Management Speak

Hmmm. When you report a problem on the network, Im rather annoyed at just how long it takes for the problem to be sorted out. If you report loose slabs on the platform, it's still there three weeks later. Then someone places that red and white tape across it, which lasts seconds. I once reported part of the station canopy was hanging down at Hainault. it was still hanging down two months later. Is it too much trouble to get a ladder and a few nails and bash it back??? I'll never forget the written comments on the wall in a staff toilet: Management Suck! Someone else had written that four lettered word describing the male appendage.

I HATE the expression "Human Resources" It just shows that in managements eyes the staff are just another piece of equipment. "Personnel " is much better.

I thought management were known as penpushers...since thats all they seem to do these days. I was once offered a 'promotion' to an LSM. I rejected the offer, as I prefer the 'hands on' environment

I think it stands for Line Service Manager

No offense meant, but you are talking rubbish. These jobs are sought after and don't come up often as I believe there are only 9 LSMs on the combine. Line Standards Manager's are in charge of training and the quality of training on a line. Solidbond or Dave could possibly elaborate more on this. You wouldn't be offered an LSM job without applying along with many others. If you applied you would have seen on the application form the job title as Line Standards Manager, not Line Service Manager.

Am I the only manager grade who hardly ever uses management speak?

For me a simple "F**k off" does the trick, though it's hardly subtle.

Yep, I recal getting a text from you not so long ago with that very phrase

Refuse management receptacle = Dustbin
Street illuminatory standard = Lamp post
Public transport reception area = Bus stop
Public order enforcement operative = A Copper

I'm breaking the rules with a naughty word off, is dat auf german?

Managers of Public Services(?) like LUL and Royal Mail love their TLAs!!

Sorry, we're not services, we're businesses now

In Defra the acronyms arent' restricted to three letters.
My job title: RDA6
I have to deal with on a daily basis:
AESIS - Agri-Environment Scheme Information System
RADX - Regional Admin Data eXchange
CST - Customer Services Team / Classic Schemes Team (two different teams that do different but related things have the same acronym!)
BPD - Business Processing Division
ELS - Entry Level Scheme
OELS - Organic Entry Level Scheme
HLS - Higher Level Stewardship
ES - Environmental Stewardship
ESA - Environmentally Sensitive Areas
CSS - Coutnryside Stewardship Scheme
FEP - Farm Environment Plan
FER - Farm Environment Record
BAP - Biodiversity Action Plan
JCA - Joint Character Area
EN - English Nature
CA - Countryside Agency
EA - Environment Agency
WES - Wildlife Enhancement Scheme
SDT - Somerset and Dorset Team
SLM - Somerset Levels and Moors
SDIT - Strategic Delivery and Implementation Team
BSS - Buffer Strip Supplement
FYM - Farm Yard Manure (i.e. cow brown stuff!)
NPK - Nitrogen-Phosphate-Potash (a type of fertilizer, named for the chemical symbols for Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potasium)

Its a wonder I get to sepak any real words at times!

That's what comes from writing posts when you're basically asleep! Reading it again there are two errors in the last line of my post, what is the other one?

Or "arent'" (should be aren't, as the apostrophe replaces the letter 'o').

I also read on Tubeprune there used to be an LU grade of Assistant Rolling Stock Engineer .