UNA SEMANA EN EL AEROPUERTO. Diario de Heathrow.

Aunque la mayoría de sus usuarios lo consideran poco más que un espacio donde tienen que pasar unas horas en su viaje a otro lugar, para otro muchos la terminal es una oficina permanente, una oficina donde se aloja una fuerte burocracia a través de una serie de plantas prohibidas para el público general. El trabajo hecho aquí no era el apropiado para aquellos entusiastas de ver sus propias identidades aduladas rápidamente

Han sido necesarios veinte años y medio millón de personas para construir La Terminal, y ahora que finalmente está en funcionamiento, su negocio continúa avanzando ponderosamente y solo por comité. Capa sobre capa de puestos de trabajo ( . . . ) dan una indicación de la escala de jerarquías que se han de consultar antes de comprar un monitor nuevo para un ordenador o recolocar un banco. (página 71)

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A WEEK AT THE AIRPORT, A Heathrow Diary.

"Although the majority of its users regarded it as little more than a place where they had to spend a few hours on their way to somewhere else, for many others the terminal served as a permanent office, one that accommodated a thousand-strong bureucracy across a series of floor off limits to the general public. The work done here was not well suited to those keen on seeing their own identities swiftly or flatteringly reflected back at them through their labour. The terminal had taken some twenty years and half a million people to build, and now that it was finally in operation, its business continued to proceed ponderously and only by committee. Layer upon layer of job titles (Operational Resource Planning Manager, Security Training and Standards Advicer, Senior HR Business Partner) gave an indication of the scale of the hierarchies that had to be consulted before a new computer screen could be acquired or a brench repositioned." (Page, 71)

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