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Joe Riley

Joe Riley is arts editor, columnist and leader writer for the Liverpool ECHO. The Life of Riley is a wry look at existence - local, national and international (and occasionally into outer space) - as seen by the UK's senior serving arts critic and the ECHO's longest-serving journalist.

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The Ring of Incompetence

Posted by Joe Riley on July 25, 2007 2:39 PM | 

Notice all all departmental heads - ofwhatever company - who think they have cover....

I rang a well-known Liverpool arts organisation at 10am the other day (any earlier is pre-dawn in the luvvies' world) to be told by voice message: "This is.....I am on leave until July 23. In my absense please phone.......
I [phoned.....to hear on their voice mail: I am not in the office until July 24"
Upshot. Nobody to speak to - and on the day that a press release from the aforesaid organisation had arrived announcing details of their latest projects.
What was that old joke about not being able to find Hamlet in a cigar factory?
I jest.
But if the people concerned - or any of their ilk - are reading this, DO regard it as your wake-up call.
Believe me, you could never sruvive inthe big outside world.

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