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westernindAppalling office politics taking place. I hates it, I hates it I do. But I'm guessing it happens wherever office moves are planned.
I also hate bullying managers. The technique used by this particular specimen is to state an assumption as a fact. If you point out that it's an assumption, he waits a few minutes, then states it again as a fact. When you challenge it again, he then labels you as unhelpful. Personally I think he suffers from being stressed and insecure in his job but I'm buggered if I'm letting it mess up my priorities.
And now, a rant on terminology which is not-worksafe. No, I mean it. Not work-safe.
Those closer to me will know that, inspired by the Vagina Monologues, I've been doing my bit to reclaim the word CUNT; if someone uses the word as a derogatory noun (invariably to describe a male person) in my presence, it triggers a happy-dreamy muttered free-association spielette: lovely rooound cunt, furry cunt, broown, friendly-vowelled, cunt-cunt-cunt, positive word for female genitalia. La la la. "Use words for the appropriately gendered genitalia to describe the lowlives of the relevant gender", is wot I sa. Seems only fair.
Cunts aside, ("Cunts aside! cuntcuntcunt, yo ho ho!") another term has recently crawled into my field of view.
Cocksucker. What's going on here, then? Why is 'cocksucker' a term of abuse? Don't you want your cocks sucked*? Isn't it a Good Thing?
Yeah, there's an element of disingenuity. I have a perfectly-formed opinion on why it's a term of abuse; I've never heard it used to describe a woman. So, I'd be interested to hear a defence. Is there anyone out there who's prepared to argue that 'cocksucker' is value-free and not at all homophobic?
Cocksucker! Let's reclaim the word!
One last thing. I could turn the comments function off. But I'm not gonna. Play nice, no overt abuse please. But do feel free to use the word COCKSUCKER as a term of praise and positive concordances. Or even CUNT. :-)
* this rhetorically addressed to those of you as have cocks not quims. Incidentally, 'quimsucker' is a neologism as yet, I would argue, free of negative connotations.
Can you tell it's Friday afternoon?
I also hate bullying managers. The technique used by this particular specimen is to state an assumption as a fact. If you point out that it's an assumption, he waits a few minutes, then states it again as a fact. When you challenge it again, he then labels you as unhelpful. Personally I think he suffers from being stressed and insecure in his job but I'm buggered if I'm letting it mess up my priorities.
And now, a rant on terminology which is not-worksafe. No, I mean it. Not work-safe.
Those closer to me will know that, inspired by the Vagina Monologues, I've been doing my bit to reclaim the word CUNT; if someone uses the word as a derogatory noun (invariably to describe a male person) in my presence, it triggers a happy-dreamy muttered free-association spielette: lovely rooound cunt, furry cunt, broown, friendly-vowelled, cunt-cunt-cunt, positive word for female genitalia. La la la. "Use words for the appropriately gendered genitalia to describe the lowlives of the relevant gender", is wot I sa. Seems only fair.
Cunts aside, ("Cunts aside! cuntcuntcunt, yo ho ho!") another term has recently crawled into my field of view.
Cocksucker. What's going on here, then? Why is 'cocksucker' a term of abuse? Don't you want your cocks sucked*? Isn't it a Good Thing?
Yeah, there's an element of disingenuity. I have a perfectly-formed opinion on why it's a term of abuse; I've never heard it used to describe a woman. So, I'd be interested to hear a defence. Is there anyone out there who's prepared to argue that 'cocksucker' is value-free and not at all homophobic?
Cocksucker! Let's reclaim the word!
One last thing. I could turn the comments function off. But I'm not gonna. Play nice, no overt abuse please. But do feel free to use the word COCKSUCKER as a term of praise and positive concordances. Or even CUNT. :-)
* this rhetorically addressed to those of you as have cocks not quims. Incidentally, 'quimsucker' is a neologism as yet, I would argue, free of negative connotations.
Can you tell it's Friday afternoon?
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Date: 2005-04-17 09:25 am (UTC)Having volunteered to help out boss the previous night (because she was looking desperate), we spent three hours moving little cut-out colour-coded spraymounted paper furniture around an A3 plan. It took a small fraction of that time to work out that the fundamental issue is, they're trying to get too many people into the space. (Although it would help if you could move the pesky pillars that hold up the ceilings!) Our team will be crammed into approximately half the floor space we have currently, and there's no room for expansion. Nowhere to put the contractors that the web and VLE teams have needed in the last year.
Coats are meant to be put in central coat cupboards. I bet my boss that they'd end up slung over chairs because people want them near their desks, but she wasn't disagreeing.
No-one who codes or edits texts wants to be near Marketing and Registry, who are always on the phone. Our current environment is pretty quiet and I'm pretty sure productivity will take a dive all round. But, 'only fight the battles you can win', and this battle is long over. We're definitely moving, so we can only make the best of it. I suspect that there will be problems for several months, then there will be another shake-up and move-round to accommodate the inevitable new joiners.
When you were there, how much did noise carry? Also, are those pillars round or square, and what are they made of?