Government action is avoiding a worse recession

[tarrant]

Jan 28, 2009 16:31:07 GMT VikingHumpingWitch said:

I'd go with this plan anyway as it appears to suggest reducing sales staff but not back office. .

Brilliant piece of management.

Get rid of the staff who make the money and keep the staff who act as personal servants to the managers.

And we wonder why there is a recession!!

Sad part is this is happening everywhere.

I know of a very large international building company that keep cutting back on those workers who actually do the building while expanding the office staff and organising days out for them to posh hotels for 'Get to Know you secessions.'

Recessions are like eating. You can enjoy the glut but sooner or later you gotta have a poo.

[flatandy]

My mortgage, too, has dropped by some insane amount since I acquired it. I just hope that, in a year's time when it comes to the end of it's planned length, mortgage lending has started again and we can get another insanely low rate.

[dwad]

Jan 28, 2009 17:04:14 GMT VikingHumpingWitch said:

I have just had The most depressing conversation with a Director. Who thinks she'll end up losing her job.

Seriously, I'm going to take up knitting kiddie clothes.

Seriously, not a bad idea. I notice Mothercare are one of the few people doing well at the moment. Recessions don't stop people procreating - kids stuff isn't a bad idea.

[omnipleasant]

You mortgage holders won't be so smug when the recovery starts and inflation starts to rocket and interest rates have to go up to 314%.

[flatandy]

That PBR graph is properly fascinating and makes it all the more flummoxing that Gordo isn't building maglev monorails the length and breadth of Britain.

[dwad]

Jan 28, 2009 17:07:15 GMT @omnipleasant said:

You mortgage holders won't be so smug when the recovery starts and inflation starts to rocket and interest rates have to go up to 314%.

Watch my smug smile. I have bought a cheap investment property (because I am a blood sucking bastard) during the slump so as soon as things pick up I sell that one off and pay off half my main mortgage. I am glowing with smugness. If things don't pick up I stay on a low rate with a big mortgage.

[omnipleasant]

I'm planning to make full use of my green fingers and plan to be in the vangaurd of the post-apocalypse post-capitalist subsistence economy.

[flatandy]

As for kiddy clothes, it's not a bad plan.

Cold winter, plus people who can't afford to go out = lots of sex. Apparently they're also expecting Obama-boomers in the US because of the number of people who stayed off work to watch his holiness get inaugurated, and who got their own stimulus from watching him.

Expect lots more annoying little brats in coming months.

[VikingHumpingWitch]

Jan 28, 2009 17:05:18 GMT @tarrant said:

Jan 28, 2009 16:31:07 GMT VikingHumpingWitch said:

I'd go with this plan anyway as it appears to suggest reducing sales staff but not back office. .

Brilliant piece of management.

Get rid of the staff who make the money and keep the staff who act as personal servants to the managers.

And we wonder why there is a recession!!

Hmm, well I think the idea is to keep the ones who are making the money and eliminate the ones who are underperforming. I mean I could be wrong, but that seems more likely.

Also the report doesn't touch on back office staff as the author only manages sales people. I'm sure back office will be shorn as well but there are already very few of them in comparison to numbers of sales staff. And none of them are personal servants to managers, they do other less important stuff like process invoices and payroll, some would say these are important to the running of a company.

I think your analytical skills would be more effective if you knew a bit more before making your recommendations.

[omnipleasant]

Jan 28, 2009 17:08:11 GMT flatandy said:

That PBR graph is properly fascinating and makes it all the more flummoxing that Gordo isn't building maglev monorails the length and breadth of Britain.

I think it's probably political. The clueless chinless Etonian wonders and their adoring media are going big on the "debt that our grandchildren will have to pay!!!111" thing, and the public are agreeing.

[flatandy]

So Gordon is so weak-livered he can't stand up and say "Er, you know, that debt is almost all caused by lower tax receipts due to lower economic growth; and almost none of it is due to short term fiscal stimulus", even though it's true?

He's really that much of a pathetic coward?

I actually think it's because the retarded idiot is still hooked on Thatcherite mythologies. It's not that he hasn't the courage, it's because he actually thinks Keynes was wrong and Nicolas Ridley was right.

[VikingHumpingWitch]

Nothing to do with the thread but just made me snort - I'm also rewriting the Director's comments following her appraisals with the managers she oversees. Under "What do you perceive to be your greatest weakness" the manager has written her response, the Director's comment below was "These are all elements of Appraisee's personality, but are under control".

Well there's very little to laugh about in my job.

[omnipleasant]

Well, a more balanced analysis might be that they wanted to wait and see what happened once all the initial action had started to work through, and wanted to keep options up their sleeve for the budget if needed. Which it is.

[omnipleasant]

In response to the "greatest weakness" question I always used to say something pathetically meaningless and slimey but ultimately effective, like "I sometimes pay too much attention to detail"

In my last interview I decided to be a bit more honest, and I said "I'm a really crap timekeeper. Always late for stuff". Didn't get the job.

[VikingHumpingWitch]

I'm honest and say I'm crap at maths. Because if the role involves maths I don't want it anyway.

Thinking about it, I may reference my raging nymphomania if I ever get as far as a job interview in Sweden.

[omnipleasant]

"I'm honest and say I'm crap at maths."

Yeah, it's become socially acceptable for people to admit they're thick, for some reason...

[omnipleasant]

Hey what did you do there? That nympho stuff wasn't in your original post. Can you change your existing posts? Or is it witchcraft?

I've worked it out now Andy thank you very much. You can reply to posts below you and it looks like you've travelled in time! Proboards are cool!!!

[VikingHumpingWitch]

I'm not thick, it's dysnumeracy.

I met a guy the other day who has been diagnosed as both dyslexic and ADHD, by the way. Two made-up conditions for the price of one, cool huh.

[flatandy]

dysnumeracy?

Hahahaha!

You mean "thick".

Clearly Omni is thick, too, though, and can't read as far as the "modify" button on his own posts.

[jonren]

Vox, don't knit for kiddies. Have some. You can have eight at a time now and you're only preggie once. What a saving, Your government will make you a millionairess.