Take it up with the kipper

It's easy to make jokes about managerial incompetence - and note how most management jokes are derogatory.1 'Mushroom management' became an NHS cliche in the 1980s, with managers claiming they were kept in the dark. Now there are seagulls and kippers. The former fly in, dump all over the workers ...

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