Archive for June, 2006
Skate Parks
An Inverleith resident enquires
their is currently a debate going on with regards to the construction of a skate park in Inverleith Park. This is to replace the pitch and put that has not been used for years. People are complaining as this will not serve the local community and will ruin the enjoyment for those using it just now. Are we missing a point here in the fact that we should be broadening the appeal of the park or are some of the residents right in demanding the status quo is maintained.
One pearl of wisdom on “Skate Parks”
Provide common sense...
State of the Union
From a cosmopolitan consulter
How can we trust the European commission to run the European Union ? I ask
because, on a recent visit to a European commission building, they displayed a
remarkable lack of basic competence. For example, I was almost not admitted to
the building because office A has no record of a request made, by email, by
office B. I have seen this e-mail, and know it was sent. However,, due to
incompetence in office A, office C who actually use the information forwarded to
them by A could do nothing, because they only deal with office A, and not office
B.This is a simple thing - e-mail from person one to person
two,resulting in an action at person 3. And yet they could not manage it. No
wonder the EU is slightly shambolic.
4 lacklustre pieces of inspiration on “State of the Union”
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Anonymous Says:
June 14th, 2006 at 3:46 pmoi cut em some slack - they are after all better than the americans
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June 14th, 2006 at 5:09 pmDear anon,
You may have a point, and they do make better wine, but i need some proof please.
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June 14th, 2006 at 6:27 pmDear Anon yourself! oh come on everyone knows the bigger an organisation the easier it is for folk to avoid doing work. At the moment all companies are getting bigger and bigger and surviving through economies of scale. In time this will be their failing. the british empire, the roman one, marconi are to name but a few things that grew and grew and then just collapsed. The american system is one very large country as is the chinese but the european model is based on a true federal system and this model will ensure that each block is strong and allow for weak blocks to be repaired without the whole thing coming down. Please do not see the brussels EU as the whole thing, it is but a pretty head to a hard working body.
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June 15th, 2006 at 8:22 amDear Peter Mandelson,
You are a real fan of Schuman!
Does fat = lazy ?
There is no doubt that the bigger and more secure the organisation, the less insecure are jobs for the individuals employed, and that there are plenty of examples of those in secure jobs being sloppy (just look at the UK Home Office). However, it is no excuse for plain and simple incompitence. This is the Common Sense Consultancy, and common sense says that you will be even more efficient if you stop incompitence within your organisation. You will also be more appealing to customers. I would like to include the EC in this statement as we are all customers of the EC (whether we like it or not). However, the re is little consumer choice in this case !
And that may bring me to another rant….
Provide common sense...
Pyramid banker
From a recently imprisoned banker
I recently tried to make money out of the RBS by taking out loans in other peoples names and then paying them off with further loans. Can you suggest a way I could not have ended up in prison other than not doing the whole scam in the first place?
One pearl of wisdom on “Pyramid banker”
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June 9th, 2006 at 10:20 amYou got what you deserved. You worked in finance, and got paid loads for doing it, so just stop being greedy you selfish thicko.
June 23rd, 2006 at 10:56 am
Common sense suggests 3 things:
1/ People will always complain about change
2/ Skate parks generally never work because skaters are anti-establishment, and skate parks are put there by the establishment
3/ Skaters in that part of Edinburgh ? I don’ think so - awffie posh and all that.