Mass redundancies

[original PM]

For me this is a result of the empire building being alluded to in another thread. The cycle seems to go something like this

1) New exec/senior manager gets position. Has a large budget and so does some stuff with it.
2) Each year exec's budget gets cut and so slowly head count has to fall ( I never understand why people think that year on year more can be achieved with less money but hey!)
3) After 4-5 years exec fails to meet budget and gets moved on
4) New person comes in needs to make impact so major redundacies.
5) Rinse n repeat

[DimPrawn]

This has been going on since the 80s, when it became the case in the Anglo-Saxon economies that cutting headcount improved your market price since it showed management being "efficient".
Meanwhile in more successful economies like Germany, cutting headcount was seen as a failure, since it showed you weren't gowing and/or planning for the future,

End result: Britain bankrupt, Germany rich.

Weren't you the one saying a while back German economy will be fooked in a downturn as it's all based on manufacturing and Britain would boom as it's all based around the financial services industry which is indestructible?



I love reading your idiotic (and conflicting) viewpoints.

[sasguru]

Weren't you the one saying a while back German economy will be fooked in a downturn as it's all based on manufacturing and Britain would boom as it's all based around the financial services industry which is indestructible?



I love reading your idiotic (and conflicting) viewpoints.

And I love your simplistic black and white interpretation.
Please point me to the post where I said the "financial industry was indestructible", you utter, utter moron.
Jeez, sometimes I wonder what it must be like to be so cognitively impaired, but even my fecund imagination is unequal to the task.

[DimPrawn]

Is "moron" betterer or worser than "cretin"?

We should be told.

There's a hierarchy of ever lower levels of intelligence

Idiot
Moron
Cretin
Proggy

[eek]

There's a hierarchy of ever lower levels of intelligence

Idiot
Moron
Cretin
Proggy
Sas

Ftfy hth

[original PM]

There's a hierarchy of ever lower levels of intelligence

Idiot
Moron
Cretin
Proggy
Sas
Eek

ftfy - this could go on!

[eek]

There's a hierarchy of ever lower levels of intelligence

Idiot
Moron
Cretin
Eek
Proggy
Original pm
Sas

So it could

[Mich the Tester]

This has been going on since the 80s, when it became the case in the Anglo-Saxon economies that cutting headcount improved your market price since it showed management being "efficient".
Meanwhile in more successful economies like Germany, cutting headcount was seen as a failure, since it showed you weren't gowing and/or planning for the future,

End result: Britain bankrupt, Germany rich.

I heard recently from a guy I worked with on a project for a huge American company making medical devices; the project delivered on time, almost within budget and that company is now making hundreds of millions out of the product we built, selling it to hospitals all over the world. The team has been broken up, all of the contractors hve gone and all the permies have been made redundant and the office has been closed. A German company would have built on the experience to gain further market dominance, but unskilled 'Anglo Saxon' managermen close it down because they can reduce some cost on a spreadsheet.

[original PM]

So it could

lol still above sas!

[MyUserName]

Surely this should go:

Idiot
Moron
Cretin
Some of the smarter types of house bricks
Eek
Proggy
Original pm
Sas