I minus plus-deltas

Early morning for me this morning as I had to head down to Peterborough to help conduct some training for HR. Whilst my bit was solidly financial, it seemed like the course was a bit fluffy as the attendees kept having to wander off to do "plus-deltas", which as far as I could tell seemed to be where they talked about what was going well and what they'd like to change.

I liked it better in the old days when people were allowed to properly whinge and moan about things. Sod plus-delta. I want minus. I'd love to go on a course where everyone was officially encouraged to complain about the sessions they'd just experienced immediatley after the experience. Whilst it was fresh in minds.

And sod "learning logs" too.

HR are rubbish

I had an HR type meeting the other day where we were discussing a list of people currently working in the US. I was quite surprised to see halfway down the list, my own name. This surprised me a little as to the best of my knowledge I'm currently working in York, England. I think I would have spotted a daily transatlantic flight should I have been doing one.

I think what happened was the guy making the list had been dictated to down the phone and had got confused and forgotten what he was doing. HR are rubbish.