Comments on: It’s Respectember at your ABC http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:34:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Peter Cox http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-39111 Peter Cox Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:27:40 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-39111 Ian: I've worked for big free-enterprise companies. The last one had been amazingly wasteful (mainly at the top management levels) for years, and was taken over 6 years ago despite a remarkable and relatively sudden (compared to the years of continuous waste & self-interest at the highest levels) 4-year turn-around in fortunes that had occurred due to the influx of enthusiastic & quality-focussed leadership -a previously unknown concept at top levels of the firm. That is a preamble to saying I agree completely with the tenor of your comments - though perhaps your mob's turn-around may be in the future. I sincerely hope that one day the ABC's administration might match the ability & commitment of the staff. Perhaps the only difference (at a guess) is that your & my "lives of quiet desperation" at work, engendered by fighting with clouds for so long, would be that though I am sure the work was as challenging & satisfying for you as for me, my rewards for continuing to keep going on with the hard work were financially respectable, even at the middle levels where most of the actual management & guidance work in most firms gets done in a fashion that will [have a stab at] succeed[ing]. The real cash was made well above my head, and that I imagine we both share. Regards, and keep going. There is a large number of keen listeners out here in what would otherwise be a wasteland without the ABC. Ian:
I’ve worked for big free-enterprise companies. The last one had been amazingly wasteful (mainly at the top management levels) for years, and was taken over 6 years ago despite a remarkable and relatively sudden (compared to the years of continuous waste & self-interest at the highest levels) 4-year turn-around in fortunes that had occurred due to the influx of enthusiastic & quality-focussed leadership -a previously unknown concept at top levels of the firm.

That is a preamble to saying I agree completely with the tenor of your comments - though perhaps your mob’s turn-around may be in the future.

I sincerely hope that one day the ABC’s administration might match the ability & commitment of the staff.

Perhaps the only difference (at a guess) is that your & my “lives of quiet desperation” at work, engendered by fighting with clouds for so long, would be that though I am sure the work was as challenging & satisfying for you as for me, my rewards for continuing to keep going on with the hard work were financially respectable, even at the middle levels where most of the actual management & guidance work in most firms gets done in a fashion that will [have a stab at] succeed[ing].

The real cash was made well above my head, and that I imagine we both share.

Regards, and keep going. There is a large number of keen listeners out here in what would otherwise be a wasteland without the ABC.

]]> By: Venise Alstergren http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-39054 Venise Alstergren Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:13:09 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-39054 Ian: Twang. Or is it twing? Ian: Twang. Or is it twing?

]]> By: Ian Nicolson http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-39044 Ian Nicolson Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:34:05 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-39044 Venise. And mine that ALL organisations, private sector businesses included, constantly indulge in this often useless, sometimes quite productive tosh. Your knee-jerk against non-private spending on workplace relations (irrationally excluding the private sector's version) just twitched one more time. Venise. And mine that ALL organisations, private sector businesses included, constantly indulge in this often useless, sometimes quite productive tosh. Your knee-jerk against non-private spending on workplace relations (irrationally excluding the private sector’s version) just twitched one more time.

]]> By: Venise Alstergren http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-38999 Venise Alstergren Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:17:28 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-38999 Ian. My whole point was that I was using the ABC as a microcosm-if anything that large can be a microcosm-for all government and NGOs to squander everyones money. Ian. My whole point was that I was using the ABC as a microcosm-if anything that large can be a microcosm-for all government and NGOs to squander everyones money.

]]> By: Ian Nicolson http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-38974 Ian Nicolson Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:24:32 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-38974 Venise, if you can show me any large institution that doesn't use/waste either your tax dollars or the price you paid for something on a whole range of similar HR "initiatives" I'll accept your knee-jerk anti-Aunty response is a reasonable one . . . Kate, in answer to your rhetorical question, we can . . . and in many cases do . . . even at Poor Aunty. Usually its just that the rude <i>and</i>incompetent ones end up running the place and thus setting the tone. Bit like most comment forums, really . . . Venise, if you can show me any large institution that doesn’t use/waste either your tax dollars or the price you paid for something on a whole range of similar HR “initiatives” I’ll accept your knee-jerk anti-Aunty response is a reasonable one …

Kate, in answer to your rhetorical question, we can … and in many cases do … even at Poor Aunty. Usually its just that the rude andincompetent ones end up running the place and thus setting the tone.

Bit like most comment forums, really …

]]> By: wyane http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-37014 wyane Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:15:28 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-37014 Best FDotM eva ... well, since I've been subscribing. Oh, and I'm yet to read the ones from the 7th, 8th and 9th. And by "best" I'm only applying level and length of laughter criteria. So, actually, it may not be the "best". But it made me laugh. Is it too late to change your Walkley entry? BTW - there is no link to Friday's Daily email when I log in. Wanted to re-read those lovely patronising emails from Auntie Agatha or whatsername? Best FDotM eva … well, since I’ve been subscribing. Oh, and I’m yet to read the ones from the 7th, 8th and 9th. And by “best” I’m only applying level and length of laughter criteria. So, actually, it may not be the “best”. But it made me laugh.

