"What is going on? There is definitely something going on, but the public — stakeholders included — isn’t being informed."A few weeks ago some lady said that the EPO had halted recruitment of ongoing applicants (job applications), even successful ones. HR scandal? Some sources told us that there are internal messages to that effect, insinuating if not reaffirming a long-rumoured hiring freeze which may or may not signal potential layoffs to come (15% is the number we've heard).
What is going on? There is definitely something going on, but the public -- stakeholders included -- isn't being informed. Not fully and properly anyway...
Is the new EPO President, Mr. Campinos, deleting comments? See comment #3 here. To quote:
A couple of days ago, I posted a congratulatory and encouraging message to the comments box of the EPO President’s blog. Till now though, the Blog continues to report “No comments”.
Can anybody here give me any reassurance, that my message will one day appear?
Readers, what do you think? Am I wasting my time, posting comments to the Campinos Blog? Perhaps comments to it, that are not obsequious enough for the blog-keepers, struggle to get through to publication? Perhaps to comment you anyway have to be an EPO employee?
Who knows? Other than (of course) Mr Campinos and his innermost circle? Meanwhile, what’s the point of engaging, I ask myself?
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link) and we last mentioned him yesterday in relation to the UPC and UIMP (which had made his 'master', Battistelli, a 'fake doctor'). ⬆
Comments
Johnnny
2018-07-11 08:47:21
In the original design of the EPC, the idea was that vice-presidents would be mandated by the administrative council and would counter-balance the powers of the president. That idea does not work when the president gets to choose them personally.