Porsche pulled a blinder there!

[threaded]

Anyone see that one coming yesterday: VW moves to 60+% of Scania (and it already has 50+% of MAN) then a short while later Porsche makes move to go to 50+% of VW.

That Ferdinand Piëch is one scarily clever guy, what a blinder.

Another thought that struck me is when was the last time you heard of an Engineer running a blue chip in the UK?

[DodgyAgent]

Anyone see that one coming yesterday: VW moves to 60+% of Scania (and it already has 50+% of MAN) then a short while later Porsche makes move to go to 50+% of VW.

That Ferdinand Piëch is one scarily clever guy, what a blinder.

Another thought that struck me is when was the last time you heard of an Engineer running a blue chip in the UK?

Gavin Patterson head of BT retail mech engineer
Joe Garner head of HSBC retail mech engineer

I think you will find an awful lot of engineers are running banks, retail companies, engineering companes and everything else

[Fred Bloggs]

I think you will find an awful lot of engineers are running banks, retail companies, engineering companes and everything else

That's right. I forget the statistics but EC(UK) (used to be the Engineering Council) published a document last year about many things to do with Engineers employment. I was stunned to see the statistics relating to the number of Engineers in very senior positions in FTSE 100 companies. There were far more Engineers in the most senior positions than accountants. I was very surprised.

[DodgyAgent]

That's right. I forget the statistics but EC(UK) (used to be the Engineering Council) published a document last year about many things to do with Engineers employment. I was stunned to see the statistics relating to the number of Engineers in very senior positions in FTSE 100 companies. There were far more Engineers in the most senior positions than accountants. I was very surprised.

And it is a big problem, because Engineers are highly sought after not just for engineering jobs but also by banks, retailers and just about everyone else.

Unlike IT graduates.. I wonder why

[Diver]

And it is a big problem, because Engineers are highly sought after not just for engineering jobs but also by banks, retailers and just about everyone else.

Unlike IT graduates.. I wonder why

Because we Engineers are the Elite, of course.

[DodgyAgent]

Because we Engineers are the Elite, of course.

You still need us though

[Diver]

You still need us though

Not really, I went back to uni and did my HND computing

[DodgyAgent]

Not really, I went back to uni and did my HND computing

so who wipes your ar*e then?

[Diver]

so who wipes your ar*e then?

Oh yeh!

The downtrodden underlings, I forgot about them

[sasguru]

so who wipes your ar*e then?

Psychotic East European "care" workers.
HTH