Not necessarily the longest
At the last NHS trust I worked at, I did the Key Skills For Managers course.

Through chatting to the other people (all of whom were medical), I found out something interesting:
When it comes to medical staff, there are those who aren't suited to the caring professions. They might be rough with the patients, the might have rubbish bedside manner, they might just be useless. rather than getting rid of these satff, the trust will invariably move them to a position whereby they aren't directly dealing with patients. So to a team leader role. Often, they aren't suited to the day-to-day management of staff, they trained to be a clinician, afterall, so they will cause problems in the team and complaints will be made and the person will be moved again, probably to a Assistant Department Manager role, where they will be equally useless and moved to a position where they aren't actually running anything, but are getting paid a lot to do it.

This means that there are a lot of clinical managers on £70K+ who have got into that position by being completely useless at everything they have turned their hands to.
(ScousersPet, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 15:37, 2 replies)

Blimey, I hadn't thought of it like that.
I'm not convinced that my last trust had the presence of mind to even do that though... they were terrified of the consultants. One of them even managed to wangle a laptop that was completely different to the standard trust-issue, because he didn't like the ordinary ones. Also, it was set up to boot up and run without any passwords, because he always had trouble remembering them.

When I spoke to my senior manager about this, the reponse was "Well, he knows how to fix you so he knows how to break you, it's worth keeping on his good side", followed by an explanation of how much money he brought into the hospital with all the operations he did.
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 15:47, closed)

Yep
To all of this. My direct line manager had a number of nicknames from "useless fat cunt" through to "sexfinger" due to the fact that everything he touched he fucked.

He was a paramedic who was removed from operational duties for being so fat that he once crouched down to care for a patient on the ground and wasn't able to stand back up. The fire brigade had to stand him up.

Similarly I know a number of people who work on the response cars because no fucker can stand to work on an ambulance with them for 12 minutes, let alone 12 hours.
( Undercovercarrot got done for gross misconduct on..., Thu 6 Sep 2012, 19:17, closed)

"Sexfinger" is possibly my favourite nickname ever :)
I think I'm going to have to steal that one...
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 19:34, closed)

^^^This^^^
Oh, so very much, this.
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Thu 6 Sep 2012, 21:48, closed)

Happy candle day!

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 0:18, closed)

Many fanks.

( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Fri 7 Sep 2012, 16:48, closed)