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Stepney moves in Ferrari reshuffle
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Re: Stepney moves in Ferrari reshuffle -
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There's some additional info here: http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/formulaone/33631/ Sounds like he's been in HR only a short time. Kerry |
Hammond's.
pete
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On 23 Feb, 15:08, "Paul-B" <p... (AT) rasf1 (DOT) net> wrote: Hell and High Water wrote: In article <4043b4-3qh1.... (AT) stratos (DOT) fenelon.com>, p... (AT) fenelon (DOT) com says... Anand Nene <anandnNOS... (AT) gmx (DOT) net> wrote: Former head of human resources Mario Almondo has been made the new technical director, Oh splendid - make an HR corporate trouser limpet into the technical director. That's Ferrari fucked then - the average HR onanist couldn't find his arse with both hands. Ferrari is sounding very 1992/3, musical chairs and organisational chaos. Don't worry! Kimi can rally everyone around him, the natural leader that he is.... Never was, never will be (and that applies to DWC, too). Either you and Phil just had a humour bypass or you've been well and truly whooshed... Interesting stuff this though. It seems to me that: a) Nigel thought he deserved to be promoted to fill Ross's size 12s; |
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2) He's fallen out in a major way with Mario/Luca and there's no way he's going to work for "that arsehole"; and/or iii) He agrees with Pete and most of the rest of the human race about HR people in general... Whatever, it's looking increasingly like Ferrari are about to fuck themselves. Shame that... Mclaren lost the brainpower behind their cars (Newey, Prodromou and |
position right now despite this. Losing a guy who is probably best
remembered suffering a broken leg while tanking Punter's car seems not
so dramatic in comparison. Let's not blow this out of proportion.
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Phil Newnham <pnewn... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote: I was assuming that Bob was bemoaning the lack of Herr Schumacher, and not the lack of Ross Brawn, or the promotion of an HR guy (who, incidentally, may or may not have an engineering background - we should be told). You can't be much of an engineer if you willingly move downwards into HR - that's an occupation reserved for bovine, dim-witted upper-middle-class Home Counties female Geography graduates (usually called Zara, Zarah, Sara...) who draw florid and very bad pictures of stallions, read abominable chick-lit on the Tube, tend to become "a little squiffy" on two glasses of Chardonnay and think of themselves as "a little bit wacky, a little bit Ally, a little bit Bridget, a little bit Sex in the City", and tend to become faintly orgasmic at the thought of vampire lust and shoes. Death is sadly far too good for them. Yet they can fuck your career with the same ease with which they allow themselves to be shagged by rugger buggers. |
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The function of HR is to keep employees working as cheaply as possible. The function of workers is to attempt to thwart HR at every possible opportunity. pete -- p... (AT) fenelon (DOT) com "it made about as much sense as a polythene sandwich" |
hilarious posts followed by Doc and Tony. Their old racing trivia and
stories are great. Pete really has a low tolerance for corporate
stooges and spammers. ;-)
My guess is Brawn and Schumacher ruled the roost at Ferrari followed
by Rory Byrne. Brawn and Byrne made Schumi. Is Byrne still at the
Scuderia? Once Ross is gone, they are back to Machevellian Ferrari
and probably chaos. Tody and Luca will not be able to hold it
together. My guess is Ross was an imposing force you did not cross.
Sort of like Darth Vader with spectacles.
Poor Kimi. I would have made sure that Brawn was staying before
making the jump. Kimi would have been better off at Renault. I fear
hugely talented Kimi will never reach his potential because the mega $
$ Ferrari waved at him. Sort of reminds me of Alesi fateful decsion
not to go to Williams.
Alonso is very smart, mature, well managed and an incredibly rounded
young driver. Kimi is blindingly fast and talented but the edge goes
to Alonso.
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by Rory Byrne. Brawn and Byrne made Schumi. Is Byrne still at the Scuderia? |
beach in Thailand where he has an amazingly beautiful young wife
who's also a gourmet cook.
Every year they have to pile absolute shitloads of money up in front of
him to persuade him to come back for a bit. Eventually he'll just say he
can't be bothered - and can you blame him?
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Alonso is very smart, mature, well managed and an incredibly rounded young driver. Kimi is blindingly fast and talented but the edge goes to Alonso. |
Lapierre, (spit) Piquet...) - there's a good crowd of drivers on the way
up.
F1 needs a serious technical kick up the behind, but it looks like there
could be more good drivers out there than for a long time over the next
few years.
Once the tuggers (Barrichello, Trulli, Fisichella, R Schumacher) are
pensioned off things might start getting interesting.
