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Laura F Spira
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:33 pm
Post subject: Managementspeak |
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A message received this morning invites me to a breakfast seminar with
the title "Surfing the agequake". Not, as I first thought, an
introduction to an Inuit version of the Web but a discussion of issues
relating to the aging population.
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Laura
(emulate St. George for email)
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Jess Askin
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:02 pm
Post subject: Re: Managementspeak |
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"Laura F Spira" <laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4191F855.2000809@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk...
| Quote: | A message received this morning invites me to a breakfast seminar with
the title "Surfing the agequake". Not, as I first thought, an
introduction to an Inuit version of the Web but a discussion of issues
relating to the aging population.
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A mixed metaphor if ever there was one. |
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Wood Avens
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 2:06 pm
Post subject: Re: Managementspeak |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:15:33 +0000, Laura F Spira
<laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | A message received this morning invites me to a breakfast seminar with
the title "Surfing the agequake". Not, as I first thought, an
introduction to an Inuit version of the Web but a discussion of issues
relating to the aging population.
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And are you intending to go to it? As a fully-paid-up member of the
population concerned, I'd welcome any tips on surfing.
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Katy Jennison
spamtrap: remove the first two letters after the @
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Laura F Spira
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 2:07 pm
Post subject: Re: Managementspeak |
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Wood Avens wrote:
| Quote: | On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:15:33 +0000, Laura F Spira
laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
A message received this morning invites me to a breakfast seminar with
the title "Surfing the agequake". Not, as I first thought, an
introduction to an Inuit version of the Web but a discussion of issues
relating to the aging population.
And are you intending to go to it? As a fully-paid-up member of the
population concerned, I'd welcome any tips on surfing.
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No, I'm not. I think the idea is that some sort of consultant will offer
advice to businesses on employing the aged, rather than assisting the
aged themselves.
On the giving of business advice, I see that today's Guardian letters
page carries a letter offering advice to Stuart Rose on turning round
M&S. The letter is from a man who used to run Sainsburys. I wonder how
many will spot that delicious irony?
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Laura
(emulate St. George for email) |
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Steve Hayes
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:05 pm
Post subject: Re: Managementspeak |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:15:33 +0000, Laura F Spira
<laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | A message received this morning invites me to a breakfast seminar with
the title "Surfing the agequake". Not, as I first thought, an
introduction to an Inuit version of the Web but a discussion of issues
relating to the aging population.
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I heard a good one on the radio this morning:
"This initiative takes place every year on an anuual basis as a
superinitiative."
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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Arcadian Rises
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:06 pm
Post subject: Re: Managementspeak |
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| Quote: | From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com (Steve Hayes)
I heard a good one on the radio this morning:
"This initiative takes place every year on an anuual basis as a
superinitiative."
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Something is missing in that sentence; it's the word "yearly":
"This yearly initiative... |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:06 am
Post subject: Re: Managementspeak |
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Wood Avens wrote:
| Quote: | On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:15:33 +0000, Laura F Spira
laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
A message received this morning invites me to a breakfast seminar
with the title "Surfing the agequake". Not, as I first thought, an
introduction to an Inuit version of the Web but a discussion of
issues relating to the aging population.
And are you intending to go to it? As a fully-paid-up member of
the
population concerned, I'd welcome any tips on surfing.
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I'm about to make a car-sticker bearing some such words as "I'm a
pensioner and I vote".
(For back window use, you take a strip of Val Singleton plastic, and
write _on the sticky side_. The last one I made was many years ago
and read "Save Radio 4 Long Wave".)
Mike. |
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Steve Hayes
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:03 am
Post subject: Re: Managementspeak |
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:39:23 -0000, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | I'm about to make a car-sticker bearing some such words as "I'm a
pensioner and I vote".
(For back window use, you take a strip of Val Singleton plastic, and
write _on the sticky side_. The last one I made was many years ago
and read "Save Radio 4 Long Wave".)
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God save little shops, china cups and virginity.
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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Wood Avens
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:02 pm
Post subject: Re: Managementspeak |
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:39:23 -0000, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | For back window use, you take a strip of Val Singleton plastic, and
write _on the sticky side_.
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I say, that takes me back!
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Katy Jennison
spamtrap: remove the first two letters after the @ |
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Chris Malcolm
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 6:00 pm
Post subject: Re: Managementspeak |
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Laura F Spira <laura@dragonspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | Wood Avens wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:15:33 +0000, Laura F Spira
laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
A message received this morning invites me to a breakfast seminar with
the title "Surfing the agequake". Not, as I first thought, an
introduction to an Inuit version of the Web but a discussion of issues
relating to the aging population.
And are you intending to go to it? As a fully-paid-up member of the
population concerned, I'd welcome any tips on surfing.
No, I'm not. I think the idea is that some sort of consultant will offer
advice to businesses on employing the aged, rather than assisting the
aged themselves.
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I recently retired because I was finding it increasingly difficult to
keep up. The boring mundanities of work were consuming more time,
leaving less for the enjoyable things one was supposed to do in one's
spare time, in my case research and woffling on newsgroups. Having
thought carefully about this I had diagnosed my problem to be that I
work more slowly and less energetically than in my more intemperate
years.
Pursuing this idea by way of anecdote I'm led to suppose that simply
slowing down is a not uncommon concomitant of age. Another not
unocommon concomitant of age is wisdom and experience. Much of the
important culture and skills of a long established company often
reside in the old guys.
It would therefore seem sensible to make the most of one's aging
employees by reducing their workload and hours. That would accommodate
their slowing down while keeping them around to benefit from their
skills. The modern tendency, however, seems to be to keep ramping up
the pace of work until too many folk crack up under the strain, which
will have the opposite effect. Sensible oldsters with good pensions
thankfully take earlier retirement in order to preserve their
sanity. And governments and companies which have been raiding pension
schemes for years because the problems can be postponed until after
they've retired find they're holding the problem and the music has
stopped.
We can no longer afford to pension off our increasingly long lived old
people. They're capable of useful work. But they can't keep up with
modern production line methods, which with computerisation has
extended to paperwork, which in an extension of Parkinson's Law
expands to fill the available computers.
A revolution in the employment of the aging is required. It will
literally be a revolution, because it will involve returning to more
human friendly employment practices, practices which were once
current, in the old days before the deranged bean counters, their
follies insanely magnified by computers, took over the economy.
--
Chris Malcolm cam@infirmatics.ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 651 3445 DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/] |
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Paul Wolff
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:01 pm
Post subject: Re: Managementspeak |
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In message <2vmkd6F2nbdl5U1@uni-berlin.de>, Chris Malcolm
<cam@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> writes
| Quote: | The boring mundanities of work were consuming more time, leaving less
for the enjoyable things one was supposed to do in one's spare time, in
my case research and woffling on newsgroups.
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Hear, hear.
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Paul Woffl
In bocca al Lupo! |
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Sara Lorimer
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:01 pm
Post subject: Re: Managementspeak |
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Wood Avens wrote:
| Quote: | On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:15:33 +0000, Laura F Spira
laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
A message received this morning invites me to a breakfast seminar with
the title "Surfing the agequake". Not, as I first thought, an
introduction to an Inuit version of the Web but a discussion of issues
relating to the aging population.
And are you intending to go to it? As a fully-paid-up member of the
population concerned, I'd welcome any tips on surfing.
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Aren't we all part of the aging population? (Other than Mork, that is.)
--
SML |
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