Gobbledygookles from Cheshire

Civil Servants Can’t Write – October 2009

A letter from officialdom has me amused and wondering how it can be that the people who write this stuff manage to get paid more than I do.

Cheshire Shared Services have sent round a letter to suppliers about their new ‘service’ called ‘i-supplier’. The letter contains the following two paragraphs:

‘i-supplier’ provides suppliers with the ability to use a standard web browser to directly access information in a self-service web environment.

It provides visibility across the procurement-to-pay life cycle, building a collaborative environment where buyers and suppliers become integrated partners as both parties are able to access the same information over the Internet.

I am sans parole. One could not have done better had one tried to be so absurdly obtuse that no one would even laugh. Where do they find them from, the people who don’t even blush to write such rubbish?

‘Cheshire Shared Services’ is a conjunction of Cheshire West and Cheshire and Cheshire East Council. I believe they used to be one, as Cheshire County Council, but now are two, with shared services, see.