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By Veronica_Milvus
31 March 2008
I AM the bastard child of John Hegley and Pam Ayres.

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

 

Bring all your poor, your huddled masses,

the halt, the lame, the chattering classes,

the blank of brain, the glazed of eye,

those whose is not to reason why,

the clueless, gormless, psychopaths

who can’t be left to run their baths,

who cannot spell, or type, or plan,

who have a short attention span,

who can’t co-ordinate a meeting,

can’t save a file without deleting,

who spam you with their “reply-all”,

but can’t pick up the phone and call,

who can’t interpret contract clauses,

who have no grip on market forces,

all those who failed their first-aid courses -

and give them jobs in Human Resources.

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Written by Josie (2732 comments posted) 31st March 2008
Ha ha - Fantastico! I think you should win first prize for this Veronica. I'll be laughing all afternoon. Well done! What a gift, to make others laugh. I think this should be pinned up in every office.

Written by anaisanais (62 comments posted) 31st March 2008
I don't believe in poking fun at those less fortunate - maybe you should just be thankful you weren't born with identical genes. Nothing wrong in how it is written just the content I abhor! Shame....

Written by punchy (493 comments posted) 31st March 2008
Clever poem but rather cruel I must add. 
Hope it was tongue in cheek :eek  
Which I'm sure it was.
Not cruel at all.
Written by PeterRSaree (5 comments posted) 31st March 2008
Such people hire their own as well. Then they get unionized and their incompetence is protected by rules, contracts, and regulations, which most often they do not read anyway. Think of a whole organization run in this way: the incompetent are lauded, the competent are marauded, and we pay the taxes.

Written by mia_ms_kim (973 comments posted) 31st March 2008
I found this clever and funny. I never worked in Human Resources, but if I did, I think I still would find it funny. (I'd probably think the poem refers to everyone else in the dept but me, such is my ego :p
 
Then I read the review comments, and went back for another read, and I could see how some people could be sensitive to this. I know parents who have disabled children and the symptoms you describe actually apply to many of them. And nothing can bring greater pain to a parent than to see their disabled children sit by themselves alone, or get mocked. (You probably wouldn't have written the piece like this if you were one of those parents.) 
 
We all have sensitive spots, and can overreact. (Mine is sexism - when committed against a female. :upset
 
But since your intention wasn't to mock disabled people, perhaps it's ok. I believe in the end, when we are oversensitive about certain issues, then that is our burden to work on and to come to terms with. 
 
Mia :)
Lucky us
Written by patterjack (1159 comments posted) 30th June 2008
We have always had good treatment from the government agencies that look after us halt and lame .  
 
A disabled grandson could I am sure be given more aid -- maybe a change of government will help . 
 
You are a bit fierce here ! -- and that's a good rather than a bad thing  
 
patterjack

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