tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14551345.post3563413842146517784..comments2023-05-01T05:17:41.677-07:00Comments on Tales from Helminthdale: Always wash your brushes and put the ladders awayKevin Musgrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14472110857057175327noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14551345.post-91702409248438308812009-09-16T19:12:45.489-07:002009-09-16T19:12:45.489-07:00My wife works with an Ulmsley Warton-type who has ...My wife works with an Ulmsley Warton-type who has been with the company for forty-five years. When she has a question or problem she asks Bill and gets a simple answer straightaway.<br /><br />The High Priests in Kansas City and Chicago pay him no mind, though. They have their committees and boards and workgroups and IT, but Bill is only a lowly shipping yard manager—a fellow who has been in the trenches for nearly half a century.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the Ulmsleys and Bills are a dying breed—and NO pun intended.Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722567671925063706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14551345.post-47031821618161486972009-09-10T12:20:10.209-07:002009-09-10T12:20:10.209-07:00Gadjo: I suspect it's something sequential, li...<b>Gadjo</b>: I suspect it's something sequential, like the Perils of Pauline.<br /><br /><b>Affer</b>: I can certainly bear the spirit of a compliment, thank you sir. The best organisations always find a way to sideline the fads and get the humans systems working for them.<br /><br /><b>Pat</b>: and thank you, too, lady. It's despair, Pat, real, deep, awful despair.<br /><br /><b>Macy</b>: I have friends and relatives who have left the sector with solicitors' agreements, I understand completely.Kevin Musgrovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14472110857057175327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14551345.post-50169732694935247592009-09-10T08:59:47.057-07:002009-09-10T08:59:47.057-07:00Mr M - my agreement with the Big American Bank pre...Mr M - my agreement with the Big American Bank precludes me from giving any details about anything. But if it's any consolation I can assure you that demotivation, inept management and de-personalisation are rife throughout the financial services sector too.Macyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16117141586263456823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14551345.post-73300871865628912002009-09-10T03:47:25.616-07:002009-09-10T03:47:25.616-07:00Ah Umsley - they don't make them like that an...Ah Umsley - they don't make them like that anymore.<br />I also love your writing but reading what Affer says I wonder if your writing is prompted by humour or despair. I do hope the formsr.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01529798893653033970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14551345.post-33193040242821317792009-09-10T00:07:14.363-07:002009-09-10T00:07:14.363-07:00Could you bear a compliment? This reminds me of Ne...Could you bear a compliment? This reminds me of Neville Shute's writing: crisp and to the point. And rather sad; for despite all our so-called advances in education, technology, systems, blah-blah, 'business' and 'management' today seems to have forgotten how brilliant humans are when allowed to use a few thousand years of evolution.Afferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04053428773264067176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14551345.post-38894593348343192912009-09-09T23:49:45.070-07:002009-09-09T23:49:45.070-07:00There is a film in all this, Kevin. Shame that Ali...There <i>is</i> a film in all this, Kevin. Shame that Alistair Sim is no longer with us, I suspect he would've made a fine Ulmsley Warton.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.com