I am not saying that making other choices would change things but how many of you voted for the DC and zero hours contracts make Britain competitive party yesterday?
The reality of modern business life is that it is largely run by soulless people who are too stupid in real terms to ever have held down a proper job. year back people developed specialised skills and knowledge-as they grew older they added management skills either from courses or day release or learning on the job.
today you can effectively start as a manager and as all business are reduced toa simple equation costs bad / revenues good they can all be run in the same way by the same people. All jobs are process oriented even when that's not really possible and every decision is reduced to a simple more revenue good more cost bad decision as there is no judgement or foresight or careful judgement in the process .
The problem is that as soon as a business gets some complexity added in this strategy does not work to well, judgement is required but there is no experience left so judgements will be bad.
is it a coincidence in the UK that while some things work quite well- Amazon deliveries for example everything that is complicated -Railways , NHS, Airlines too if you like run very badly mostly because they are too complicated to be reduced to simple spreadsheets .
The human tragedy is that the pressure put on the pivotal workers ina system , beat coppers, NHS nurses, airline pilots , school teachers etc grow and grow because these people have no where to hide . they are faced every day with making the judgements their managers used to but with the authority nd support removed from them-they cannot look upwards for help because there is none there, unlike previous generations the managers never did these jobs so they cannot share the burden and just push it back down on the shoulders of those at the sharp end.
And guess what its a double whammy for you guys because compared to those occupations you do or are thought to earn a lot of money and are therefore high cost AND if you screw up you do it in spades costing lives and millions of pounds. So you had better soon find a way of putting the pay to fly-roster to death genie back in the bottle or there will be many more of you burning out and not reaching your ever receding retirement age to survive on your ever reducing pension.
And to go back to my beginning the losers of the election may not be that much better than the winners but you can be sure there will be no Government sympathy for your cause for the next five years either but how many of you voted thatway