Here's a perfectly good footy player who has been promoted into "Avian Reassignment " ............. When you go to Minsmere, if you actually manage to find it that is, you will find just down from reception a wonderful long avenue of Buddleias .... and in the summer it's a wonderful place for butterflies both common and rare. And lots of other insects too. Brilliant. It's a relatively cheap and easy way to get a spectacular start to the Minsmere experience. BUT ...at Grumbling Stumps they've spent oodles of cash "redoing" the post-reception area, but what have they got for it .... crap, that's what. They must have spent a fortune over the months and months it took to do all the stone paths and stone walls, all very slippery and dangerous ( lots of sharp edges for the kiddies to bash their skulls in) and ugly. The planting is very sparse and attracts almost nothing, there's some soggy, gloomy picnic tables, a ridiculously tiny and murky "pond", and some things kids can make a lot of noise with. Basically, it's rubbish. Did I mention it was very expensive and took months and months to get it finished ? That is a classic case of duff management ! And why do we have duff management ? Well, what happens is, people who are good at their job get promoted. And eventually they get promoted into a job they aren't very good at. And that's where they stay. Often for most of their career. So excellent birdwatchers get promoted into management, which isn't their thing. So the organisation loses a good worker, and promotes them into failure. The Peter Principle...... that's what we call it. It's a "thing." And a stupid thing. An unfortunate but ubiquitous thing. Think of Boris Johnson. Actually .... maybe you shouldn't. Here's a totally unrelated spot of music ....
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