Only hardships as my old colleague used to say. A play on Lord Nelson's quote placing the telescope to his blind eye! But it also encompassed the day-to-day struggles we had at work especially with useless management and people with a complete lack of vision. People I hoped that I'd never turn into. Hopefully I succeeded but I suppose that's for others to judge?
You see it all the time this inability to do the job they are paid for, to think ahead and plan for all eventualities, to get the materials for the job and the people for the job to be at the same place at the same time. I recall being asked to have 20 men on site on a Monday morning which I did have and arriving late to site the customer opened his car boot and gave me a couple of reels of cable. "So what do you want me to do in 5 minutes time?" I asked. Where's the materials? Long story he hadn't organised any or rather he had but it would arrive later in the week and so I promptly charged him for the standing up time and then showed him how to call in a favour. I called my supplier who was local and asked them for every bit of cable and racks etc they had and could they get them to me ASAP. They did, in sort measure and a couple of journeys he and I organised the delivery of equipment and we got the job done charging appropriately for the privilege.
It's how I got to work in the IT business proper as they saw I could sort this stuff out.
Today, it appears you don't need to do your job properly judging from the utter nonsense that is going on in this country, neither do you need to understand the actual job you are tasked with doing or be an expert in your field. I watched the economic figures coming out yesterday and the total lack of awareness of the damage these people are causing by not understanding even basic economics. Whole industries are having dire straits in this awful oppressive environment of taxation in all of its forms. As the economy shrinks they believe it is external factors and yet cannot see that their policies are to blame and confidence is flat because we can see that they are driving us over a cliff. Why they pursue policies based on ideology rather than good old fashioned common sense is beyond me and 99% of the population.
Typically, the very things bringing the country to its knees is the thing they are keen to do more of! It's not just this Government either, the previous lot sat on their fat arses and did nothing as well. They cannot do the basics right, they have no plan, they have no clue how they are going to get out of this and we are left watching the car crash in slow motion and they cannot see it. How is that even possible?
You can actually feel it at last. People are fed up with this mismanagement and incompetence and it is affecting our safety and security now. The underlying feeling is that they just don't care, that the more they tax us the better things will be and they miss the fact that external observations of our country, its government and tax regime put off investment. There's no profit in it for the savvy investor and they can go elsewhere. It isn't in the gift of the overburdened tax payer to invest into this country mainly because most of the spare money they do have is gone in tax, higher bills etc. People are hunkering down now, they know what's coming and they aren't spending and that puts us into the spiral that the sown seeds of low confidence and oppression by this poor excuse of a Government will inevitably lead us to and that's a recession (let's hope it isn't a depression).
These problems are of their own making and they can get out of it but their socialist, Marxist, spiteful policies blind them to the possibilities available to do so.
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