New leader of Manchester City Council

[Mr Kobayashi]

Is the correct answer 'a foul mouthed harridan'

Have you also experienced misogyny directed at you?

 

[ganganvince]

Yes I read your screenshot and have just re-read it. The heading of "background" doesn't appear on the current full version of her LinkedIn account I have read.

Could be a number of reasons for that, one is that you simply chose to screenshot that part of the account and pass it off as all the experience or you didn't have full access.

I've provided a screenshot of my own.


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Appology accepted

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Appology accepted

You won't be getting one, because you told mistruths if not intentional lies.


It’s also daft to have been under the impression linkedin has to be a complete CV., i’s not unless someone chooses to upload all of it.

 

[west didsblue]

I'm wondering why anyone who is educated up to PhD level at a top university in a relevant subject following a first class honours degree and a masters would be totally out of her depth leading an organisation that she's been part of for 10 years applying the knowledge she has learnt.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

I'm wondering why anyone who is educated up to PhD level at a top university in a relevant subject following a first class honours degree and a masters would be totally out of her depth leading an organisation that she's been part of for 10 years applying the knowledge she has learnt.

Yes but that's far too sensible for this gang of Alf Garnetts to understand.

 

[west didsblue]

Yes but that's far too sensible for this gang of Alf Garnetts to understand.

I'd like to know what "real world" experience would make her more suitable

 

[metalblue]

I'm wondering why anyone who is educated up to PhD level at a top university in a relevant subject following a first class honours degree and a masters would be totally out of her depth leading an organisation that she's been part of for 10 years applying the knowledge she has learnt.

Ah come on mate, you’re not seriously suggesting having a masters/PhD in a subject actually counts for shit in the real world are you? Opens doors for sure but that’s about it. But it’s one of the things that shocks me about the workplace today, our business is degree only nowadays (like many) but having a degree doesn’t help you understand the first thing about our business - you just need a brain that can join the dots (which I guess is why they say they have degree = they have brain)

Anyroad off track. As it happens (having checked out her linked in profile which isn’t like the one posted) she does have a background that doesn’t seem out of place for her new role so not entirely sure what all the fuss is about (although it’s a bit funny). Good luck to her in her new role, if she does a good job it helps Manchester.

 

[west didsblue]

Ah come on mate, you’re not seriously suggesting having a masters/PhD in a subject actually counts for shit in the real world are you? Opens doors for sure but that’s about it. But it’s one of the things that shocks me about the workplace today, our business is degree only nowadays (like many) but having a degree doesn’t help you understand the first thing about our business - you just need a brain that can join the dots (which I guess is why they say they have degree = they have brain)

Anyroad off track. As it happens (having checked out her linked in profile which isn’t like the one posted) she does have a background that doesn’t seem out of place for her new role so not entirely sure what all the fuss is about (although it’s a bit funny). Good luck to her in her new role, if she does a good job it helps Manchester.

I think you’ve answered your own point about the relevance of having a degree, and knowing more stuff about your chosen subject by getting a higher degree isn’t going to do any harm and is a demonstration to prospective employers that you should be able to operate at a high level. No guarantees but there’s more chance of a successful career in local government for someone with a PhD in politics than someone with a couple of GCSEs and 5 years experience working on a building site or in a shop, even if they are in the “real world”.

Either way she deserves to be given a chance to prove herself in the role without being dismissed as out of her depth by people who don’t know her.

 

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I'd like to know what "real world" experience would make her more suitable

Journalism?

 

[west didsblue]

Journalism?

But only if she got sacked for making up stories.