Network Rail's managing director for the Wales and Western region, Michelle Handforth, has resigned.
It came just days after infrastructure problems left hundreds of passengers stranded in carriages for hours in the dark in west London.
Ms Handforth was paid a £330,000 salary and commuted to work from Aberdeen.After all, the train service is sooooo unreliable, isn't it?
A rail insider said she had made the decision to resign before the west London incident, after recognising the challenges of the role.To be more accurate, recognising that she wasn't up to them, surely?
H/T: IanJ via email
Please can you (someone, anyone) cite a single instance of a company, organisation or institution where a woman is (affirmative action) parachuted in to run it that 'didn't' turn a successful, or at least functioning, system into a complete shambles?
ReplyDeleteWhilst there are many hard-working, capable, competent women, they aren't ever 'the sort' who get these posts. No, the only ones who do are always the typical grifter, scam-artist, parasitic, unqualified (except for having a vagina and a long list of grievances).
I wonder (a la Claudine Gay) just what an independent examination of her resume, and those of her (all male, white, men who probably slogged at the job for years only to be 'passed over' in her favour) competition for the post, would look like?
The truth is (for basic reasons such as personal choices, interest, and committent to 'the job' rather than self or "family life") almost no woman would be employed ... anywhere if 'not' for "regulations", quotas and affirmative action (and especially not as the head of an organisation they haven't a clue about, never worked in, and just wanted the cushy, profitable sinicure without any of that icky work involved in actually building it in the first place - hint: women are absolute masters in demanding representation and power in structures that, until they are safe, comfortable and profitable, they had nothing whatsoever to do with beforehand).
"...parachuted in to run it..."
ReplyDeletePerhaps it's the act of foisting someone - anyone - on a company that's the issue, rather than allowing the company to grow as it wishes?