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Rosberg, Kovalainen, Hamilton, Kubica (and on the way up, Vettel, Premat, Lapierre, (spit) Piquet...) - there's a good crowd of drivers on the way up. Also our boy Briscoe. he could be the next JPM.  |
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F1 needs a serious technical kick up the behind, but it looks like there could be more good drivers out there than for a long time over the next few years. Once the tuggers (Barrichello, Trulli, Fisichella, R Schumacher) are pensioned off things might start getting interesting. Only if at the time when the new crop is properly "in", they will have |
Personally, i can drive a GP car seriously fast you know.. It's all in
the mapping of the left and right steering to ',' and '.'. ;-p
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Phil Newnham <pnewnham (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote: I was assuming that Bob was bemoaning the lack of Herr Schumacher, and not the lack of Ross Brawn, or the promotion of an HR guy (who, incidentally, may or may not have an engineering background - we should be told). You can't be much of an engineer if you willingly move downwards into HR - that's an occupation reserved for bovine, dim-witted upper-middle-class Home Counties female Geography graduates (usually called Zara, Zarah, Sara...) who draw florid and very bad pictures of stallions, read abominable chick-lit on the Tube, tend to become "a little squiffy" on two glasses of Chardonnay and think of themselves as "a little bit wacky, a little bit Ally, a little bit Bridget, a little bit Sex in the City", and tend to become faintly orgasmic at the thought of vampire lust and shoes. Death is sadly far too good for them. Yet they can fuck your career with the same ease with which they allow themselves to be shagged by rugger buggers. The function of HR is to keep employees working as cheaply as possible. The function of workers is to attempt to thwart HR at every possible opportunity. |
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wombat52... (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk wrote: by Rory Byrne. Brawn and Byrne made Schumi. Is Byrne still at the Scuderia? Rory Byrne is utterly loaded and lives right next to a gorgeous beach in Thailand where he has an amazingly beautiful young wife who's also a gourmet cook. Every year they have to pile absolute shitloads of money up in front of him to persuade him to come back for a bit. Eventually he'll just say he can't be bothered - and can you blame him? Alonso is very smart, mature, well managed and an incredibly rounded young driver. Kimi is blindingly fast and talented but the edge goes to Alonso. Rosberg, Kovalainen, Hamilton, Kubica (and on the way up, Vettel, Premat, Lapierre, (spit) Piquet...) - there's a good crowd of drivers on the way up. F1 needs a serious technical kick up the behind, but it looks like there could be more good drivers out there than for a long time over the next few years. Once the tuggers (Barrichello, Trulli, Fisichella, R Schumacher) are pensioned off things might start getting interesting. pete -- p... (AT) fenelon (DOT) com "it made about as much sense as a polythene sandwich" |
Nico may still come good and I like his personality. Hamiliton has
been hyped to the moon but we will see very soon. Piquet is probably
a good one but he is an arrogant little shit.
Vettel could be the most interesting in the pack followed by Heikki.
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wombat52002 (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk wrote: by Rory Byrne. Brawn and Byrne made Schumi. Is Byrne still at the Scuderia? Rory Byrne is utterly loaded and lives right next to a gorgeous beach in Thailand where he has an amazingly beautiful young wife who's also a gourmet cook. Every year they have to pile absolute shitloads of money up in front of him to persuade him to come back for a bit. Eventually he'll just say he can't be bothered - and can you blame him? Alonso is very smart, mature, well managed and an incredibly rounded young driver. Kimi is blindingly fast and talented but the edge goes to Alonso. Rosberg, Kovalainen, Hamilton, Kubica (and on the way up, Vettel, Premat, Lapierre, (spit) Piquet...) - there's a good crowd of drivers on the way up. F1 needs a serious technical kick up the behind, but it looks like there could be more good drivers out there than for a long time over the next few years. Once the tuggers (Barrichello, Trulli, Fisichella, R Schumacher) are pensioned off things might start getting interesting. pete I am continually amazed by people who say "I don't want to travel with the team |
Holbert's Porsche team in the early 1980's, was on Emerson's Porsche team in
1984 at Miami in GTP when he decided to return to racing and won the CART thing
years later, then worked for Teo Fabi when Porsche raced in Cart later on.
I lost track of him. Well, he's been living in Indy for a long time, the chief
transmission engineer with Team Green, now AGR. He has his "corner in the
shop", is raising a family, doesn't want to take the offer of their burgeoning
ALMS P2 team, and is in so many words "just like Nigel". He doesn't want to go
on the road any more!
Reading about Stepney reminded of the guy.
His brother is a life-long friend and said to me last Saturday "Alex actually
hates racing now, he just wants to hang out".
The guy has seen it all, and he's only 42. 9-years younger than the likes of
me or his brother who I know.
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You can't be much of an engineer if you willingly move downwards into HR - that's an occupation reserved for bovine, dim-witted upper-middle-class Home Counties female Geography graduates (usually called Zara, Zarah, Sara...) who draw florid and very bad pictures of stallions, read abominable chick-lit on the Tube, tend to become "a little squiffy" on two glasses of Chardonnay and think of themselves as "a little bit wacky, a little bit Ally, a little bit Bridget, a little bit Sex in the City", and tend to become faintly orgasmic at the thought of vampire lust and shoes. Death is sadly far too good for them. Yet they can fuck your career with the same ease with which they allow themselves to be shagged by rugger buggers. The function of HR is to keep employees working as cheaply as possible. The function of workers is to attempt to thwart HR at every possible opportunity. |
proponents of which I've ever come across, bar one, have been a
complete waste of space. The latest one I've had the misfortune to see
in action was brilliant at only one thing - job creation for herself.
I can't help wondering if you speak from bitter experience though,
Pete...
David
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On 23 Feb, 18:32, Pete Fenelon <p... (AT) fenelon (DOT) com> wrote: You can't be much of an engineer if you willingly move downwards into HR - that's an occupation reserved for bovine, dim-witted upper-middle-class Home Counties female Geography graduates (usually called Zara, Zarah, Sara...) who draw florid and very bad pictures of stallions, read abominable chick-lit on the Tube, tend to become "a little squiffy" on two glasses of Chardonnay and think of themselves as "a little bit wacky, a little bit Ally, a little bit Bridget, a little bit Sex in the City", and tend to become faintly orgasmic at the thought of vampire lust and shoes. Death is sadly far too good for them. Yet they can fuck your career with the same ease with which they allow themselves to be shagged by rugger buggers. The function of HR is to keep employees working as cheaply as possible. The function of workers is to attempt to thwart HR at every possible opportunity. LOL! And I thought I was cynical about Human Remains, all the proponents of which I've ever come across, bar one, have been a complete waste of space. The latest one I've had the misfortune to see in action was brilliant at only one thing - job creation for herself. I can't help wondering if you speak from bitter experience though, Pete... David I have a friend who has his Masters Degree related to HR, he's an asshole to |
He's like the evil HR Manager in the Dilbert Cartoon strip.
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