Gissa Job

Gissa Job

42 is the answer to the universe, and was also my peak of career.

Before then I thought of promotion, moving on up, being in charge.

After that I thought of survival, not descending, trying to plateau out.

If there are lessons in life in the workplace:

1. A job or career is not for life;
2. Loyalty is 2 way employer - employee;
3. Experience and knowledge counts for little, bullshit counts for more;
4. Getting Older does not help;
5. Arse licking does help;
6. Managers cover their’s – arses;
7. Managers stab you in a part of the body above your arse, yes the back;
8. Managers see employees as a threat to their own existence;
9. Incompetence reigns supreme, some earn their crust others just get a salary;
10. Wankers Win.

As you may probably guess, as I have won and lost and at this stage in my life, I feel I am losing, yes I did have the plot thank you. I am an expert in some areas of life. I worked out once when I had nothing else to do, that I was case officer in about 600 court cases. I only lost 2, both on points of law not the facts. Funnily enough 30 years later the Government , because of Brussels, closed those loop holes. I also made 250 factual TV programmes for broadcast. I hold the record viewing figures for BBCTV Watchdog – 10m. I hold the record sentence for bringing to book a counterfeiter – four and a half years and his assets confiscated.

My point being that there must be a lot of wasted talent, experience and knowledge out there, including MOI !

If I was Prime Minister it would be the first thing I would do. Yes, we need new generations, but mistakes are made every day by employees who are not adequately trained and who do not have guidance from older heads.

I have had 2 main careers in TV journalism and in consumer protection law enforcement and advice.

This may read like a CV, but it would not be politically correct to say what I think in a CV or at work, but why should it not be. The Sweeney was a great TV series, where they said it as it is. Now I drive lorries for various firms, different ones each week. The worse recession (2008) I can remember does not help on the job front. True I have cocked up on that front in the past. Calling some interfering idiot a wanker was one example. He got more money than me and thought he was superior because of that and his elevation in the team structure. Yes a so called line manager, Garry Seal of Waltham Forest and Harlow. Fat, ugly, pompous, environmental health officer, and also a wanker because he was clueless and would not listen. This Arsenal supporter covered his arse, big as it was. He thought he knew it all but knew nothing about my job and still interfered, eg pulling the plug on a crown court case that I had spent 2 years investigating. He was Mr Negative, lets do nothing just pretend, lets tick boxes, what Community, all he could see was a computer screen in his office decorated with Arsenal memorabilia.

I will elude more in separate chapters on the Beeb and Trading Standards, the good times the bad times. These are my memoirs and I compile them when time permits and I feel the flow as opposed to feeling the force, but at least I can hold my head up high and say I did not get where I am today by being a wanker, unlike some.

May the Force be with you.