Ian Hillson

‘The casualisation of the BBC workforce continues apace. 

BBC Worldwide has so many freelances it now needs a “Contingent Workers Co-ordinator”, the first sighting of this unpleasant euphemism I’ve seen in BBC job ads.

Exciting tasks to fill the day for the successful candidate? “Input of contract information to Peoplefluent Contractor Management System”.

Geoffrey Hawkes

Don’t you love the way the BBC can come up with these pompous sounding phrases?

The task definition:  “Input of contract information to Peoplefluent Contractor Management System” has to be one of the best bits of gobbledygook I come across in ages.

It reminds me of those prize mission statements they kept coming up with in the nineties, “Value for Money”, “Delivering Quality First” and whatever else. They sounded good but what did they deliver? Ever lowering of standards both on screen and off, it seemed to me.

Such a pity that the world of employment we knew seems to be gone forever. I wonder if today’s younger generation will tell their successors that they lived through the Golden Age of Television (or other spheres of employment) and rue its passing like we did and do?

Roger Bunce

I used to imagine that “W1A” was all true. Now I realise that it’s an understatement!

Anna Rampton  (“W1A”)

[“Head of Better”]
This is about identifying what we do best, and finding more ways of doing less of it better.

 
[Ed: just had to include this clip somewhere in this compilation of Conversations!]