Stages of War;PLANNING:
RM spends the covid years strategizing and preparing detailed plans on how to bring about major restructuring, while also permanently removing the influence of employee representatives (CWU).
External advisors and consultants are recruited with war time experience to assist in the 'gaming' activities around the various battle strategies.
PREPARATIONS:
The troops, (managers) are restructured with new roles, responsibilities and reward packages so that they are equipped to engage in hostilities.
Managers unfit or unwilling for combat,
receive redundancy.
To bolster morale and to ward of any difficulties with their conscience, managers are given the mantra, Our business to Run, to recite secretly and behind closed doors during hostilities.
PREPARING THE GROUND:
Workplace is set up for communication and propaganda activities for the chosen team.
Special dividends are deliberately given to shareholders to compensate them for the difficult war year ahead.
An assurance is also given that the gravy train would return as soon as possible when the war was over.
Share buy back is also carried out to ensure finances are in a desperate condition and employees demands can be portrayed as unreasonable, unnecessary and unjustifiable.
INITIAL CONTACT:
Hostilities commence at an appropriate time, ie when austerity and economic hardship should weaken the resolve of the enemy - employees.
First contact with the enemy representatives (CWU) provides an ideal opportunity to humiliate, demolarise and antagonise the enemy.
Each and every opportunity is taken during initial contact and negotiations to inflame the situation, so that a predetermined strategy can come into place.
HOSTILITIES:
Employees are constantly demonised on formats such as Workplace and regarded and portrayed as unreasonable, idle and overpaid.
Full use is made of auxiliaries and mercenaries.
Targeted attacks are carried out on key CWU personnel, to create anxiety and fear among the enemy - employees.
The term TEAM is used as a weapon to create division and identify those individuals who are not on message, and thereby considered 'lesser' and subsequently treated accordingly.
No quarter is given during hostilities and every opportunity is taken to maximize the financial and psychological pain on the enemy - employees.
Further reward is provided to managers(troops) to bolster morale while they carry out their many inexcusable activities.
PEACE:
The person who has worked beside me for over 30 years is no longer there, his duty is gone, and as he was to become a reserve, he is also gone.
His frame is dumped in the yard, as a very visible and deliberate reminder to the rest of us that we are considered 'lesser', and it is still their business to run.