The Polish Experience By Nicholas Westerby This ... - GetSab.Com

I enjoyed the stroll and the excuse to get out of the office, where I was
increasingly not needed. The team were functioning and Monika cracked the
whip then looked to me for approval. I spent most of my time acting as liaison
between various departments in the UK. I had learnt very quickly that the
biggest enemy, biggest threat to M&M was itself. The infighting and
mudslinging between departments, between managers and senior staff was a
joke but nothing was funny about it.
HR might have preached about strategic alignment but they were too focused on
their battle with Finance and Legal to follow through on it. Legal and Finance
co-operated or more accurately left each other to their own devices while Sales,
Marketing, Customer Service and Logistics battled for relevance. Only
Catering, Security and Production were free from the vicious barbs and vitriol
of office politics. This simply was because everyone else knew that those three
were at the bottom of the food chain.
Did anyone wonder about translation services?
Where did they fit in the corporate hierarchy?
Well I finally made my way past what was called the Jewish Ghetto to a small
office above a printers. I was amused to see that the translation service’s door
was padded with the kind of material that they use on mental patients walls in
movies. I wondered why it was and came to the conclusion that if they were