FROM the dawn of consciousness, the vast majority of human kind have laboured under the pearl of wisdom that if one finds one's self to be riding a dead horse, then, the best thing to do is to dismount and hence refrain from the futile exercise of flogging the poor demised beast.
However, from your front page article (July 10), regarding the NHS employing an advisor to inform employees on the best way to attend for work, one is left wondering if at this very moment in time, senior NHS managers are getting together a series of
strategies, regarding precisely how a dead horse can be motivated to be more efficient and effective. Namely by:
- Buying a stronger whip.
- Changing riders.
- Appointing a committee to study the horse.
- Undertaking a productivity study in order to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
- Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses.
- Re-classifying the dead horse as 'living impaired'.
- Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
- Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, then it is less costly and hence carries lower overheads and thus can be tolerated.
Meanwhile, one is left to wonder how all these self-appointed 'high calibre' candidates get into the extravagantly paid jobs that they do in the first place and actually not only keep them but get promptly promoted.
Michael Parker, Robertshaw Crescent, DeepcarREAD MOREYour letters.
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