Former Member 9 Years Ago Blair, A brave story, and one I sympathise with. Your point is well made, but it is one sided. It depends on your standpoint, but the view of any individual within an organisation is built around the weight of power and success of attitude. It isn't about right and wrong. Sometimes it is simply about the easiest way to defuse or pacify. More than ever, with the Public Sector undergoing raging deflation, we all have to be conscious of the impact of what we do on others. Job security has to be to the front of anyone's mind, and it is a rockier area than ever before. While we'd all like to feel that we have control and choice in our positions, we do not (or we have less and less). This is a change in freedom, and people are simply likely to feel they have to side with whatever or whoever seems to have the strongest argument. In this story, while I make no comment about what is reported to have happened, I see the Senior Managers as the most likely to take sides and support the strongest argument. Sometimes morals, common sense, right and wrong, ethics are being pushed aside in favour of a form of cronyism that is quite appalling. 0 Reply as... Cancel