Being treated like a mushroom
Outsider is not always the hard-hearted cynic that many believe. He really, really does feel sorry for many of the hard-working people at AMP Limited who have been having difficult barbecue conversations.
Indeed, Outsider was reminded of just how difficult things were for loyal AMPers when he listened to AMP Capital’s head of Investment Strategy and Chief Economist, Shane Oliver, at last week’s Financial Services Council Leaders’ Summit in Melbourne.
Sitting on a panel of local and international experts discussing “Global and Regulatory Trends”, Oliver reflected that the presence of someone from AMP might seem incongruous on such a panel.
He then promptly added that if outsiders were puzzled by what was happening inside AMP, then so were long-serving staffers such as he.
So Outsider, who has often been treated as a mushroom in the workplace, certainly has a modicum of sympathy for the fungal victims at AMP.
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