It has always been a pet peeve of mine that minority groups get preference and special treatment over and above the majority. The whole purpose of living in a democracy and somewhere that upholds equal rights is that, well, call me old fashioned, that everyone is treated equally. It should not really matter what you are, who you think you are, what you consider yourself to be etc., you should have all the advantages that equality should bring but, no, they don't want that, they want preferential treatment to my detriment.
Equality is exactly that. It is not forcing the vast majority to agree with whatever difference you have, I don't have to agree or like anything you stand for but don't you dare force me to do so. Here again, I don't care if you colour your hair, wear clothes that I wouldn't be seen dead in or practice some medieval witch thing. It doesn't matter you do what you want in the confines of your own home or tribal meetings or whatever just don't force me to have my life changed because you want some sort of overt recognition or to change the law so that I have to change my way of life. Go about your own life in equality and peace and leave me the f**k alone.
That's all I really ask. I don't care what you are or what you say you are, I don't care for your way of life, your religion or any such thing, what I care about is you interfering in my life. I don't impose my ideals on to you so don't you think that you can impose yours on to me. If you want equality or your lifestyle imposed on others be prepared to be savagely repulsed. How about those posing as environmental groups? If you want to protest then do so but don't stop me doing what I want to do, don't block roads, smash up petrol stations and put your generally unwashed bodies in my way. Stop telling me what to do, I don't tell you what to do other than to f**k off out of my way or similar.
What makes these tiny minority's brains think that they are right, that they have some moral superiority and therefore can lord it over the rest of us? I've found that ignorant people tend to have some moral high ground that they've found that makes them dictate to their fellow citizens that their tiny, pea in whistle minds have something to add to society but as they are unable to properly scientifically communicate this in open discussion (without losing their tiny minds and yelling stupid words) they feel that actions designed to p1ss off their fellow citizens and generally making a nuisance of themselves is justified because two or three of their grey cells aligned more in an act of gravity rather than logical argument!
Leave me the f**k alone whoever you are. Go and do what the rest of society would do and argue your case properly. So many problems are caused because activists and pressure groups and let's face it, weirdos, actually get to run things these days not on a meritorious basis but on some strange selection process based on a spreadsheet of ensuring that they employ one of each from the tick box. It doesn't work, it has NEVER worked and it cannot in the future be relied on to work. We are seeing the stupidity of employing unsuitable people into organisations and the stupidity of doing so. I suppose as they go on destroying the fabric of society and the places in which they work must be poisonous in the extreme. You see some unbelievable stuff going on and hopefully it will utterly destroy these businesses and organisations who in their dying throes might, albeit I doubt it, realise what has led them to this place.
I never had to deal with spreadsheet hires apart from those our customer's made. I was employed to do a particular job and I has to upset people or rescue businesses. The worst ones to tackle and turn around were public sector ones and those being brought out of nationalisation and being made private. This is where these people hide. Many don't appear to have any practical experience in doing things properly and all seemed to be directly, in your face, sometimes aggressively, resistant to change. Change was what was needed in all cases and there was a culture of laziness and push-back to any initiative. Yet they were the ones who complained loudest and for whom the work I was doing would have benefited. Very few had the wit to realise this. It wasn't up to me to manage these people (it would have been interesting if I had) but I would deliver the solution to the Directors and Managers and they would have to work out how to make the changes.
On the occasions when I was allowed to do some managing and was accorded the proper delegation powers I could generally pull the majority of the team out of their malaise (for this is generally true of these organisations) and get whole departments moving as an interim director or manager. An anecdote if I may here. I was generally there to provide a shock and awe type assignment (not always) and I generally tried to get everyone to come on the journey with me. So they called me in asked for some "strong" project management and I gained the relevant authority and went to work. Generally after talking to each of the staff and the managers and so on, within a few days you'd be able to work out what was wrong. Get people in to discuss figures and performance data and then come to a conclusion and plan.
Once you've got a picture of this there are a few courses of action that probably need to be taken. Sacking three or four of the big problems being one of them. I'd go to HR, explain what I wanted to do and that I wanted these people out of the department but if they wanted to retain them elsewhere in the business that was their prerogative. Generally they were told to clear their desk and would be escorted off of the premises and many of the problems would disappear overnight. Why am I saying this? Well these were generally the sort of people who were put up with for years and weren't doing their jobs, they should have been dealt with years ago and they held the whole organisation back. Find a few good workers from what remained, put them into management positions, train them to be managers and within a few months you had a new enthused department. Make decisions, tell them what you were going to do, keep your word and so on. It's not that difficult.
It looks these days as if management are held to ransom by those who hide behind other excuses for laziness and ineptitude. It's fashionable to be different and part of a minority if you don't have to perform your duties - but of course - I sure that not everyone is like that.
I wonder when we will wake up to this tail wagging the dog fallacy and grow a pair and fight back. Business are held to ransom by it and now government are too. Look at the current crop of politicians and the front bench are made up of people who've never really held a proper job down and who seem totally lost. The trouble is they have strange overblown confidence in their "abilities" whereas we can all see they are totally incompetent and leading the country into some pretty bad times. Their only answer is to punish the very people they are meant to represent whilst spending our money like its going out of fashion on vanity projects with no possible return on investment.
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