The Odanglesex Chronicles

January

9

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This is really one for council officers rather than residents….

You may think that after the court case last year involving Lord Hanningfield, that County Councils are beyond satire, but an ex-employee of Essex County Council is having a go…

As a sample, here’s a (fictional) email between two officers at this fictional County Council:

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FROM: Conor O’Connor
TO: Edelbertha Spengler

Ed: Sorry you couldn’t get back in time from the Local Government Excellence in Transformation Awards ceremony because of choppy water in the Solent. Just to let you know that the panel offered the post of Head of Statistical Strategy and Numerological Transformation to Margot Outforle and she has accepted. Neville Potts has turned down the Assistant post and is taking voluntary redundancy: we will need to reinstate the process to appoint to that post.
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There wasn’t much between the two of them on written applications or interview, but Margot won heads down on the presentational task. As you’ll recall, it was to present a report on “Odanglesex in 2030: a Statistical Approach”. Margot’s demonstration of the implications of a continued increase at the current rate of golf courses was very well received. Neville, by contrast, lost marks by discounting statistics from Spamby Island on the grounds that climate change would have resulted in its disappearance by 2030, since Councillor Sillitoe-Heald pointed out that our official position is that climate change is a statistical blip…….

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