Originally posted by the Bear:
reading a circular that is going around to the HRs of the
various departments under the bigass entity..
the circular is for the various HRs to take action.. to "share
resources" of manpower.. so that if my department has "skills"
which the other department needs, like a dude who can read and
write Swahili, the other department can write in and request the
dude to go do a piece of work.. and we can do the same to the other
departments
the circular and plan was authored by a Senior Duh-rector.. a few
things i have observed..
[b]ONE:
he has no idea that HRs have NO IDEA what's going on.. my
department HR actually asked us what our job scope was! we were
stunned and wrote back to them... and guess what? they copied and
pasted the whole thing into a open posting! they had no idea at
all!
TWO:
he has set in place so many layers that people will just say
"ahhhh.. bugger it.. i'll go hire someone to do it"..
if i need a certain skill or work done, i will have to seek
permission from my boss, who will need to get clearance from the
director of the division, who will write to HR, who will get in
touch with the other department's HR, who will ascertain if they
have the people, make a shortlist, ask for volunteers after getting
permission from the division directors, and the volunteers, if they
want to do the extra work, will have to seek permission from the
boss, and the requesting party will also have to seek permission...
and after that, the requesting party will have to write a report of
the volunteer's performance...
and that's just the start! 
THREE:
who in their right mind would want to do extra work for people they
don't know, in another department, for no extra pay, and with their
own work piling up in their own department?
FOUR:
he expects all this to be communicated in an IT system which is
buggy, unwieldy, prone to crashes and loses data on a regular
basis? just shows how much he uses that system.
finally... it's full of basic grammatical mistakes
[/b]
At my workplace we'd just ask, around, make a few phone calls, if
we can find someone, then management will talk to each other to
secure the person's assistance. No need to go through all this red
tape leh.
