merry go round of Change Programme's (the consultants knew didly squat about what we did but of course had their ready made package of changes any business needed to survive). Of course this is an interative process of different consultancies coming in and constantly chaning things as "Change" is good. Over the years consultancies became worse as they parachuted graduates in who had never held done a real job in their lives. (At eye watering day rates I might add). These consultants as most of you will know were primarily targeted to get even more of their collegues into your business. So; We had profit centres so we could all start charging each other oh and employ a load of accountant's of course for the internal charging regime. We did away with company bargaining so instead of 3 people who used to look after industrial relations and training we ended up with a very large HR Department. The large HR department then decided the company needed taken into the 21st Century so we had to have Mission Statements, Customer Focus programmes, performance bonus's, appraisals, 360 degree appraisals etc. Management bullshit became the norm as those who ever played bullshit bingo will remember. Then of course we started to get visionary's employed at board level who had read about the virtual company and we started down to outsourcing route round about the end of the ninties. So that needed a huge procurement department. They knew sod all about the business but