Lee InSolent....
"But your management must surely have a quantifiable business benefit from using such a system surely?"
The benefits are :-
1 . A Sh*te totally inflexible system which manages to constantly p*ss off all operational staff. (the management aim i believe)
2. A mere initial outlay running into hundreds of thousands of pounds. (how much does pen and paper cost?)
3. A whole army of staff specifically employed to work/fiddle the system, again costing hundreds of thousands of pounds annually to administer. (thats not to say the ORO staff do there best to work it).
4. A sytem which apparently revolves around allocating staff to sectors by working thru surnames to sectors alphabetically, therefore those at the beginning of the alphabet constantly being rostered on the same sectors and those nearer Z getting whats left over.
ARgghhh - now i think about it it all makes sense
, how about management letting the operational staff come up with a roster for them..........can ****logic work out this dilemma :-
Q. Too many managemnt divided by 10:00 - 15:00 on a 3 day week ?
A. Yes, but it cant get it to you by the 20th