The Emperor's New clothes

nthclare

What's your modern interpretation of the old fable ?

Consultant's hired by big companies is a good one....

Spending thousands of Euro's on consultants who haven't the common sense of a leaving cert engineering student.

Engineering consultants who go around a site asking the guy who's raking the leaves why there's a build up of water in certain areas of a park, and basically they're the engineer's who are paid thousands to solve the problem.

Saint aul fella raking the leaves explains the problem in layman's terms and the engineer goes back to the office and type's it up in technical terms, gets paid handsomely for something the old guy could have told his employer's already....

It's going on all over the place.

You can't beat the wisdom of the quite guy who's been somewhere for years and seen management come and go and he's still tipping away...

And no I'm not that old guy raking leaves and resentful at management.....

topper75

Many are telling us that we can control the average temp of planet earth by paying more taxes to Leo.

branie2

Politicians who think they know it all

Ush1

"Project managers".

Their skills seem to be creating massive email threads and being able to use Microsoft Excel?

Woke Hogan

nthclare wrote: »

What's your modern interpretation of the old fable ?

Consultant's hired by big companies is a good one....

Spending thousands of Euro's on consultants who haven't the common sense of a leaving cert engineering student.

Engineering consultants who go around a site asking the guy who's raking the leaves why there's a build up of water in certain areas of a park, and basically they're the engineer's who are paid thousands to solve the problem.

Saint aul fella raking the leaves explains the problem in layman's terms and the engineer goes back to the office and type's it up in technical terms, gets paid handsomely for something the old guy could have told his employer's already....

It's going on all over the place.

You can't beat the wisdom of the quite guy who's been somewhere for years and seen management come and go and he's still tipping away...

And no I'm not that old guy raking leaves and resentful at management.....

Older lads who never had the chances younger people have love to make out that they really know what's going on or they "tell it like it is" simply because they're resentful that they couldn't get an education and had to spend thirty years raking leaves.

stratowide

I'd come from a mechanical/maintenance background where you'd see supervising engineer's come and go fairly frequently.
An old timer once told me when a new boss would start to..

"Break the boss before you break his orders".

Sage advice.

bucketybuck

There is a reason that guy is raking leaves.

jiltloop

All of the big companies jumping on the LGBT Pride wagon because it's good for their image.

They should be called out on their blatant marketeering, guaranteed they couldn't give 2 fecks about gay pride.

Fr_Dougal

Cloud computing.

nthclare

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Older lads who never had the chances younger people have love to make out that they really know what's going on or they "tell it like it is" simply because they're resentful that they couldn't get an education and had to spend thirty years raking leaves.

He rakes leaves in the fall, and look's after the gardens and plant's for the rest of the time when he's not raking leaves.

He graduated from the Botanic gardens 40 year's ago, so I'd say he's not resentful at some dim pup with a few years out of college...

Retires in a few years and, managed a lot of park's and historical garden's....

All that glitters aint gold Kid

Murph76

Before we apply the story to our age, maybe we should first discuss what its about exactly

IMO the story is about a common false believe that is created out of the fear of being wrong. Then, this believe is easily shattered once confronted, but, the thing is, no one confronts it.

Here's a link to the story

Borris Johnson talking about being plucky presenting himself as he a heroic Tommy from the first world war getting one over on Johnny foreigner although he would have been an officer more likely.

It amazing the amount of people who fell for it.

Force Carrier

mariaalice wrote: »

Borris Johnson talking about being plucky presenting himself as he a heroic Tommy from the first world war getting one over on Johnny foreigner although he would have been an officer more likely.

It amazing the amount of people who fell for it.

Jeremy Vine's Boris story is good if you haven't heard it.