Simon Jones

@ariadneassoc.bsky.social

HR Consultant, Part-time University Lecturer, Based in Liverpool, once wrote a book on HR for SME (https://amzn.eu/d/cKkcHEC). You can find me at www.ariadneassociates.co.uk

In which once again politicians demonstrate they are incapable of professional workplace behaviour (Delete the word Labour and replace civil servant with senior executive and try using it about a new employee and see how far you get…)

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 2w ago

"One Labour colleague described Amin-Smith’s good looks as “genuinely distracting”. A civil servant admitted finding it difficult to make eye contact in meetings with him. "This is not generally how people talk about new senior advisors to the prime minister."

A) The grandson of a merchant seaman, I was brought up on the edge of Leeds’ most multicultural and deprived area, and attended an inner city comprehensive school B) I was brought up in a quiet North Leeds suburb and attended one of the city’s highest regarded Grammar schools, before University.

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's quite a fun exercise to try to work out what the most working class and most middle class version of the story of your own social background you could tell. (I could tell wildly different stories about my own social class by picking the biographies of two grandparents - one from each parent.)