Mind The Gap
Many of you would heard the story about a lady with the wonderful speaking voice who was sacked by London Underground. OK, perhaps she was unwise to "have a dig" but to sack her?
Smacks of the same sort of management thinking I wrote about a few weeks ago.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Facebook Ban (2)
Flipchart Fairytales has posted a beautiful post about the subject I raised last week.Did you hear about this? Kent County Council have banned their *32000 employees from using the social utility Facebook.
Employers are great at disciplining staff aren't they? If they spent as much time getting people to "buy-in" to the culture (I know it isn't easy in the public sector) of their organization, valued them more their staff just might do a better and more committed job. Perhaps then they wouldn't feel the need to spend time at Facebook or going outside for a fag.
This sort of thing is so typical of British management. Minimalist, narrow-minded, old-fashioned and unnecessary.
2 comments:
Trying to control who views what on an organisations computer can have unusual side affects, Chatham House School in Ramsgate decided to use a program to stop pupils going on unsuitable websites. Unfortunately as Chatham contains the word chat pupils were prevented from going on the school website to use the learning facilities there.
A lawyer friend of mine had a similar problem with his firm. The word "explicit" was deemed as unacceptable by those in the I.T. department.
"Explicit" is a necessary word in legalese.
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