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  • Freamon
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Just yesterday I read about HMG's bizarre "You Be The Judge" site (N.B.: Flash required to witness the fail in all its refulgent splendour). This nonsense cost the Ministry of Justice (a thing I thought one only found in third world dictatorships) £56,403.60 ex VAT.
    This sort of thing is the reason the potholes on our roads aren't getting filled in!!!

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  • Zippy
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Just yesterday I read about HMG's bizarre "You Be The Judge" site (N.B.: Flash required to witness the fail in all its refulgent splendour). This nonsense cost the Ministry of Justice (a thing I thought one only found in third world dictatorships) £56,403.60 ex VAT. The MeejaLaw site, who revealed this information after an FoI request, also quoted the MoJ's proud boast of how they had kept the costs down:
    Design, coding and technical build of the interactive guide was carried out by “internal web resources who were simultaneously working on other activities”.
    (my emphasis)

    Not "our web developers" nor "our own staff" nor "our employees" but "internal web resources". I bet they feel really appreciated by their employer when they're made to juggle multiple projects and then see themselves described in such terms
    That is one godawful web site. WTF are you supposed to do with it?

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  • MarillionFan
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    I'm crap at painting - not just pictures, but easy stuff like doors and such



    Indeed

    Just yesterday I read about HMG's bizarre "You Be The Judge" site (N.B.: Flash required to witness the fail in all its refulgent splendour). This nonsense cost the Ministry of Justice (a thing I thought one only found in third world dictatorships) £56,403.60 ex VAT. The MeejaLaw site, who revealed this information after an FoI request, also quoted the MoJ's proud boast of how they had kept the costs down:


    You be the Judge. Hardly representitive was it. They were all middle classed white people on the videos.

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
    FFS, we're human. We can hunt, we can nurture. We can kill, we can heal. We can be cruel, we can rescue. We can invent, create, build and destroy. We can all cook, clean, think, communicate, reproduce, travel, imagine, sit, stand, paint, sing, laugh, cry.
    I'm crap at painting - not just pictures, but easy stuff like doors and such

    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
    While we're on the subject (approximately), let me just rant about how offensive I consider the term 'Human Resources'.
    Indeed

    Just yesterday I read about HMG's bizarre "You Be The Judge" site (N.B.: Flash required to witness the fail in all its refulgent splendour). This nonsense cost the Ministry of Justice (a thing I thought one only found in third world dictatorships) £56,403.60 ex VAT. The MeejaLaw site, who revealed this information after an FoI request, also quoted the MoJ's proud boast of how they had kept the costs down:
    Design, coding and technical build of the interactive guide was carried out by “internal web resources who were simultaneously working on other activities”.
    (my emphasis)

    Not "our web developers" nor "our own staff" nor "our employees" but "internal web resources". I bet they feel really appreciated by their employer when they're made to juggle multiple projects and then see themselves described in such terms

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  • fckvwls
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    Administrator

    Have to say the detailed explanation of the personality type was pretty accurate.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
    While we're on the subject (approximately), let me just rant about how offensive I consider the term 'Human Resources'. I am not a human resource. I am a human being.
    Would you rather they called it the "Everybody's special" department?

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  • AtW
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    CUK moderator.

    I'd bring order to this place even if I have to ban everyone on here!

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  • RichardCranium
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    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    I once asked a project manager if he called his kids resources.

    "Resource 3, you are on dishes tonight, resource 1, you are on drying"

    The way he spoke it was quite possible.
    Is that why so many on here refer to their sprogs as DS1, DD2 etc?

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  • Clare@InTouch
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    I got:

    ISTJ "Trustee" These are dependable pillars of strength. They often try to reform their mates and other people. They make good bank examiners, auditors, accountants, and phys. ed. teachers, and boy or girl scouts! 6% of the total population.


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  • Platypus
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    Originally posted by Freamon View Post
    Typical reaction from an ISxJ.
    I think I walked into that

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  • Freamon
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    Originally posted by Platypus View Post
    I've done it twice now, as some of my answers were "well, sometimes this, sometimes that"

    Both times, I didn't much recognise the personality descriptions which resulted

    First was ISFJ, second was ISTJ, so I guess the Thinker/Feeler part of me depends on the situation

    I agree with RC, what bollix
    Typical reaction from an ISxJ.

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  • minestrone
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    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
    While we're on the subject (approximately), let me just rant about how offensive I consider the term 'Human Resources'. I am not a human resource. I am a human being. 'Human Resources' suggest to me a dark, dank cellar in the Hadean depths of the corporation where arms, legs, torsos, heads (empty) and other assorted organs are sorted, stamped, filed and archived for future exploitation by the disturbed megalomaniacs of the board room, or worse still, middle management, who can then mark the usage of organs and limbs against a spreadsheet, producing red and green cells indicating conformity to some vacuous 'Key Process Indicator' and demonstrating opportunities for such simple cost savings as cutting off employees' legs to reduce worktime breaks and calorie usage.

    Yuck.
    I once asked a project manager if he called his kids resources.

    "Resource 3, you are on dishes tonight, resource 1, you are on drying"

    The way he spoke it was quite possible.

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  • Bunk
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    Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
    all HR departments are filled with identi-kit, skinny, fake-blonde, unskilled, air-heads
    Thank god for that. If I had to rely on IT totty I'd go mental.

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  • Platypus
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    I've done it twice now, as some of my answers were "well, sometimes this, sometimes that"

    Both times, I didn't much recognise the personality descriptions which resulted

    First was ISFJ, second was ISTJ, so I guess the Thinker/Feeler part of me depends on the situation

    I agree with RC, what bollix

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  • MarillionFan
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    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
    While we're on the subject (approximately), let me just rant about how offensive I consider the term 'Human Resources'. I am not a human resource. I am a human being. 'Human Resources' suggest to me a dark, dank cellar in the Hadean depths of the corporation where arms, legs, torsos, heads (empty) and other assorted organs are sorted, stamped, filed and archived for future exploitation by the disturbed megalomaniacs of the board room, or worse still, middle management, who can then mark the usage of organs and limbs against a spreadsheet, producing red and green cells indicating conformity to some vacuous 'Key Process Indicator' and demonstrating opportunities for such simple cost savings as cutting off employees' legs to reduce worktime breaks and calorie usage.

    Yuck.


    Step away from the coffee machine. Put the caffeine down and step away from the coffee machine.

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