Season ticket question

[bobo the clown]

That's because HR is staffed entirely by clowns

HR isn't really a job, though, is it? It's just pissing and whining at other people who have jobs or want jobs...

If only it was just that. HR is just mainly folk coming up with new schemes to try out to justify the fact they're getting paid for no-one's quite sure what.

.... & while we still get that pay, who are the clowns then !!

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Popped to see the head of HR yesterday but she was in Barbados. Made an appointment to see one of her staff today "but it'll have to be in the morning: in the afternoon I'm going to Barbados too."

Just saying.

(For the record, I've just been doing a round of recruitment for middle-management and I barely glanced at the candidates' education. In our world, experience and proven ability trumps academic certification, especially in irrelevant fields - although for balance I should point out that some of the journalistic qualifications provide excellent opportunities for proving yourself.)

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

See I'm not convinced declines in education are it, though it's the "obvious answer".

20 years ago there were far more people working in manufacturing, and far fewer people in services. As the economy has changed, the group of kids who would have been turning up at the factory gates the Monday after their last Friday are now getting office jobs, and so of course overall it looks like the intelligence of those turning up for interviews is not as high.

Whilst I don't entirely disagree, I'm not really talking intelligence here. Just basic skills that most kids should be leaving school with. I was one of those kids, with mediocre exam results that started at the bottom, but I at least left school with the basics. I just don't see those same basics in many of the kids today, even the ones armed with fancy exam results and degrees.

I'd be interested in what LE and any other teachers think. I don't see it as a teachers problem, more a case of what teachers are expected to do with them.

[thebish]

aye - my eldest left uni with a decent industry-accredited degree in computer games programming - yet 90-odd percent of the available jobs for games programmers were wanting BOTH degree (from accredited uni) AND a portfolio of games industry experience...

[bobo the clown]

And don't get me started on HR! In my previous two jobs the useless fecks have lost my contract twice, my resignation paperwork, my P45, and my pension paperwork. I apologise if anyone here, or their significant others, works in HR but they are generally bleedin' useless in my experience!

.... fck-off with your apology. See me tomorrow. You have the right to be accompanied by your trade union representative or colleague, who will watch agog as I dismiss you on the grounds of not liking your sock colour choice.

You will have the right to an appeal, which must be submitted in writing within one week. In this you should state the grounds for your appeal as we all like a laugh.

[thebish]

And don't get me started on HR! In my previous two jobs the useless fecks have lost my contract twice, my resignation paperwork, my P45, and my pension paperwork. I apologise if anyone here, or their significant others, works in HR but they are generally bleedin' useless in my experience!

.... fck-off with your apology. See me tomorrow. You have the right to be accompanied by your trade union representative or colleague, who will watch agog as I dismiss you on the grounds of not liking your sock colour choice.

You will have the right to an appeal, which must be submitted in writing within one week. In this you should state the grounds for your appeal as we all like a laugh.

careful, throwaway - Bobo will be sitting you down for a day's diversity training any moment....

[Enoch]

And don't get me started on HR!