Friday, September 01, 2006
A good start.
The local "news"paper reports here on people leaving the council employ. You can see by the title: "Concern over number of senior workers leaving York council" the've got the slant all wrong. It would be different if the concern was not enough were leaving, but the story shows it isn't.
"Labour leader Dave Merrett ... claims the "brain drain" is hitting particular departments such as the chief executive's office and highlighted the "astonishing" situation in the authority's transport planning department where 22 full time workers have left since the start of 2003."
Mmmm "brain drain" I don't think there's any danger of that. As for the transport planning department, presumably these bozos were responsible for brining us the ftr - big pink slug that carries 37 passengers, despite being twice the size of a standard bus. We could do with losing a few more of these "brains".
Merrett continues: "He cited the example of team leaders in the York Pride office who, the council confirmed, have to man the authority's action hotline during busy periods." Good grief, I've never seen that in the private sector have you? You know a supervisor having to do some of the standard work when short staffed in a busy period. Wake up Merrett, try a proper job and see what happens in the real world. Anyway why not just abolish the York Pride Office?
The article prints a list of the 45 who've left, (The YC-45) as follows:
Two Chief Officers.
Director of commercial services.
Deputy chief executive.
21 Middle Managers.
Food & safety unit manager.
Design manager.
Senior solicitor housing.
Scrutinty manager.
Principal transport manager.
School councillor.
Head of youth offending team.
Group manager adult.
Business promoter Science City.
Business development.
Head of community services.
Development manager. Highways quality assistant .
Principal transport officer.
Business supply manager.
Area team leader.
Access to services manager .
Senior business partner ADS.
Human resources corporate advisor.
2 * senior assistant solicitors.
It doesn't tell us which have been replaced, more importantly it doesn't tell us who we've still got to get rid of. Nevertheless, a step in the right direction. A good start.
"Labour leader Dave Merrett ... claims the "brain drain" is hitting particular departments such as the chief executive's office and highlighted the "astonishing" situation in the authority's transport planning department where 22 full time workers have left since the start of 2003."
Mmmm "brain drain" I don't think there's any danger of that. As for the transport planning department, presumably these bozos were responsible for brining us the ftr - big pink slug that carries 37 passengers, despite being twice the size of a standard bus. We could do with losing a few more of these "brains".
Merrett continues: "He cited the example of team leaders in the York Pride office who, the council confirmed, have to man the authority's action hotline during busy periods." Good grief, I've never seen that in the private sector have you? You know a supervisor having to do some of the standard work when short staffed in a busy period. Wake up Merrett, try a proper job and see what happens in the real world. Anyway why not just abolish the York Pride Office?
The article prints a list of the 45 who've left, (The YC-45) as follows:
Two Chief Officers.
Director of commercial services.
Deputy chief executive.
21 Middle Managers.
Food & safety unit manager.
Design manager.
Senior solicitor housing.
Scrutinty manager.
Principal transport manager.
School councillor.
Head of youth offending team.
Group manager adult.
Business promoter Science City.
Business development.
Head of community services.
Development manager. Highways quality assistant .
Principal transport officer.
Business supply manager.
Area team leader.
Access to services manager .
Senior business partner ADS.
Human resources corporate advisor.
2 * senior assistant solicitors.
It doesn't tell us which have been replaced, more importantly it doesn't tell us who we've still got to get rid of. Nevertheless, a step in the right direction. A good start.
