Stupider and stupider

So, apparently my last post a month ago didn't quite capture the depths of stupidity I am dealing with on a regular basis - if you visualise my part of local government as the former Soviet Union, I am about to get shipped off to the gulag for re-education. ("And you might even enjoy it!" chirped my boss, to which my response was "I think that's asking a little much"). When even my fellow managers are saying "Resistance is futile" then you know you're not alone in thinking that...

Yes, apparently my previous unsullied record of 21 years in this line of work and almost 3 in this current post avails me nothing when I don't get as much as physically possible and then some out of not very much at all. In other words, I am crap at ticking boxes and excel at getting the best out of people except that my definition of 'the best' isn't 'wringing every last drop of work and then some' so I am therefore a Bad Manager. That's basically what it's about, though it's being couched as being infinitely more esoteric than that.

Anyway, I shall do my time though I'm not sure what I'm going to actually be doing (not much by initial accounts which seems a bit daft but if they want to carry on paying for my trip to Sri Lanka who am I to complain?), amount yet to be finalised (it started off as "three months minimum" and then became "but it could be less than that" - this word 'minimum' it does not mean what you seem to think it means...) and then start looking for jobs elsewhere in 2013. This rampant asshattery shall not stand!

Putting my current shit into perspective...

It's quite possible that for folks outside the UK, the word 'Hillsborough' has no meaning at all, at least unless you're a far-flung Liverpool fan like the lovely blktauna. Today we finally had confirmation of what we believed all along- that lives could have been saved, that lies were told, that justice still needs to be done.



Margaret Aspinall, chairwoman of the Hillsborough Families Support Group, whose son James was one of those who died: "This is what the families and the fans have been fighting for 23 years. Without the truth, you cannot grieve and where there is deceit, you get no justice."

[For those who don't know, the best article I've seen in a long time on the events of the day - it makes harrowing reading]