Reply to: You could sack 25% of people in most large companies with no ill effect

[BlightyBoy]

Mind you..

I also worked at a different client co. where one of the contractors spent most of his day on the crapper reading novels (and still booking the time!).

[BlightyBoy]

IME the margins are more like 20% of the staff doing 80% of the work.

Not too sure about the 50% in the middle.

Once worked at a client co. where one of the permies just e-mailed all day and wrote rules for Outlook to organise his folders so that he would have a good portfolio of excuses/evidence that it wasn't his fault the project got f*cked up.

[sasguru]

Thanks for volunteering sasguru. Please collect your black plastic binliner on the wait out. Security, make sure he heads straight for the door!

Hello loser. Back again?

[SantaClaus]

That's my conclusion after 20 years of working. There is not much difference in productivity between the worst 25% of a blue-chip company and the worst public sector employees.
It kind of works like this at every large company I have worked for both as a contractor and permie:

25% - Efficent and able (effectively carrying the rest)
50% - Marginally useful
25% - Complete waste of space

Problem is management cannot always see who belongs to which group as some of the useless ones have good political skills (and no other).

Thanks for volunteering sasguru. Please collect your black plastic binliner on the wait out. Security, make sure he heads straight for the door!

[Peoplesoft bloke]

So true !! I noticed on the news that they are now recruiting masses of social workers from outside the EU on 42K a year because there are not the applicants available in the UK.

I'd ask for a link to that story, but your pal Doggy will come along and say it's against the rules.

£42k you say?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

..... In short organisations need slackers.

Did someone call?

[AtW]

That's my conclusion after 20 years of working.

Did you count last few years of your posting on CUK as working years?

[dinker]

Well someone might be crap but if they`re good at politics they will never be sacked.

[sasguru]

So true !! I noticed on the news that they are now recruiting masses of social workers from outside the EU on 42K a year because there are not the applicants available in the UK.

Someone save me from this imbecile.

Listen Cyberdunce, why not start your own effing thread and you can post bollux there to your hearts content?

Alternatively there's a forum for people of your pit-bottom intellectual level - its called BBC - Have your say.

[sasguru]

So true !! I noticed on the news that they are now recruiting masses of social workers from outside the EU on 42K a year because there are not the applicants available in the UK.

Double posted - see below

[TimberWolf]

You could sack 25% of people in most large companies with no ill effect

The owners of the company might complain though. Especially as I don't work there.

How could this be done? Well. Turn up at reception and before they start asking awkward about what you are doing there mount a surprise attack and sack security and receptionists, and anyone else loitering around, so that's the enemies front line broken. A very good start. Then instigate a pincer movement on the canteen and HR departments - they won't be expecting that. Excellent work. After a quick cull of management (top floors) your are now free to dismiss whom you please. There is nothing to stop you now, so why stop at 25% while you are on a roll?

[Cyberman]

Join the public sector gravy train
tut tut..

So true !! I noticed on the news that they are now recruiting masses of social workers from outside the EU on 42K a year because there are not the applicants available in the UK.

[swamp]

Join the public sector gravy train
tut tut..

WHS!

[Andy2]

Christ on a bike! Where can I get one of those jobs? I might even go permie for some of that.

Join the public sector gravy train
tut tut..

[Moscow Mule]

IME there are often many people who are quite good but do next to nothing because they are not given much to do.

Christ on a bike! Where can I get one of those jobs? I might even go permie for some of that.