So - the work thing..

The other day I fell into a trap of my own making. I wrote a blog moaning about how everyone in the media and online and in life were leaping on the World Cup bandwagon and shoehorning football into their product to cash in on the ‘festival fever feeling’ being generated by the sporting event in Russia. By writing and posting that blog I MYSELF was of course doing exactly the thing I was accusing others of. The way to fight the system was to simply ignore it and write about something else entirely; but I didn’t, so I’m no better than those I was having a go at.

I mention that because I’m about to do another tired, forced, indulgent let’s-connect-this-to-the-World-Cup-somehow move. I’m not proud of it, but I’m doing it, so let’s just get on with it and get it over with:

A lot of the problems with the teams who have already lost matches, I have been informed, is that the managers have no ‘Plan B’…. and that would seem to sum up the people higher up in the company I work for too.

There – I’ve done it – I can get on with making my original point now.

This whole ‘person has been appointed but then decided not to accept’ situation has become a bit of a fiasco. It’s obvious they wanted him from the start, even before the bloody job was first mentioned to anybody, and that they felt assured he would take it. It’s obvious because him saying ‘no’ seems to have taken the wheels off the entire venture and left the senior management in charge of the changes clueless as to what to do next.

Some of these people are earning six figures annually, for Christ’s sake.

They did send a panicky e-mail out to those of us who had originally applied for the position to ask if we’d put our names forward again, to which each of us independently and hurriedly said ‘No, thank you.’ I can’t speak for others, but my personal view is that if you’ve passed me over once, probably without even giving me serious consideration because you already know who you’re hiring, then why the Hell would I want to make the effort again?

RC 21-6-18