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See also the [[Northern Ireland portfolio|Secretary of State for Northern Ireland]] in the | ''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, 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 | 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 | 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. | ||
Readers who sense that the author has experienced these sensations from close range would be absolutely right. | |||
Seen through the different prisms of the [[self-perpetuating autocracy]], this is what the documentation unit means: | Seen through the different prisms of the [[self-perpetuating autocracy]], this is what the documentation unit means: |