That's early nineties all that American management , I believe the idea was everything had to be simple enough for a complete novice to understand . We had all that nonsense in a now privatized and fragmented industry .bandit650 wrote:You have got it in one norbert he is a self publisist and yes what has happened with us has alot of common factors with the asda factor,why he and others think that the american way is soooo good to work with you want to hear my friend that is still stuck at asda after very many years in retail she was with key market first then it was bought out by gateway then asda came in and she said its got worse as its gone on.
The problem was a lot of that stuff should have been taken metaphorically not literally , so the trend was Outward Bound Courses , Firewalks etc .
We had a Auditor and Salaried Staff Union rep that used to come round , he used to carry all the press cuttings round where the union reps and activists had shopped the Area Manager and his harebrained "ideas" to the papers . He kept saying "that b****y lunatic" and it was a sackable offence to tell tales to the paper .
Pity that AM didn't have a "Accident " in the Lake District on the 12hr Sunday Outward Bound Course @ Time X 75% -"We appear to have lost a Dwarf !" -We could have a wake for him in a phone box .
Somebody put a few links on here , he got absolutely roasted when he did a interview for the Church Times ( Religious Al thread ) , he parroted out rubbish about going to church on Sunday because Walmart is a neo-con , southern christian company .
Then there was stuff about the Bar Code Blitz party at Leeds , all WW2 music , people in army uniforms WTF? , cardboard bombs etc . What a Wa***r! :lfo :lfo .
Sam Walmart had a unfortunate accident when his Microlight plane crashed into a Telegraph pole
-couldn't have happened to a nicer person !
