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''See also the [[Northern Ireland portfolio|Secretary of State for Northern Ireland]] in the 1970s.'' | ''See also the [[Northern Ireland portfolio|Secretary of State for Northern Ireland]] in the 1970s.'' | ||
The [[head of the documentation unit]] is an accursed person in an [[investment bank]], although {{sex|he}} is usually the last one to recognise this. This poor sod is responsible for the performance of the sainted men and women who make {{tag|contract}}ual flesh the fantastical aspirations of the [[credit]] department | The [[head of the documentation unit]] is an accursed person in an [[investment bank]], although {{sex|he}} is usually the last one to recognise this. This poor sod is responsible for the performance of the sainted men and women who make {{tag|contract}}ual flesh the fantastical aspirations of the [[credit]] department. One earns this Sisyphean task only to atone for a sin committed in a former life or as an act of spite, vengeance or perverse cruelty from someone else further up the organisation. Keep your friends close and — when it comes promotion time — your enemies closer. This is a [[stretch assignment]] you do not want. | ||
Running the [[doc unit]] is | Running the [[doc unit]] is thankless not because of the negotiators — by and large a perfectly pleasant, capable and long-suffering bunch — but, because of its cost, heft, and inevitably negative impact on the franchise. The doc unit is therefore an irresistible “cost centre” for [[change manager|change managers]], [[management consultant|management consultants]],and [[chief operating officer]]s to fiddle with. [[Offshoring]], [[outsourcing]], operations-aligning, [[Automation - Amwell|automating]] — all of kind of easily spoken ideas will flood {{sex|his}} feverish mind. It will not be his job to do them. | ||
This ideas will override any the poor [[head of the documentation unit]] should have of her own to fix things. Any such ideas, however wise, will fail. but not before being co-opted, amalgamated, misinterpreted, forced through a sieve of business administration dogma and systematically brutalised until they are unrecognizable, unworkable, inexcusable, and yet still inextricably associated with the [[head of the documentation unit]]. He — or she — is generally regarded as a dead man walking. | |||
Readers who sense that the author has experienced these sensations from close range would be absolutely right. | Readers who sense that the author has experienced these sensations from close range would be absolutely right. |