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Thursday, December 03, 2009

Shredder

As Starfleet prepares to shred lose many of its more experienced designers and architects due to its treachery over pensions, the Gorse Fox has spent much of today looking at the new crop. These individuals need to be nurtured, encouraged, guided and seeded into the opportunities that help them grow their experience. It's been good hearing about these rising stars... but the Gorse Fox is concerned that we have a few rocky months ahead.

You may wonder if the Gorse Fox is one of those about to jump ship. Well, the answer is no. There's still too many problems that he wants to go out and solve, and he still wakes up every morning relishing the challenges the day will bring.

3 comments:

The Gray Monk said...

The GF is one of the lucky ones obviously. The infestation of Filing Clerks promoted to Manager asn't affected Star Fleet to quite the extent it has hit everyone else yet.

Blognor Regis said...

he still wakes up every morning relishing the challenges the day will bring.

That was either a contractual obligation or you've been shot up the arse with a rainbow. Hoping it's the latter.

Noisy said...

Late in responding, I know, but had a quarterly call for the group I'm attached to, and the estimate is that 10% of the group are taking the option to leave. That will decimate (literally - the true meaning) our group, and make it really hard for us to cover all the work that we have. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. I remember attending a lunch and learn a few years back showing that the trend was to have higher grade staff that can be sold for bunches of dosh leading hordes of GD resources. That strategic plan for the long term seems to have been dropped for short-term tactical expediency. One shakes ones head.