Originally Posted by
Moonstone1234
So I have worked for two very large corporates over the years. Both worked without any leeway around staffing. In one it involved people doing more and more and often people not being replaced. The other one resulted in me being asked on my days off to come in to ‘cover’ for sickness, compassionate reasons, or just because you were known to be efficient. It happened every single week. After a while I realised that they were trying to run both companies on a shoe string.
Yes, we can blame Covid, the wind, the traffic etc but sometimes it’s just because the bean counters would prefer to run it like this.
Yes - there is so much to be said for this – when I started at the BBC in the 1980s, thete were almost spare people for every possible task in case of last-minute sickness or other emergency. Let’s ensure that all programmes were broadcast with the usual professionalism. When I left in 1999, this had all finished and we were all running around like blue-arsed flies if the shift was even one person down. I’m sure everyone can see and hear how standards have plummeted as corners have been cut. so sad