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£7million Spent on Consultants Who Advise Civil Servants to Put 'Black Tape on Desks'
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Posted on 01/07/2007 2:07:36 PM PST by Dallas59
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Think outside the box....
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:07:41 PM PST
by
Dallas59
To: Dallas59
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:08:46 PM PST
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Father of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier fighting the terrorists in Iraq)
To: Dallas59
Working in a manufacturing plant, lean programs can save money and make a lot of sense. But there is a right way and a dumb way to implement them. And this is the dumb way. Fortunately, like the article mentioned, people will just start ignoring in the first time the consultants and auditors move on (if their managers are bright enough to let them!)
To: SoldierDad
We had 5S at my place....It had to be re initiated every 6 months or so.....
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:13:23 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!)
To: Liberty1970
When auditing time came around we just shoved the "snaps" and "inactive fruit" in the desk drawers...
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:14:37 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!)
To: Dallas59
I believe that this is actually one of the better ideas to come out of the Ministry of Silly Walks
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:16:23 PM PST
by
centurion316
(Democrats - Supporting Al Qaida Worldwide)
To: Dallas59
But Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs - which is paying consultants 7.4m for so-called Lean programme - said the tape would help to keep desks clear of clutter. Officials said it is 'much better to work in a tidy work environment where everything has its place'.It's like the "Lean Manufacturing" at my workplace. My former boss called it "the manufacturing flavour of the week". I gathered he wasn't as impressed by it either.
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:16:25 PM PST
by
magslinger
(An open mind is like an outhouse. Sooner or later someone is going to fill it.)
To: Liberty1970
Why, the "inactive fruit" part was brilliant. Everyone knows that inactive fruits are unbelievably pernicious and a serious health hazard.
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:16:31 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: Dallas59
This obsession with clear desks belies my experience. I've known plenty of administrative workers whose offices are a complete mess, and know every scrap of paper in the room and get things done like gangbusters.
Methings it's more like the consultants are offended by slobs in the office, and try to stamp it out through the fiat they've been contracted to provide.
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:17:40 PM PST
by
MIT-Elephant
("Armed with what? Spitballs?")
To: Dallas59
Sounds like a sure path to increased inefficiency to me. The good workers will all quit and go somewhere they're not treated like first-week boot-camp inductees, and the losers who can't get jobs elsewhere will stay.
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:18:54 PM PST
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: Dallas59
Tape on your chair to show where to put your a$$. If you are wider than the chair, you are in trouble.
Also, tape on your desk to show where to put your head when you sleep.
Is singing/dancing fruit OK? Like those California raisins?
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:19:22 PM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: MIT-Elephant
This article sounds like a script from "The Office"!!
To: Dallas59
These folks should put tape around their butt hole to show them where they can shove all this.
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:20:13 PM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: Dallas59
I'm also inclined to think that once you have inculcated a culture of lame deskworking, no gang of consultants is going to get them up to private-sector productivity. They have civil servant unions to keep this under control.
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:20:46 PM PST
by
MIT-Elephant
("Armed with what? Spitballs?")
Sounds a little obsessive/compulsive.
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:20:59 PM PST
by
SuzyQue
(Remember to think.)
To: Dallas59
along with any 'inactive fruit'. Wouldn't that rule out the consultant? Or is that just a active nut?
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:22:56 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: Dallas59
What about the inefficieny of wasting £7 million to pay consultants for recommendations that are certain to be ignored?
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:23:05 PM PST
by
Mr J
(All IMHO.)
To: Dallas59
...along with any 'inactive fruit'. Would they prefer 'active' fruit? And what kind?
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:23:11 PM PST
by
uglybiker
(A bunch of radical Unitarians left a flaming question mark on my lawn!)
To: GSlob
Everyone knows that inactive fruits are unbelievably pernicious and a serious health hazard. Even more so than active fruits?
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:24:55 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(...Phi Kappa Sigma, Beta Rho '87..."Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?")
To: Dallas59
Why oh why can't I get a job like this?
I was a contract process engineer at a chemical plant several years ago. They had some sort of process efficiency program that they implemented. I ended up with a 1.1 million dollar project to implement some of the changes. I was there on site another 4 years or so and went back to the office.
One day I get a call from the plant to come and quote another job. They had gone through another one of these things with different people. The outcome of this one was a new project on the same process. Roughly $800,000 to put the process back like it was. And they didn't remember that the "new" way was exaxtly what they had paid me some years earlier to take out.
I just shook my head, implemented the "new" project, and took the money.
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