From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Richard Smith"  wrote in message news:m1ikh0xtpk.fsf@void.com...   
      
   I don't want to be "funny" or anything, but...   
   Regarding the situation here in Britain, you don't even start to bring   
   into focus the magnitude of the problem.   
   That article   
   https://unmudl.com/employers/blog/employers-struggling-to-acquir   
   -technician-talent   
   - attributes it to a narrow "supply and demand mismatch".   
   You don't get any inference of the massive mess-up in society which is   
   the overall structure of what's gone wrong.   
   I lack eloquence to do this, but I'll try. ...   
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   I post here for practice to correct a severe deficiency of eloquence. I   
   don't think in only one dimension but text has to be.   
      
   Usually I positioned myself to be where the actual work was, but when money   
   dried up due to a recession or the yearly end>restart gap of the US budget   
   process I saw people retreat into the survival positions you described while   
   society coasted downhill on the dwindling surpluses of the past. My model is   
   rats climbing over each other to be the last to drown when the ship sinks. I   
   don't have the experience to write much about it because I purposely avoided   
   the meetings and complications by remaining a technician (with overtime)   
   while doing an engineer's design work. When the layoff came I cut firewood   
   for free winter heat and caught up on neglected house and car maintenance.   
      
   https://remote.com/blog/global-hr/types-organizational-structure   
   Mostly I experienced the small company's lean efficiency of a "flatocracy",   
   under stress the company might morph into the others for self-protection or   
   because ageing or less productive engineers forced into management without   
   training may not do as well with people as with things.   
      
   My father jumped from accountant to deputy commissioner and CFO of a state   
   government agency. He took management classes and then tried to explain what   
   he'd learned while I listened with apparent concern. My take-away was that I   
   have no talent for or interest in joining management. I do try to at least   
   learn something of what I know I'm not naturally good at.   
      
   Theatre provided exposure to a director's methods of management and   
   motivation that I wouldn't see among independently self motivated scientists   
   and engineers. The musical "A Chorus Line" is a good demonstration of the   
   good cop/bad cop or carrot and stick approach.   
   https://trainingmag.com/how-to-handle-employees-using-the-good-c   
   p-bad-cop-strategy/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)