'Trouble. Several new product lines are delayed,' writes Ed in his diary, I'm going to kick ass on this one. I'm calling a special general managers' meeting.
Next day, Ed's diary entry reads: 'General managers' meeting to discuss product delays. I give them a tough warning: "Heads will roll on this one".'
'Unusually, it's Somervell Gresham, Co-Founder and COO, who breaks the silence,' writes Ed.
'"Remember when you sacked Pat Cook (co-founder and CTO) back in November?"'
'"Yes".'
'"And then the analogue design team walked out?"'
'"Yes'."
'And you could hardly get anyone decent to replace them?"'
'"Yes".'
'"Then what did you do?"'
'I outsourced some of the low-level design work to
'"Exactly Ed, now half of that company's designers have walked out because there's a mass of money chasing designers out there, and a lot of our work has been stopped."'
'"Can't we sue 'em?"'
'"Yes, but that doesn't get our new product programme back on track", replies
'So," adds
'Little sod', writes Ed, 'still there are only 46 days to go to the IPO and then I'm outa here with my pockets bulging with bunce.'
I might be mistaken, but is Ed so keen to the IPO he is starting to reuse his alliteration?
You are absolutely right, Edward, Ed has used bunce six times before and the experession 'pockets bulging with bunce' twice before - and all of them quite recently - 26/7, 28/6, 14/6, 24/5, 17/5 and 12/4. It's propbably the result of him getting increasingly obsessional about getting rich but, subconsciously, Ed may have been relating to bankers' bonuses - very much in the news at the moment - because bunce is supposed to be a derivation of the latin word 'bonus'.
Must be an educated fella that Ed, if he can use latin derivations for his slang.
Shame his education didn't extend to technology management.
Yes, Stooriefit, Ed's education was sadly delinquent - a head filled with irrelevant learning, an inflated sense of entitlement and disdain for other people. I think that's why he wanted to become a manager.
In all fairness, the title should have been "Ed hits sourcing problems". Let's face it - outsourcing or in-sourcing, good resources are always scarce. Here comes FTM's law for HR - the product of experience, competence and availability is a constant. Note that I leave out cost, because that is of secondary importance.
I used to work with someone like Ed (would be manager) and one day I snapped. In front of the entire production engineering team I told him he was prime management material. His chest swelled as he puffed up with his own self importance. After a short delay I added the rider that I had a large pile of management material on my allotment:-). Instant deflation!
Nicely put, Dr Bob