johnh3210 (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk wrote:
Couldn't agree more - than again so was his father.

I'm just hoping this new generation give F1 a kick and turn it into
something worth taking an interest in again. After all, there's an awful
lot of good racing elsewhere out there - GP2, which even Flav says is
better than F1; A1GP; Champcar; World Series Renault; and of course
sports car racing!

pete
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DC <dcunliffe (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Well... in the company that gave me entirely too much money through
university, that stereotype held true. One had to deal with a different
wave of negligible Jemimas every year.

In my first 'real' job, in academia, the "Personnel Officer" over the
years managed to inflate his job to "Director of Human Resources",
staffing his office with exactly the sort of genetic dross to which I
refer above.

My next company, well HR was looked after by the wife of one of the
directors. He was a rugger-bugger, she was a waste of space, and I never
even had a contract or received a P45 there...

In the last company we didn't really *have* HR until we were taken over.
We were a startup and too busy to bother with it, we had a nice simple
appraisal system and you could argue the toss about pay-rises with the
directors; towards the end of our independent existence an HR consultant
we referred to as the "Angel of Death" (for his role in some
redundancies) seemed to hypnotise the director who looked after that side
of things and a fair amount of bullshit happened. Then we got taken over
by $German_Automotive_Electronics_Company and the wankerdom started...
The HR Wanker was a member of the Master Race who ironed his jeans
to a sharp crease and refused to come upstairs to talk to the
engineers because he thought they "created a negative atmosphere".
Well of course we did - the contracts he forced on us after we were
taken over were significantly worse than the ones we used to have
(they left the salaries unchanged but significantly worsened the
T&Cs).

I'm not exactly a *fan* of the HR director of my current company but
there does appear to be some basic competence.

pete
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Pete Fenelon pete (AT) fenelon (DOT) com said:
I'm so thankful for A1GP this winter. SpeedTV shows it up the dial at 16:00
hours to 18:00 hours on Wednesday following the event, but I take time to
record it to watch on the weekend.

I'm also pleased to see "Franco-Canadian Ace" Bruno Spengler of Quebec kicking
some ass in the highly competitive DTM series. We don't get it here until the
series is well over.

Enjoyable racing by all means.

"Pete Fenelon" <pete (AT) fenelon (DOT) com> wrote

primary job is to protect and promote the company. It is the job of
Managers to hire and retain employees, keeping them just happy
enough that they don't quite outright.

It is the job of HR to prevent lawsuites.

Tony S.

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 at 20:07 GMT, Pete Fenelon, wrote:
Wonders why isn't Hulkenberg in the above list?

He is doing great in A1, with some great consistent & dominating
driving. Being managed by a cunning guy, I had say, the kid has
far more better chances than any one else... (excluding Lewis)

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Standard procedures will probably mean moving offline to get as much
debris on your tyres that can add a couple of kilos with a bit of luck.

On 24 Feb, 10:07, Pete Fenelon <p... (AT) fenelon (DOT) com> wrote:
[snip]

I had that with my current company - until they decided they were big
enough to "need" an HR woman. It went downhill so far that they
applied for Investors In People...

Ah, so it's not just because of Schumacher that you're no fan of
Germans. Sounds like a nightmare...

David

Tony <someone (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote:
It is the job of HR to keep you there cheaply.

pete
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DC <dcunliffe (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Schumacher has nothing to do with it; I admire his ability behind the
wheel while finding his lack of sportsmanship reprehensible.

pete
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pete (AT) fenelon (DOT) com "it made about as much sense as a polythene sandwich"

On Feb 23, 2:41 pm, Pete Fenelon <p... (AT) fenelon (DOT) com> wrote:
The goings on at Ferrari are VERY strange. OK... Byrne isn't getting
any younger, but you'd have thought that most of the team that has had
such massive success might want to stick around to show that they can
cut the mustard with another driver, that it wasn't all just Schumie
and they played their part too.

Alonso's gone to a team that has looked less than complete the last
couple of years and has lost a top-flight designer. Renault have got a
has-been and a rookie driving for them. Ferrari have two very quick
drivers in their cars, and they should be smelling blood.

Pete Fenelon wrote:

It is the job of HR to keep HR there and expanding.

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