{"id":20903,"date":"2017-02-12T09:46:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T09:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20903"},"modified":"2017-02-12T09:46:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T09:46:51","slug":"when-teamworking-goes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20903","title":{"rendered":"When Teamworking® Goes Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Weetabix\"I\u2019ve written before of my still-recurring nightmares about Teamworking and the hell I had to put up with for the final ten years of my time in the rat race. Not that long ago, Sainsbury\u2019s made the mistake of allowing \u201cthe Team\u201d to become involved in things which were really none of their business, and which were well beyond their wit to consider the full implications involved<\/a>. Of course, also of similar magnitude on the Stupid Scale was the Boaty McBoatface fiasco, and the \u201cdecision\u201d to leave the EU<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just what happens when idiots allow even bigger idiots to become involved in important decision making.<\/p>\n

Weetabix has now had a go at demonstrating how stupid its staff are, and is just as guilty of not ring-fencing the situation as Sainsbury\u2019s and the British Government (specifically, ex-PM David Cameron) were to protect itself from the subsequent and inevitable bad publicity.<\/p>\n

For anyone who doesn\u2019t know, Weetabix is a breakfast cereal which, in its most common form, comes as formed blocks of cereal. Like any 21st Century cereal, on its own it tastes like cardboard, and is only rendered edible \u2013 it\u2019s actually rather nice \u2013 by the addition of milk and a little sugar sprinkled on top. Technically, it only remains \u201cnice\u201d for a few minutes before it turns into a gloop that is almost identical to wallpaper paste, but that\u2019s a different story.<\/p>\n

Weetabix staff appear to have held a brainstorming session at some point (this is by its own admission), and \u201cthe Team\u201d came up with the idea of putting ham and poached eggs on the top! It\u2019s apparently a \u201cBritish version of Eggs Benedict\u201d. Weetabix management is now frantically trying to underplay the negative reaction to it:<\/p>\n

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Weetabix admitted staff got \u201ca ‘little’ enthusiastic\u201d during a brainstorming session, adding it \u201cseemed like a good idea at the time\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope we can put this behind us and still make breakfast work, perhaps with something more traditional like milk and fruit,\u201d they added. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis recipe is for those who like a little more adventure with their cereal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don\u2019t doubt that there will be some who go so far as to try it \u2013 and even claim it tastes good. But of course, some people voted for \u201cBoaty McBoatface\u201d and Brexit. <\/p>\n

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Incidentally, Weetabix management seems to be turning lack of control over its staff into a bit of a habit. I\u2019ve noticed a few times now that there is a new advert for LIQUID Weetabix \u2013 a so-called \u201cbreakfast drink\u201d<\/a>. I have to avert my eyes when it comes on, as it makes me want to throw up. Gloopy Weetabix is bad enough, but a version which is manufactured so it is pre-gloopy (or conveys that image) is just obscene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve written before of my still-recurring nightmares about Teamworking and the hell I had to put up with for the final ten years of my time in the rat race. Not that long ago, Sainsbury\u2019s made the mistake of allowing \u201cthe Team\u201d to become involved in things which were really none of their business, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[93,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}