How on earth do you reach a point where you suddenly have to save £140 million? Like. How badly have been looking at your stuff? That you didn't notice a problem the size of A HUNDRED AND FORTY MILLION? - ThreadSky

onslies.bsky.social • 1 day ago

How on earth do you reach a point where you suddenly have to save £140 million? Like. How badly have been looking at your stuff? That you didn't notice a problem the size of A HUNDRED AND FORTY MILLION?

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A HUNDRED AND FORTY MILLION???

A?
HUNDRED?
AND?
FORTY?
MILLION????

what?

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ncecire.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ooh, "the right size and shape," they're behind the trend; everyone else used that particular waffle about five years ago

ncecire.bsky.social•1 day ago

Someone is behind on their management bullshit; that one was from KPMG's fall/winter 2021 collection

martincorley.org•17 hours ago

That'll be the financial hitman they brought in to do the job (and then move on): https://principals-office.ed.ac.uk/vice-principals-and-senior-leadership/senior-leadership-team/mr-nirmal-borkhataria

onslies.bsky.social•18 hours ago

How very retro.

onslies.bsky.social•1 day ago

I have spent the last hour exclaiming, out loud, every ten minutes or so, "A HUNDRED A FORTY MILLION?".

onslies.bsky.social•1 day ago

£140 million (A HUNDRED AND FORTY MILLION) is just such a comically large sum we could also turn it into a romantic comedy from the heydays of the genre.

(A HUNDRED AND FORTY MILLION)

oliviasmith.bsky.social•14 hours ago

That is bananas.
Rotten bananas.

onslies.bsky.social•13 hours ago

And not bananas that make nice banana bread.

kbneal.bsky.social•1 day ago

onslies.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean, it's all so utterly absurd I've been frantically giggly about it and can totally imagine that hired interim 'turnover specialist' to be doing exactly this. https://www.scotsman.com/education/cost-cutting-edinburgh-university-hires-turnaround-specialist-who-delivers-in-substantial-change-4908983

onslies.bsky.social•1 day ago

Basing the future of a research institution on what consultants think 17-year-olds want is adding to the absurdity.

a: they do not know
b: that changes -- what if in 5 years 'the economy' is deemed to need a bunch of Italian grads?
c: have some self-respect

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