Posted: Wed 10 January, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: 1BEM, Cynicism |
I had to chuckle at the story on the BBC yesterday about Oldham’s residents having fallen for a large number of scams in 2006.
Having worked there for two years, I really can’t say that I find this surprising. A lot of the people in Oldham are at the lower end of the economic scale, poverty scale, whatever you want to call it, and will jump at any chance to get something for nothing.
Posted: Wed 10 January, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Work-related |
Things may be a bit quiet here today – my brain is definitely refusing to start up, having done a butt-load of work over the last week which involved moving and re-organising nearly 20,000 PDF files.
In addition, I’ve now got to read a document containing epic levels of project-management bullshit, and form an educated opinion on whether the company involved
- can locate and identify both arse and elbow, without getting the two confused
- can do what they say they can
- have any real technical understanding of what my place is trying to do (having had the relevant documents for nearly a year)
and
- are capable of finding their own arses with both hands and (if necessary) a flashlight.
On the evidence of the last three months, I’d have to say that the answers, in order, are “No”, “Maybe”, “Probably Not” and “I doubt it”.
Now I just need to find proper ways of expressing these concepts, having read the piece of shit they’ve thrown our way.
Joy.