Consultation meetings that go round in circles

Great, let’s have a consultation about something really important, say, redesigning the country’s entire secondary education system. Brilliant. Three days off work, lots of mate, accreditation, handouts, presentations, activities, one third of the people paying attention and showing how much they know, one third drinking mate and flirting with each other, and one third complaining about what a boring old pile of shit this is.

Day 1: Some sweaty clueless people present the aim of the meeting – to redesign the fuck out of everything because it’s all buggered. Talk about how badly buggered it is, laugh at how badly buggered it is, never at any point contemplate that this roomful of people might just be capable of buggering it even more.

Day 2: What the fuck did we talk about yesterday? Ooh, just a quick recap then. What, no Powerpoint? No, sorry, that’s all tied up being used for pointless email attachments (see Powerpoint as neverending email attachment). So we’ll just draw something incomprehensible on some blue paper like in the good old days.

Day 3: Just to return to our previous point then, it’s all really buggered. So, what do you guys think?
Well, sweaty clueless people at the front, we, the bored people, agree it’s all really buggered. What we thought would be required would be some kind of “unbuggering” policy, perhaps shifting our focus towards “upfuckery” or maybe even a “shafting”. Yes, a good “shafting”.

So the conclusion after three days of earnest thinking is that some more thinking needs to be done, by some other people, far away, along the lines of shifting the emphasis away from buggering the country to shafting the country. Well done. Well done everybody. I think we can all be proud of some real progress.