating anyone who > actually has to do real work with their hands ! Very true. > Of course they had a great boost in the 80s when Margaret Thatcher's > government decreed that the UK could exist purely on a service economy and > simply lost interest in manufacturing. I'll leave you to draw your own > conclusions. Yep, that is why my employers are gradually buying all the offices and units of a formerly mixed use industrial park, for adding office facilities, and server hosting centres, has trebled it's sales workforce in 6 months, but taken on 2 extra programmers in 2 years. -- Carl Robson Car PC Build starts again. http://smallr.com/rz Homepage: http://www.bouncing-czechs.com
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