Beeky wrote:
> On 23 Nov 2009, at 16:14, roger_millin extracted from his CV:
>
> > worked for a brief period for Lister at Dursley (it was a very brief
> > aberration)
>
> It may have been a brief aberration for you but, sadly, they never got
> over it {;>)
That was exactly my point. Having arrived there as a contract engineer where
one of my functions was to look at Lister's methods with a fresh eye, I rapidly
realised that it was a company (and employees) set in its/their ways. It also
gave the strong appearance of going rapidly downhill.
It took me about 2.5 months to realise that it had no long term future so I got
out by the end of the fourth. My chief engineer did the same soon after, and my
manager left for Isuzu about the same time. Sure enough, the company went down
the pan not too long afterwards. It was a shame but the 'We've always done it
this way' attitude of some of the work force and the inept very senior
management meant that its fate was sealed IMO.
Roger
