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From The Economist:

 

“It’s not at all uncommon for the same executives who pride themselves on downsizing and speed-ups on the shop floor, or in delivery and so forth, to use the money saved at least in part to fill their offices with feudal retinues of basically useless flunkies.

They have whole teams of people who are just there, for instance, to design the graphics for their reports, write accolades for in-house magazines no one reads, or in many cases, who aren’t really doing anything at all ...But they are kept on because the prestige and even sometimes the salary of any given manager is measured by how many people he has working under him.”

 

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https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/06/29/bullshit-jobs-and-the-yoke-of-managerial-feudalism?al_applink_data={"target_url"%3A"https%3A\%2F\%2Fecon.trib.al\%2Fgsz7RBX"%2C"extras"%3A{"fb_app_id"%3A128869720483178}%2C"referer_app_link"%3A{"url"%3A"fb%3A\%2F\%2F\%2F%3Fapp_id%3D128869720483178"%2C"app_name"%3A"Facebook"}}

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30 minutes ago, starman said:

From The Economist:

 

“It’s not at all uncommon for the same executives who pride themselves on downsizing and speed-ups on the shop floor, or in delivery and so forth, to use the money saved at least in part to fill their offices with feudal retinues of basically useless flunkies.

They have whole teams of people who are just there, for instance, to design the graphics for their reports, write accolades for in-house magazines no one reads, or in many cases, who aren’t really doing anything at all ...But they are kept on because the prestige and even sometimes the salary of any given manager is measured by how many people he has working under him.”

 

From:

https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/06/29/bullshit-jobs-and-the-yoke-of-managerial-feudalism?al_applink_data={"target_url"%3A"https%3A\%2F\%2Fecon.trib.al\%2Fgsz7RBX"%2C"extras"%3A{"fb_app_id"%3A128869720483178}%2C"referer_app_link"%3A{"url"%3A"fb%3A\%2F\%2F\%2F%3Fapp_id%3D128869720483178"%2C"app_name"%3A"Facebook"}}

And when you don’t have shareholders to satisfy and only answer to politicians the tendency to do this must be unstoppable 

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1 hour ago, Jon57 said:

A bit early for me! Just trying to make breakfast for 2 with one egg and 1 rasher of bacon! 

That's easy - flip a coin for who gets the bacon. Would be much harder if you had one egg and two rashers of bacon. (Unless you invent a currency exchange rate of 1 egg =  2 rashers)

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40 minutes ago, Murflynn said:

whoever gets up first makes their own breakfast and has bacon and an egg.

 

that'll learn you to stay in bed in the morning. 

...and, being already up, can have breakfasted and gone to the shop to buy more eggs and bacon before the other one gets up.

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2 hours ago, Arthur Marshall said:

I think he's saying you should let your servants make your breakfast. 

 

And sack them when they don't buy sufficient supplies of basic foodstuffs?

2 hours ago, Chewbacka said:

That’s easy, which do you want, the egg or the bacon?

 

Chop up the bacon, cook it, scramble the egg, mix, serve on toast. 

Nothing too difficult about that.

 

It's easy to see who doesn't come from a large family...

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1 hour ago, Machpoint005 said:

 

Chop up the bacon, cook it, scramble the egg, mix, serve on toast. 

 

did he say he had bread to make toast?    

2 hours ago, Athy said:

...and, being already up, can have breakfasted and gone to the shop to buy more eggs and bacon before the other one gets up.

as long as you're not in China.   :rolleyes:

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You haven't seen the telly programme about what they euphemistically call 'mechanically recovered meat', then?

 

Basically all the bits of a pig that don't look like meat get ground up real fine, and bunged in the sausages. Along with yes, bread. 

 

LURVELY!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Amongst all that black pudding and baked beans was a serious comment presumably aimed at a certain canal owner and may be a star wars related television campaign that such minions would draw up if they were the type suggested in that original post. Now if Mercia declared UDI that would mess things up! We could have a Mercian Canal Trust in the Midlands, but would they do any better?

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On 19/09/2019 at 12:49, doratheexplorer said:

I had a sausage and egg sandwich for breakfast this morning.  Very nice it was too.  What are we talking about?

Alright show off!

3 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Have you seen what they put in sausages????

 

YUK!!!

 

 

 

Pig, herbs and spices. Nothing else.

 

Unless you're eating Walls or Richmond sausages (or any other of those nasty "sausage" brands). In which case, salt (plenty of), lips and arseholes. Nothing else.

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