I remember JSP 101 being a thing of beauty and treated like a DW bible. Over recent years it’s been slimmed down to shadow of its former self, to bring it in line with other departmental style guides, and is openly treated as mere guidance, contradicted by internal writing guides, or ignored accordingly.
The ban on post-nominal letters is one particular area where it is mostly ignored. I include the post-nominal letters that indicate my status as a reservist. Not doing so would feel rather Waltish. My unit being a reserve one isn’t enough, as we have regulars in our CoC and I spend a lot of time serving in regular units with their details in my signature block.
Others quite rightly include state honours and higher medals; what would be the point in awarding post-nominal letters if recipients couldn’t use them in the environment where they are most relevant?
Went out last night with wife, drove in her car, which has the car seats. Taxi home because wine was consumed.
Get home, decide to book swim for kids for a nice Sunday activity.
Wake up this morning and remember car with car seats, which we need for said swim is half way across town…
It’s just the financial situation of the UK today; some families can’t afford for both cars in the household to have seats so they just have one set which they switch between cars.
Car died today, whilst at the front of a queue of traffic with traffic lights at a busy junction on my way to work. Turned off with the stop/start, wouldn’t restart. Electrical smoke and smell of burning.
Rather than help, people just decided to beep their horns until 2 kind people decided to help me push it out of the way.
How crap is society that rather than help we’d rather sit and give abuse rather than see if someone needs help.
Only upside is AA got to me within 10 minutes and the tow truck within a further 45.
unfortunately that is very much the state of society and a real life example of the attitudes we can see so easily on Social Media.
David Gorman describes the comments section as “bottom half of the internet” - and i feel it is also where the bottom of society can be found given the often extremist views one way or another
pleased you were not stuck for long and hope today your commute (if possible) is an easy one!
GMG. Lots of new professionals have joined my work world recently - bringing “fresh ideas” and “new perspectives”. Unfortunately, the “fresh” and “new” are exactly the same as things that have already been tried, tested and failed over the last 15-20 years - and I’ve got a stack of evidence on the failure of said programmes.
Apparently, I’m being “too negative” and should remember “it’s a different time now - things have moved on”. Yes - they have moved on. Services have been hugely eroded, we are in a financially worse position, we have less resources and significantly less capacity to make this stuff happen.
Thankfully, my manager (who has similar thoughts and feelings on these programmes!) has given me a pass to swerve on lots of it - but there are still a number of people internally and externally who are pressing ahead regardless for very marginal gains.
Share with them why it didn’t work in the specific circumstances previously. Allow them to be fully informed, and then let them choose whether to continue that path or not.
It’s a difficult balancing act to be realistic with the newbies without taking the shine away from their enthusiasm. Fresh eyes can, sometimes, find a solution that more experienced eyes miss.
You can but try - & perhaps fortunate that there is the chance for feedback before they make stoopid decisions.
It’s when the management does thing without telling you……
VVIP corporate aviation - memo to crew - we are removing all stocks of Evian water from the aircraft / stock locations (USA management might have got snotty about French inputs into GW2); they will be replaced by Fuji water.
Whilst the irony of carbon offsets wasn’t lost on crews, Fuji water has a rather long transport footprint. Lots of the posh pax complained.
However, the main reason to return to (round) Evian bottles less than a week later? The (square shaped) Fuji bottles didn’t fit in the round glass / bottle holders!
Same happened when I was in the NHS, new manager, we’ll try this brilliant new idea I have, rest of us, we did that twenty, years ago, then ten years ago, with far more resources then than now, it won’t work. Cries of you load of dinosaurs and son negative. No, just realists and have the experience. We’ll do it again, and it fails again.
Yeap - already done! And they’re still pressing ahead.
Spoke to a colleague in a neighbouring LA this morning. She’s noticed the same thing happening there too - only she doesn’t have the evidence to support it - as it was done whilst she was a subcontractor to the LA.
