Random whinging

From announcements → RO Show 1st March. Doesn’t belong there, so moved here…

In reply to Steve:

Do work for banks = bonus payment for screwing up
Personally I couldn’t live with myself if I did option 3

That’s why I clean toilets (among other incredibly varied tasks).
I used to work (term used lightly, I bailed when I saw what was going on) for a small management consultancy firm, which seemed to me to be people throwing money at some random outsider to parade around like they owned the place, tell the company staff all the things they are doing wrong (including, I might add, the power to fire people who might be seen as a threat to ones self-importance) and then to bugger off before anybody realises that one was generally were talking out a a hole in their…
There might be some good, competent, Management Consultants. The ones I met reminded me of a gathering of the worst sort of wide boys – Del Boy would be utterly outclassed. Here’s hoping they all died of Herpes. That sounds cruel, but I can’t imagine how many lives were ruined through arbitrary firing of “problem quotients”, instituting ridiculous rules that had no basis other than “must been seen to be doing something”, and cashing in while running an ailing company or few into the ground. Among other things, some of them far worse but better left unsaid.

My pay might suck, but at least I’m reasonably happy in what I do, and about the most stressful thing I have to deal with is whether or not the provisions have arrived in time (but it is only my responsibility to give them out, getting them to me is somebody else’s headache).

Plus comments from Tories that are best described politely as extremely far removed from accurate.

Oh, yes, like wiping out Winter Fuel Payments to ex-pats living in France because their rules state that the payment is granted to those whose average winter temperature is less than the average temperature of the warmest part of the UK. As most of France is colder, the Tories diddled the figures by adding in Guyana because (thanks to some complicated territorial nonsense), it has a département number and it is technically a part of France/Europe. However being more or less on the EQUATOR, it is not a part of METROPOLITAN FRANCE (ie “the mainland”). But it is warm enough to push the entire average temperature over the limit thus disqualifying the entire country.
Of course, this is announced at about the same time as they announced an intention to give themselves 11% pay rises while continuing the freeze on public sector pay. I think Guido Fawkes was 409 years too early. :-/

Particularly annoying when you know they have undeclared interests

When has a politician of any part of the spectrum ever said anything without it being in their interest? Speaking of which, it is seemingly enlightening watching the fall-out of the OGM/GMO situation in Europe. Kinda makes you wonder how many palms were greased. But, hey, we might be hearing the name José Bové before too long…

My pay might suck, but at least I’m reasonably happy in what I do, and about the most stressful thing I have to deal with is whether or not the provisions have arrived in time (but it is only my responsibility to give them out, getting them to me is somebody elses headache).

I tell people: “If you don’t enjoy what you’re doing **** off and do something you do enjoy”

I’ve had the response: “it’s alright for you, you enjoy what you’re doing” and I usually step away and mock bang my head on the wall…

That said I don’t get paid enough – barely enough to keep the cats in the style that they wish to maintain.¹

I think Guido Fawkes was 409 years too early. :-/

Oh bad idea destroying property that looks nice and could be used later by useful people.
The wife is in favour of taking out the people and leaving the property – she mentioned a neutron bomb, but I think that’s a bit indiscriminate on the casualties. Lot’s of tourists for a start.

¹ What? You thought I mattered except as a member of staff for a cat or three? :)

I tell people: “If you don’t enjoy what you’re doing **** off and do something you do enjoy”

Easier said than done, these days.

barely enough to keep the cats in the style that they wish to maintain

Oh, I have it easy. My cat isn’t a gourmet and will eat anything from premium cat food to barely-dead roadkill.

Mom’s cats, on the other hand… want this type of kibble and this sort of food in these flavours and…

The wife is in favour of taking out the people and leaving the property – she mentioned a neutron bomb

I like her!

a bit indiscriminate on the casualties. Lot’s of tourists for a start.

Collateral damage?

During and immediately after the war those high priests of Mammon who are now called entrepreneurs were called spivs, or shysters. I think it was Bernie Cornfeld who first persuaded the government of the time that asset-stripping was good for the country. After that La Grande Saboteuse (there is no such thing as society) imported from the USA the worship of managers, a sacred class for whom greed is a virtue. Without trust, without society, no interest but one’s own can be pursued. People merely with a skill or dedication to a profession, are now recognized as hopelessly behind the times, as enemies of the new faith, even.

Managerialism promotes a form of jargon; useful to see who salutes the new flags and who is treacherous enough to be capable of independent thought. Managerialism promotes tractable infantility – cleverness is a threat to the status quo. Change is what terrorists seek, isn’t it?

My neighbour, after he had baled out of Thorn Ericsson, thought it might be fun to impart his business expertise by teaching at one of those academies in a mock-Victorian mansion surrounded by rhododendrons in deepest Surrey. He showed me the curriculum. Yoga and Business Studies, Letter-writing for the Executive, .. . I gave him due warning.

Doesn’t living in France come under the treason law still?

To quote from Augustus Carp Esq : Unfortunately the career of diplomacy requires knowledge of the French language, with its attendant moral dangers.

Mom’s cats, on the other hand… want this type of kibble and this sort of food in these flavours and…

Must be predominantly fish flavour¹, in small batches, flavours should not be repeated without 2 or the alternates in between. Failure to serve at the selected time (their choice) will be responded to with walks on keyboards, jumping on and killing of foot and other simon’s cat behaviour.

¹ Two would actively vote for baby bird flavour if available, the third² won’t eat rabbit flavour commercial stuff but gets his own rabbits from the local woodland edge.

² It was supposed to be 2 but the second bird fancier was thrown into our garden, minus claws for climbing. She’s a perfect model for the Felix ad with large appealing eyes and an addiction to “Dreamies”