Where is the IET going?

Roy Bowdler:
John

I built carts from junk and ordered components from Maplin by mail order before it had branches. 

I only found out about Maplin when I seen a catalogue for sale in WH Smiths, long before they had stores up and down the country!   But there was always Tandy.

I know of one or two examples in employment where a man has felt unfairly “passed over” for a “token” female candidate and have lost count of the number of occasions where women have hit a glass ceiling, or suffered some disadvantage. 

Both situations are to the detriment of the employing company.

 

As I said in the previous post, not getting value is a perfectly valid reason to leave the IET. As is just “falling out of love” with the messaging and direction of travel. You have taken the trouble to voice your reasons.

 

Not just with direction of travel but what are they providing for their members?   If I felt I was getting value for money from my membership fee would I have any questions over the IET also promoting women in engineering or STEM for school children?   In fact, I actually support efforts in both.   For gender I question the equality if you're favouring one over the other.   For STEM tokenism isn't enough, IET should be working at a higher level to ensure that sufficient is taught in schools.

 

However “you can’t please all of the people all of the time” .       

That's a dismissive acceptance that you've failed.   But look at all the comments above.   Has any one justified the membership fee?   Has any given a compelling reason for anybody to be in the IET?   Simple answer is no.


The IET is so lost that it can't even justify why you should be a member.

 

Roy Bowdler:
John

I built carts from junk and ordered components from Maplin by mail order before it had branches. 

I only found out about Maplin when I seen a catalogue for sale in WH Smiths, long before they had stores up and down the country!   But there was always Tandy.

I know of one or two examples in employment where a man has felt unfairly “passed over” for a “token” female candidate and have lost count of the number of occasions where women have hit a glass ceiling, or suffered some disadvantage. 

Both situations are to the detriment of the employing company.

 

As I said in the previous post, not getting value is a perfectly valid reason to leave the IET. As is just “falling out of love” with the messaging and direction of travel. You have taken the trouble to voice your reasons.

 

Not just with direction of travel but what are they providing for their members?   If I felt I was getting value for money from my membership fee would I have any questions over the IET also promoting women in engineering or STEM for school children?   In fact, I actually support efforts in both.   For gender I question the equality if you're favouring one over the other.   For STEM tokenism isn't enough, IET should be working at a higher level to ensure that sufficient is taught in schools.

 

However “you can’t please all of the people all of the time” .       

That's a dismissive acceptance that you've failed.   But look at all the comments above.   Has any one justified the membership fee?   Has any given a compelling reason for anybody to be in the IET?   Simple answer is no.


The IET is so lost that it can't even justify why you should be a member.