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🦃 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XIX 🦃

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  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    It makes it all stink Dove doesn't it? Because not only does Boris appear to think he's above the law, the people who are supposed to uphold the law also then uphold that view. The law can't be seen to be corrupt as well can it? You would have at least expected the police on site to have filed some form of report.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They probably did.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Much as you’d expect Prince Andrew’s security to have a record of his comings and goings.  After all, I presume he’ll have been claiming expenses  :/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Just thought this was apt - plus I like the song anyway:

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016

    That sums up the person in question very well.  I had dealings with another person when still working for the same organisation.  We had similar jobs in different parts of the UK, and I always got on really well with him, until he was promoted.  In his case it was more of a Napoleon complex he developed, which was put into words better than I could by one of the people who worked directly with him prior to his promotion.  In her words "He changed from being a lovely, supportive colleague into a f***ing lying little g*bsh**e!"
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    The higher the monkey climbs the tree the more you see its backside.
    Rutland, England
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    And of course … there’s always the Peter Principle … 🙄 

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  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    What's that @Dovefromabove ? (Or should I wait until after the watershed for an explanation?!!)
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2022

    @Plantminded  …. It’s a concept in management which, in short, is this …

    The Peter principle states that a person who is competent at their job will earn a promotion to a position that requires different skills. If the promoted person lacks the skills required for the new role, they will be incompetent at the new level, and will not be promoted again. If the person is competent in the new role, they will be promoted again and will continue to be promoted until reaching a level at which they are incompetent. Being incompetent, the individual will not qualify for promotion again, and so will remain stuck at this "Final Placement" or "Peter's Plateau."


    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle  

    I would suggest that a large proportion of the current front bench proves the theory. 

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  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Thank you @Dovefromabove , so that's what I was witnessing in my former corporate life - I used to use a less flattering term!  Thank goodness those days are over!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


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