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Let your next career move come to you.

*Sighs*

This is just a winge... I can't do anything about this.

So I'm about to start a "Hostile Project"... one where the team sort of know they aren't going to like the output.  There is one glaring output which is not part of my role, but the information I gather will allow others to make logical decisions.

We had the steering committee start up call today with the Project Sponsor trying to kill the Project and failing (other steering committee members are our Op Comm)... the brief was confidential.

I've just been into the folder and found that the General Manager sent the brief to Junior Staff and they have commented on it and saved their comments in the folder.  The comments are as I'd expect, it's a Hostile Project.... but it's ridiculous that it is so "them and us" already that he's done this.

No, I'm not going to tell anyone or raise it.  It's my job to deal with these things and not run off to Mummy every time there is a problem... not a good start though...

 

Wonderful jargon.  Totally incomprehensible.  

How does any business burdened with this bullshit manage to get anything done or take any decisions ? 

Decoding as best I can, are you trying to say you had a meeting to begin some pompous corporate process to sack a lot of people and some of them took it badly ?  

In France, you can get mobbed and have your clothes torn off at the workplace for that kind of thing.  

I think the French attitude is healthy.  You can't expect to be liked while you do this kind of thing.  Best invest in some body armour.  

France's labour laws are totally bizarre.  I acted for an insolvency practitioner who had to go into the French branch of an English incorporated company.  He was told that he:

 

- Couldn't sack anyone;

- Couldn't tell anyone to stop work and/or go home;

- Couldn't talk to the employees in a publicly called meeting,

 

and that if he did he was open to civil and criminal liability under French law.  All completely fooking bonkers for a company which was shit bust and needed to reduce overheads as a matter of urgency.

 

 

 

I’d agree that the OP was some of the finest management-speak bollix that I’ve heard for a good few years.

He appears to revel in his own cringeworthy  self-importance.

Is he a follower of the David Brent School?

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