Did you know that the army had outsourced recruitment to Capita? Who came up with that genius, money-saving idea? If you’re planning to join up you need a seen-it-all NCO to both size you up and tell it how it is. Not the usual teenager in their first job you find in a recruitment agency, who may have seen ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and played with an Action Man, but is otherwise only interested in making their target and keeping their job. I despair. Again.
“The working-from-home illusion fades”
Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.
