Posted 21 August 2009 - 09:09 PM
My team leader has got promoted. I'm happy for her, she's a lovely lady and really deserved to get promoted. But... given the team I'm on is seen as one which gets you noticed and promoted within the department, I expect the people who will be going for her job (apart from the guy on my team that totally deserves to get it, but won't because his face doesn't fit) will be the kind of Civil Servants who want to "get ahead"; these people, to a man and woman, generally tend to be complete tossers. This means that a] we'll have someone new who doesn't know what they're doing and b] they're almost certainly bound to be grandstanding jobsworth scum...
This leaves the rest of us with a problem. As it stands now the team has great morale, those of us, like myself, who are new to it are learning our jobs well, everyone gets on with each other, there's no backbiting or internal politics... Should we get someone who doesn't understand how things work, especially someone who's overly concerned with stats, regulations and making a name for themselves this could all fall apart in a great hurry...
It's not a biggie as problems go, but it's making me a little concerned about the future.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. … So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants. Bertrand Russell