Thursday 29 May 2014

Crass TR Competition

I thought it was time to try and collect together some of the best examples of crass shite that the whole TR omnishambles has thrown up. You know the sort of stuff, like this uplifting email from an ACO:-
As I will be on annual leave next week when the key milestone of the split into the CRC and NPS is reached, I wanted to take an opportunity before then to say something about this change.
I am indebted to Xxxx Xxxxxx, who came up with this brilliant analogy in a recent meeting we both attended. XXPT will no longer exist and we will all be sharing the experience of working for a different organisation - but not all in the same organisation. The TR programme has brought us to this point, but this is just a milestone in a longer journey. As Xxxx said, it's a bit like moving house. We've had (with the sift, the appeals etc) all the ups and downs of looking for a property, hoping our bid will be accepted and that we do not find ourselves in a complicated chain, we've organised the removal firm, the contracts have been exchanged and on June 1st the big day arrives and we get the keys to the house. We're tempted to think that all the hard work and the emotional ups and downs are now over. The reality of course is that one of the removal vans has got stuck in traffic, we don't know if the sofa fits the new living room, we can't find the fuse box, and we've a load of stuff to unpack and sort and we can't remember where we packed the cutlery.......
OK - some of you may have approached a move of house rather more efficiently than I clearly did.....but I'm sure you get the point. Not everything is sorted, some things are very familiar but look a bit different in a new place and other things are new and unfamiliar. I have no doubt that this applies to both the CRC and the NPS - we don't have the new world all neat and tidy and organised yet and there are things we haven't got answers to and probably questions we still haven't realised we need to ask. Some of us will cope more easily with this than others. The main thing is that we all support each other through this. Don't worry about the things you are unsure about, or about getting things wrong because of this - keep asking - someone will know or we'll find a fix - it's all part of the process. We will get there - and we will work together to make 'there' somewhere we want to be and are proud of.
My 'twin' (that won't make any sense unless you were at our staff conference!), Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, takes up her new role in Xxxxxxxx/Xxxxxxx CRC on Monday, June 2nd. I very much hope her first week is a chance to decompress from the demands of bid writing, and start familiarising herself with the LDU. I am absolutely confident that she will receive a warm welcome from one and all - and lots of offers of help while she seeks out that elusive fuse box!
Best wishes to all
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Interestingly our CRC CEO Designate (yes really) said the expectation is, no matter how busy staff are they are expected to keep up to date and read the important information being sent out. "Take it home and read your stuff relaxing with a cup of coffee" yes really......so now we are expected to take instructions about new processes and procedures home so that we can learn err, how to do our jobs....

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Of course there's this on the home page of the new NPS website:-

The offender who didn't go back to prison, After the fight he didn't get into, With the friend he never confronted, Because you taught him to take five minutes and cool down.

Set the boundaries. Change the outcome.


The woman who didn't need treatment, For the overdose that was never caused, By the drugs she didn't buy, Because you proposed a curfew.


Set the boundaries. Change the outcome.

I'll publish the best examples in a future blog post.

18 comments:

  1. PO NPS designate my arse29 May 2014 at 17:46

    It rhymes with rollocks

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  2. It would be interesting to see just how many senior managers around the country have taken leave at this time in a bid to hide away from all the chaos that they have supported...

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  3. On the subject of Senior Managers, one of my colleagues from Durham sent me an email from their Senior Manager asking them to make sure that following the upgrade to Delius, priority be given to ensuring that clients accommodation and employment status were immediately updated as this was a 'quick win' in terms of Payment by Results.

    She is not normally someone who swears but on this occasion made an exception. Well, several exceptions TBH.

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    1. We got the email and there was plenty of swearing in our office too.

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  4. How completely crass to miss the point so dramatically and to suggest, its like moving house - what planet does that person live on?

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  5. All this xxxx xxxxx -t's so Chilcot. Why are these pantomine characters being protected with anonymity? They live on the same plantet, but they are spared the frontline experience. They are in ivory towers and they don't really feel the chill winds. This is why they can be so jolly and sanguine about everything. They are distanced. We defer to them by not naming them.

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    1. Sorry Netnipper - my decision to protect the source.

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  6. This is the key example of all the bollox upper management, they dont have to deal with the day to day going horribly wrong so they can spout rubbish and expect the underlings to lap it up. If you reading this CRC CEO and upper management, get a F*****G grip.

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  7. what's the grade of the person that's deputy to the CEO - well the one on Merseyside has put a message on email to say he thinks there's sufficient interest for the Party in the Park on Sunday - he went on to say he hopes it doesn't rain as he does not have a Plan B. Gawd elp us!!!

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    1. "don't have a Plan B"

      *bites tongue*

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  8. We had a great speech from our director the other week. He said along the lines of:

    I'm not quite sure what all the issues are with motivation. Yes you CRC POs won't be able to write reports anymore, you won't be able to work with high risk cases or attend mappa but you either need to get on board or ship out.

    In the same speech he said we don't know who is going to bid for our work yet but if it is one of the big companies they will want to manage this at arms length and outsource the work to tier 2 and tier 3 organisations and that he can't promise there won't be redundancies.

    In the mean time if we could all get on with it and keep things ticking over so that bidders want to buy us that would be just lovely.

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  9. Un-believeable29 May 2014 at 19:35

    Is it true that a CRC CEO in the first meeting to his troops said something along the lines of 'Probation has been geting it wrong for the past 100 years-now lets get it right"?

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    1. That happened on our area! We were told it's not been that good up until now but we can start making it better!!!

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    2. Someone should have said...come on then, tell us exactly how we are going to do that?

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  10. incredible...what a disaster.

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    1. As far as I can tell the directors recognise they have a job to do and that is to get CRCs through to share sale. If they manage to achieve this then they will have met their targets and achieved their goals, can add this 'success' to their cv and move on to another job somewhere else leaving everyone else to their fate.

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  11. This:
    'I appreciate that there are Napo members who have questioned whether we should have done more. In an open and transparent organisation like ours that’s understandable and we should rightly be accountable to those whom you elect to undertake that role. '

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    1. Given no direction by ANYBODY about ANYTHING to do with how I do my job NEXT WEEK. Tons of emails about how to be a good little civil servant.

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