There are more meetings tomorrow about next year. These will be doom and gloom meetings that seem to do nothing more than demoralise my colleagues and I.
It never ceases to amaze me that management have failed to learn the lessons of industry, that if you sell it short you will sell yourself into oblivion. That is why ‘new management’ rhetoric is so upbeat, even when the waters are lapping around their feet on the deck of a sinking ship. The theory goes, there is always some hope until the water covers your nose. Not it seems in HE, where doom and gloom reigns supreme.
I will attempt to inject a modicum of sanity into the proceedings, but I suspect it will just be ignored as is usually is – at least for a year.
I found out last week that an idea I had put forward a year ago as necessary for the new fees regime, but had had rejected as a waste of time, has now been ‘reinvented’ by my head as their own idea and put forward at a meeting I was not invited to attend!
In some ways I am flattered that my idea has found currency at last. However, it would have been nice to have had my contribution acknowledged.
As it was not, I decided to remind them of my prescience.
Silence ensued.
I did not get a reply. I do not expect one, but just maybe next time I will be listened to?
