The one-day strike by BBC staff this past Monday in support of the proposed hacking of their numbers bit deeper than the official line would have us believe. THIS piece from today's Herald tells it like it is.
This may not be rock 'n' roll but never lose sight of the fact that todays "management strategies" are loaded toward taking away your livelihood. It's heartening to see that some people are still prepared to make a sacrifice for the common good. At least the people who work for this UK Institution are up for retaining standards.
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You must be joking. Have you ever had any direct dealings with the BBC? The overmanning there is laughable. (Compare it to C4 - the difference is incredible). Obviously I appreciate that nobody wants to lose their job but by the same token the status quo is completely indefensible. Why should our taxes (which is what the license fee effectively is) perpetuate this farce? No other workplaces get such cushy treatment so why on earth should the BBC?
Yeah, actually I have and while the place might be admin and top heavy, the people at the "coal face" don't actually have it so cushy. At least not in Glasgow. In my experience, it's the cutters that need the cutting and the BBC staff have stood up to them, irrespective of how futile that action turns out to be. My dealings with the BBC here have displayed certain efficiencies long considered obsolete. I might be deluded in wanting to retain that kernel of quality within the organisation but there y'go. By all means remove all the management dead weight. That's where the big savings are to be had. Not in the front line.
(the link has got a comma after www - should be a full stop)
I agree with Lindsay - Glasgow is a lean mean broadcasting machine, with a bunch of people there who love music and are totally committed to putting out informative entertaining shows, but there's plenty people in London fannying about with focus groups and corporate identity who think that they are making a difference when all they are doing is burning OUR money.
There are plenty of people all over the place, not just at the BBC, who are "carried" by their co-workers. During the recent cull at my workplace, several people who I would consider to put in a decent days work got the chop. The pee-hee'ers and charlatans (in the main) got away scot-free.
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