Targets and outcomes culture - should I hate it?

[GarfieldLeChat]

arrives late makes disparraging comments about a country they aren't in any more. insults posters who prove them wrong.

more of the usual then flea...

 

[fela fan]

more of the usual then flea...

Ah, abusing a poster's name, and lying about what that poster says, or rather simply making it all up.

About right from angry bitter men.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Ah, abusing a poster's name, and lying about what that poster says, or rather simply making it all up.

About right from angry bitter men.

taking the piss out off a posters dyslexica being too aloof to recognise how they are preceived by others, delusions thinking that i am more than one person.

about right from the bitter expat with jam for brains.

if it keeps happening to you do you always assume it's them, and cannot see that the common factor is in fact you.....

 

[fela fan]

taking the piss out off a posters dyslexica being too aloof to recognise how they are preceived by others, delusions thinking that i am more than one person.

about right from the bitter expat with jam for brains.

if it keeps happening to you do you always assume it's them, and cannot see that the common factor is in fact you.....

I think you're confusing me for somebody else.

I know you have dyslexia and would never take the piss out of you for it, even though you seem to have some hatred for me, for whatever reason.

That's why i called you bitter, but you'll not find me making fun of your posts. I just find it necessary to reply to shit such as you typed about me just above.

 

[Gmart]

The culture of targets and outcomes is the culture of non-trust and control and conformity.

That's why britain has become obsessed with measuring things, the very measuring of which has the outcome of wasting people's energies on conforming to directives rather than doing the actual work.

Alone in education tests and testing has severely impacted on teaching and learning. The UK is now obsessed over this aspect of education, with all these 'enforcers' apparently completely unaware of the negative washback effect of tests, and how teachers simply end up teaching for the tests.

Whole armies of the british population are marching along conforming to targets, spending large chunks of their time filling out forms instead of doing the work.

It's a very orwellian and frightening movement that the country has taken. The british people's needs for control and conformity have caused a blind spot, and the advance of the nation is suffering badly.

Targets will continue, but they are now being devalued. As our population becomes less and less productive, our competitiveness will suffer and we will slip into a recession, until we can learn to make it easier to live.

 

[fela fan]

Targets will continue, but they are now being devalued. As our population becomes less and less productive, our competitiveness will suffer and we will slip into a recession, until we can learn to make it easier to live.

But from my vantage point mate, because productiveness has suffered due to all this form-filling, all this measuring going on that workers have to spend time on, it turned out that everybody is now working more and for longer hours. So perhaps the level of productivity remained the same due to everybody spending more of their lives working.

And that is a terrible state of affairs!

Recessions come and go, it seems the nature of the political and economic system we choose to operate under. I'd be a bit more concerned about where all this is heading. This government have introduced so many thousands of new laws that all have one connection: more state control of people's lives: more measurements, more targets, more forms, more red tape, more security, more conformity.

It heads inexorably towards 1984, and it looks like an out-of-control monster.

 

[butchersapron]

Targets will continue, but they are now being devalued. As our population becomes less and less productive, our competitiveness will suffer and we will slip into a recession, until we can learn to make it easier to live.

Apart, of course, from the fact that prodctivity has increased over the last few decades and is still increasing.

I'm not even going to start on the false assumed unity of interests contained in ' our competitiveness'.

 

[nino_savatte]

Apols if this has already been posted.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YOEB05_3-p0