Westonman wrote:
Kremmen wrote:
I've been on many 'training courses' were the speaker will ask if anyone disagrees. No one wants to be singled out so there's a deathly hush. Unfortunately, like you, they forget that I'm there and if I disagree I tell them. Unlike your experience I've often been praised for speaking up because the incorrect view was tabled deliberately - yeah right !
The abuse I was subjected to on that one occasion was to be singled out as an out-cast, one who was unteachable. The course leader would say such things as, “Mr X would not agree with us, but...”. This was clearly an attempt by the 'leader' to join herself to the bulk of the group, and victimise me as an outsider in the process. This is classic Delphi Technique at work; you either fall-in-line with the planned mind-set change, or you suffer separation from the group and your peers. The process is similar to that once commonly practiced by trade unions; where the choice was, comply and follow the crowd, or face exclusion by being sent to Coventry.
The whole point about developing a plummy middle class accent is to lie for personal benefit. Look at the BBC, estate agents, the City, politicians, doctors. It is to cover up their failings and to imbue 'confidence' that they know what they are talking about. That is where the term 'confidence tricksters' comes from. If you hear it and they are trying to involve you in something, run a mile. Snake oil salesmen.
I have noticed down the years there is an inverse correlation between the gravity with which a BBC presenter talks and the degree to which he is either lying or doesn't know but is pretending.I've now extrapolated that to include apparent 'confidence' having seen many shysters in the world of work climb the greasy pole. Confidence and gravity, keep a watch out for them. They are key tools of the trade. And once you see it, they're everywhere.
Here is an example... How was this chap able to land a job paying £1000 a day in the public sector? Snakeoil that's how..
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An NHS chief has been sacked from his £250,000-a-year job after it was revealed that he is a convicted armed robber.
Craig Alexander was jailed after holding up a busy Tesco Express store at gunpoint in 2001 and threatening staff and customers before fleeing with almost £1,250 in cash and cheques.
On his release he lied about his three-and-a-half-year stint in prison and was hired for the senior post of interim borough director at NHS Brent, where he was in charge of multi-million-pound taxpayer-funded budgets.
By the time he was exposed, the 32-year-old had been handling the health service’s Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention programme in the north-west London borough for 17 months.
£250k per year @ 32.... and in the public sector..No wonder this Country is going down the tubes. How much does Cameron get?