Head of the documentation unit: Difference between revisions

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, and 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.

Running the [[doc unit]] is utterly thankless, not because of the negotiators — by and large 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.  

Therefore any efforts the person notionally in charge should make to fix things, however wise, will fail. These bright ideas will be co-opted, misinterpreted, forced through a sieve of business administration dogma and systematically brutalised until they are unrecognizable, unworkable, inexcusable, and yet inextricably associated with the [[head of the documentation unit]]. He — or she — is generally regarded as a dead man walking.