Civil Service Pensions - Capita staff comments

StewedApple

There's a report in Computer Weekly on internal staff comments about management platitudes - not good news but reflects internal tensions:-

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366648014/Capita-CEO-receives-scathing-rebuttal-from-employee-over-botched-contract

hugheskevi

This link might help if you can't view the full article at the link above.

horsewithnoname

what a shower of ….

xylophone

The spokesperson added: “We continue to work at pace to resolve the operational issues ……..

Snail and tortoise come to mind?😀

QrizB

"At pace" seems to be fairly recent bit of newspeak to pervade Government. I've seen it used a few times.

It's meaningless.

Aylesbury_Duck

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82094756#Comment_82094756

Along with "laser-like focus".

horsewithnoname

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82094756#Comment_82094756

like most of the guff that is “management speak”. At least “open kimono policy” seems to have gone out of fashion 🙄

ali_bear

As soon as I hear the word "overarching" I know that the idiots have been in charge for some time

horsewithnoname

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82094979#Comment_82094979

I honestly don’t know why they speak like that. Do they think it sounds more impressive or something, or is just that they know they are talking !!!!!!, and it would be more obvious if the spoke normall? 😂

Edit: Seriously! The word “Stones” is censored! Refer to Professor Kinsley at a certain obscenity trial in 1977

Never heard of context?

MyRealNameToo

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82095123#Comment_82095123

Why use a whole sentence when one word can deal with it? Overarching to me makes perfect sense and I'd much prefer it to "guiding lights" or some other catch phrase to describe something that goes over everything but is high level in nature and needs interpretation for individual application in a specific circumstance

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82094714#Comment_82094714

So you'd back the hare over the tortoise? Thought we all knew how that story ended.

xylophone

Thought we all knew how that story ended.

I do indeed know the fable but it doesn't change the fact that the tortoise is not exactly Speedy Gonzales…..😊