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“The machines are coming, and we will soon be [[out of a job]]. But I will hang on as long as I can, and hopefully see out to retirement.” | “The machines are coming, and we will soon be [[out of a job]]. But I will hang on as long as I can, and hopefully see out to retirement.” | ||
===The pain of work for the sake of it=== | |||
On the other hand, who has not felt the following: | On the other hand, who has not felt the following (we should note the JC is coming around to the view, after nearly three decades in the city, that ''most'' people have not felt the following): | ||
“This process is ludicrous. It adds no value. It wastes everybody’s time, and creates hours of unnecessary paperwork. While we waste our time on this, something genuinely serious could blow up, we will be blamed because we didn’t anticipate it, and we’ll all be [[out of a job]]. But there are too many vested interests for it to ever change.” | “This process is ludicrous. It adds no value. It wastes everybody’s time, and creates hours of unnecessary paperwork. While we waste our time on this, something genuinely serious could blow up, we will be blamed because we didn’t anticipate it, and we’ll all be [[out of a job]]. But there are too many vested interests for it to ever change.” | ||
“These documents are far too complicated. Even the lawyers who negotiate them don’t understand them, and the operations teams wouldn’t have a clue. There is a real risk of operational failure because no-one understands what is going on, and if that happens we will all be [[out of a job]], but there is no appetite to spend even a small amount of time or money to fix it: we don’t have the bandwidth are too busy keeping the manual processes going.” | “These documents are far too long and complicated. Even the [[lawyers]] who negotiate them don’t understand them, and the operations teams wouldn’t have a clue. There is a real risk of operational failure because no-one understands what is going on, and if that happens we will all be [[out of a job]], but there is no appetite to spend even a small amount of time or money to fix it: we don’t have the bandwidth are too busy keeping the manual processes going.” | ||
“We can’t manage this risk properly because our systems are archaic, they don’t talk to each other, the process is far too manual and we spend all our time on the defensive and handling operational risk incidents. If something blows up we will be [[out of a job]], but we have no mandate to fix it.” | “We can’t manage this risk properly because our systems are archaic, they don’t talk to each other, the process is far too manual and we spend all our time on the defensive and handling operational risk incidents. If something blows up we will be [[out of a job]], but we have no mandate to fix it.” | ||