Nanny strongly believes in "risk avoidance"; an absurd attitude, as one can never eliminate risks. Indeed, risk and struggle gives life meaning.Anyhoo, Nanny feels that one way to avoid risk is to ensure that people are properly trained to undertake their daily tasks.
Unfortunately Nanny insists that people are disbarred from taking certain actions, if they have not received the requisite training. Needless to say Nanny's training schemes cover the minutiae of daily routines.
One such training scheme involves training police officers in the ancient art of ladder climbing.
The result of Nanny's inflexible attitude to training meant that one group of police officers in Middleton, Manchester, were unable to investigate the vandalism of a church in Middleton.
The reason?
They had not yet been of the ladder climbing training course.
Spiffing!
Public service is littered with these meaningless courses. It is, needless to say, all an arse covering exercise to avoid any expensive litigation in the future. Nanny's fostering of the PC culture has created a monster that threatens to consume her. Two of my favourite courses illustrating how my life is being wasted were the Moving and Handling Course and How to Carry a Ladder.
ReplyDeleteThe former comprised a day long course that could have been summed up thus; when moving heavy objects keep your back straight and bend your kness. The latter was only a two hour course but advised us of the best way to carry a long ladder (one person at each end!) and was accompanied by an instructional video.
Complete and utter madness.