Is it too late to change your Walkley entry?

BTW - there is no link to Friday’s Daily email when I log in. Wanted to re-read those lovely patronising emails from Auntie Agatha or whatsername?

]]> By: Venise Alstergren http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36645 Venise Alstergren Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:56:30 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36645 JANESHAW: Love your *Returns to beating head rythmically against floor*. JANESHAW: Love your *Returns to beating head rythmically against floor*.

]]> By: acannon http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36623 acannon Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:52:23 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36623 LOVE F*ckofftober! How many of us can convince our workplaces to (probably unofficially) take up the cause? LOVE F*ckofftober! How many of us can convince our workplaces to (probably unofficially) take up the cause?

]]> By: alanjohnston http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36607 alanjohnston Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:09:38 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36607 I want to die too. I want to die too.

]]> By: Carol Bruce http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36593 Carol Bruce Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:39:04 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36593 Absolutely brilliant! Cannot wait for Fuckofftober!!! lol lol Absolutely brilliant! Cannot wait for Fuckofftober!!! lol lol

]]> By: kate http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36590 kate Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:27:33 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36590 Oh get over yourself Venise. Sure, it's totally silly and patronising, and completely deserves Firstdog's classic pisstaking, but it's hardly an egregious waste of taxpayers's money, and certainly not a hanging offence or worth fleeing to Argentina in protest. A few emails, a couple of posters, and several hours of "People's" time who probably weren't doing much constructive anyway. Whaddeva. And why can't we have polite AND efficient? Oh get over yourself Venise.

Sure, it’s totally silly and patronising, and completely deserves Firstdog’s classic pisstaking, but it’s hardly an egregious waste of taxpayers’s money, and certainly not a hanging offence or worth fleeing to Argentina in protest. A few emails, a couple of posters, and several hours of “People’s” time who probably weren’t doing much constructive anyway. Whaddeva.

And why can’t we have polite AND efficient?

]]> By: Venise Alstergren http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36578 Venise Alstergren Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:58:41 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36578 Suddenly I've lost my sense of humour. Those mongrels, the ABC, are spending OUR money on minutae like the above mentioned crap? No, not the t-shirt Fd, those bastards are having internal 'happygrams' at the tax-payer's expense? I would rather have a rude staffer who does an efficient job, than a polite one who fucks-up everything. This time, I am going to live in Argentina. Suddenly I’ve lost my sense of humour. Those mongrels, the ABC, are spending OUR money on minutae like the above mentioned crap? No, not the t-shirt Fd, those bastards are having internal ‘happygrams’ at the tax-payer’s expense?
I would rather have a rude staffer who does an efficient job, than a polite one who fucks-up everything.

This time, I am going to live in Argentina.

]]> By: mtats http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36575 mtats Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:53:54 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36575 Kudos Firstdog, kudos. Immediately printing it out and posting in office. Unless thats a copyright thing, which if it is, i'm not. Kudos Firstdog, kudos.

Immediately printing it out and posting in office. Unless thats a copyright thing, which if it is, i’m not.

]]> By: paddy http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36573 paddy Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:50:54 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36573 I don't know if it's just the season FD. But by God you're on a roll!!!! An absolute Classic. :-) :-) I don’t know if it’s just the season FD.
But by God you’re on a roll!!!!
An absolute Classic. :-) :-)

]]> By: Richard Schipper http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36571 Richard Schipper Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:30:45 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36571 On the first day of Respectember my manager gave to me a consultant's view of proper thinking ways... On the second day of Respectember my manager gave to me a platitude in a PowerPoint slide... On the third day of Respectember my manager gave to me a twitter message on the world - wide - web ... On the first day of Respectember my manager gave to me a consultant’s view of proper thinking ways…
On the second day of Respectember my manager gave to me a platitude in a PowerPoint slide…
On the third day of Respectember my manager gave to me a twitter message on the world - wide - web
…

]]> By: kate http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36565 kate Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:16:38 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36565 FIRST DOG RULEZ! FIRST DOG RULEZ!

]]> By: JaneShaw http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36560 JaneShaw Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:01:42 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36560 I saw this tweet while waiting on hold with the hell-spawn at Optus as I try to explain (again) that I want to have wireless internet access. Thank you First Dog. *returns to beating head rhythmically against floor* I saw this tweet while waiting on hold with the hell-spawn at Optus as I try to explain (again) that I want to have wireless internet access.

Thank you First Dog.

*returns to beating head rhythmically against floor*

]]> By: Perry Gretton http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36559 Perry Gretton Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:57:59 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36559 Superlatives fail me. Superlatives fail me.

]]> By: Joal http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36554 Joal Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:25:40 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-394/#comment-36554 We missed "You Are All Idiots Week?" Aw, man! We missed “You Are All Idiots Week?” Aw, man!

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