Consultant from Oxford Self-Outsources

Dear G,

After today's team building meeting, I find myself unable to take this company seriously any longer. I'm afraid I can't take being strategised, reorganised, empowered or re-engineered any more.

The fact there are now more 19 year old consultants in new suits running around with questionnaires than there are staff in our rapidly shrinking department, might be considered by some to be a bad sign. But not by our clueless management, whose inane directives and a seemingly limitless ability to patronise, demotivated and pass the buck, has made the department what it is today. Will you please stop trying to manage from the colour supplements of the Sunday papers? Each Monday I've dreaded another 'fad' directive/ strategy/ initiative from on high. You scatter your conflicting ideas throughout the organisation like the seeds of a mad gardener. Hoping vainly that some of them will sprout, miraculously save the company and with it your miserable hides.

Maybe I'm just not a "team player", but I feel it's time to "self-outsource" to another organisation.

Yours in exasperation,

P.S. Sorry I didn't address this letter correctly, but I didn't receive the organisational chart for this week.