| In a move aimed at making
Scotland's enterprise support more customer focussed, senior managers announced last week
that they were making a 'dynamic outplacement opportunity', otherwise known as jotters
time, available to 150 staff across the network. "Its only fitting" a senior manager explained, "that we take a
lead in stimulating entrepreneurial activity in Scotland, by offering this fantastic
chance for our own staff to take up the challenge of being paid off, applying for dole
money and starting up a wee business somewhere."
The "quick, let's sack people" strategy follows an
internal review of SE, ahead of Henry McCleish's planned shake up of the enterprise
network. "We've looked at best practise throughout the private sector. When faced by
an external threat, it is up to senior managers to sack as many of the little people as
possible. |
That way, you see, we look like
we're dynamic decision makers and we get to hang on to our jobs. Which is the whole object
of the exercise obviously." Savings made
will, SE sources insist, transform the organisation into a "customer facing"
entity - as opposed to the current situation where presumably SE staff run away and hide
when some poor bastard looking for money to buy a chip van has the temerity to cross the
threshold.
Senior managers are totally committed to the strategy which
will involve them travelling the world at public expense, producing a shiny brochure and
then changing their bloody minds again in about six months. |
