Are bosses good managers?

That's the question being posed at work recently. All staff have been divided into project teams to help out the partners on this major management restructure project.

Scary topics such as firm vision, culture, values, internal processes are being pulled apart to reveal the inefficiencies that are in existence. Do they really exist? What are our inefficiencies? Why are people dissatisfied and leaving on mass?

I did some reflection late last year, and counted that it's been one person per month since I've been here, that has left the firm. (Who knows, maybe in yet another 3 years I'll be the longest serving staff member...AGAIN) So that makes it 12 people.
But namely those that have left are younger graduates or undergrads still at uni.
Apparently this is the norm, especially in our country with a shortage of bean counters, therefore we're in hot demand!!

But honestly, the poor grads and undergrads get given the brainless tasks of letters, simple tax returns, and if jobs are running extremely low, even filing and photocopying. That is considering we already have admin staff with a shortage of work, plus a full-time filing clerk.

I have noticed though, that within the accounting profession, especially public practice, that there are ten million ways in doing the same task to reach the same outcome. Why can't there be uniformity here???? However, the following joke does touch on a smidgen on uniformity:

Why did the accountants cross the road?
Because they looked in the file and that was what they did last year.

Until next time

Okay, feeling a bit bleary-eyed this morning but with good measure- We won the 2006 ODI series!

I was thinking my observations of this game would be similar to my January experience. Despite there being 10,000 less people there last night compared to January's game, did not mean a thing.

The smaller the crowd, the more rowdy they are. (unless it's really that the hard-core fans are the rowdy ones with no full-time jobs, or chucking a sickie from work. EDIT: I was good and went AFTER work)

Anyway, to the game....

1) It was made known that the the mexican wave is not permitted at the ground, and anyone caught instigating it would be immediately evicted. To say the least, some evictions took place and the rest of the crowd decided to keep it going and going, so it wouldn't stop. Hence no need to instigate it!

2) Being Valentines Day, a few banners were strategically placed around the ground by:

Males ditching their female counterparts for the game:
Sorry hon, we'll do dinner next year.

Ribbing the Sri Lankan team's defeat in the last game:
Roses are Red, Violets are Blue
Look out Murali, Roy's after you.

Hey Murali, reckon u can make a ton. How about it? 0 for 100.

And those with no relevance to the game whatsoever:
Hi Tokyo, Wombat Cricket Club.

3) A partially-clad man then raced onto the field and was crash-tackled by a security guard in spectacular fashion, and then cheered as he was taken away to a nice prison cell.

4) The game was halted for a few moments due to the mexican wave starting again, and rubbish being pelted onto the playing field. Whilst ground staff dealt with this, the Sri Lankan physio decided to play impromptu sprinter/cricket clown by racing out onto the field, giving a player a rub-down and then racing back and doing a well-executed leap over the fence into the player's area.

5) Murali being chanted at by the crowd to come back to the out-field to be abused for no-balls and general lack of bowling skill. (come back Murali, come back!)

And special mention must be made to our Andy 'Roy' Symonds for winning Player of the Series.

Yay! Yay! Yay!

Have just purchased tickets for the 3rd and deciding ODI final for this summer between Australia and Sri Lanka!!!!!!

Will post my observations of this game a little later.

Go Roy!