FRB

With some embarrassment, I admit that when I saw FRB on my paper blog of hate, I had no idea what it was, or rather what the initialisation stood for.

After some searching on t'internet for the FRB i was none the wiser.

When a colleague of mine suggested that the 'F' might stand for a common prefix around these parts, the search became a little easier, now I was just looking for RB. We quickly realised what this was, and has similarities with the OWC, but unlike the OWC, I'm not going tell of what RB stands for.

The FRB, is like a second hand car salesman, and is very good at selling terrible ideas to a gullible audience, in this situation, there will always be those who can see through the FRB, but the FRB's trade is well developed, he targets the gullible in the group until the general enthusiasm dwarfs those who can see through the FRB.

The FRB never finishes a project which he starts, and posses a finely tuned ability to start a project and run with it until it is just about to go Pete Tong, just before it goes Pete Tong, the FRB handovers the project (presumably to start a new project) with no suggestion that the project is doomed for failure. Months are spent trying to untangle the mess after handover. The FRB blissfully continues ignorant of these problems, starting more projects with dead ends.

The FRB has a love affair with off-shore manufacturing, and is obsessive in the quest to move all manufacturing to China in an attempt to save costs. The FRB also takes great pleasure in encouraging Chinese manufacturers to plagiarise the products and ideas of others, in the mind of a FRB this is a great business decision, but because the FRB never sees a project through to completion, the FRB never has to deal with the fall out from Manufacturing in China, which often leads to months of rework and upgrades to prevent legs being lost to machinery (something which must be a design feature in Chinese manufacturing).