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Post by Meadow on Jan 24, 2009 0:33:02 GMT
Quiet in here, innit? Not only are there very few posts, there's sod all in the way of spam to delete (mind you, I'll probably f**k it up anyway).
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Post by thevicar on Jan 24, 2009 10:44:26 GMT
I started new job this week so have been trying to look like a proper worker and not someone who just spends all day on the internets.
This work lark is really dull and the people seem to think I care about whatever the hell it is their business does (they're an interdealer broker - eh?). It appears their main business is to sit in front of a desk with a lot of phone lines and shout at each other, then go and get drunk. I am also suspicious of the fact that I appear to be working for the idiots who keep pushing the price of spectating up by buying these stupidly expensive corporate deals (I've seen how they spend a month on 'corporate hospitality', it made me weep).
I appear to have become part of the evil global capitalist conspiracy. When the hell did that happen? I used to be a labour party member (back when they were actually socialists) and now I'm part of the system that is hated as the root of all capitalism. I should have paid more attention at school or something. Those loony anti globalisation people are going to be throwing eggs at me and the last time I saw any of that was when they were tipping a police van over outside my pub in 2000. I'm not evil I'm just easily swayed by the pay cheque.
On top of all that it seems I may be required to think to do this job. All I wanted to do was be paid for mocking other peoples' inability to use the Oracle product set and generally piss about with important systems. This isn't fair, I've worked in IT for a decade and haven't been forced into actually using the brain for years, why would I want to start now? Its not like its life or death (and yes I have worked on such systems) but its all so much more serious and properly organised. I should've just gone contracting in civil service IT - incompetence is valued there because it often looks impressive and has the same outcome as most govt. IT projects (nothing happens).
Anyway, that's why I'm quiet at the moment.
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Post by votp on Jan 24, 2009 21:37:43 GMT
back when they were actually socialists You are only a youngster, surely you can't remember *that* far back? Power to the people! |
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Jan 25, 2009 8:51:35 GMT
back when they were actually socialists You are only a youngster, surely you can't remember *that* far back? Oh yes, i well remember Darlin' 'arold and his "Pound in your pocket" speech during the devaluation crisis in the 1960's. Those were the days, Wedgie, Footie, Auntie Babs, the "tired and emotional" George Brown, Michael Stewart, Sunny Jim Callaghan, et all. Even the Labour supporting Sunday Mirror got fed up of it and the last four lines of one of their Christmas Alphabets one year in the late sixties sticks in the mind.. Wilson and company, so hard to bear, but X was the vote that put them all there You are the public they've often deceived, and Z is for zero, that's what they've acheived! Socialist or not, it's all following the same pattern. Harold Wilson took over a strong economy from the Tories, exciting the people with talk of "social justice" and "the future being forged in the white heat of technology". Blair peddled much the same stuff 30-odd years later with much the same result, the economy run into an economic crisis. Then again, evry labour government there has ever been has run the country into an economic crisis. At least Harold had the sense to tell the Americans "NO" when they wanted us to help them in Vietnam, unlike Holy Tony. I was a Labour supporter up until Footy took over after the unions had kicked the Callaghan government in the teeth through greed. For these self-proclaimed Socialists to turn around and moan about Thatcherism when their actions brought it down upon us was just too much for me to bear. |
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Post by Meadow on Jan 25, 2009 21:12:19 GMT
I started new job this week so have been trying to look like a proper worker and not someone who just spends all day on the internets. This work lark is really dull and the people seem to think I care about whatever the hell it is their business does (they're an interdealer broker - eh?). It appears their main business is to sit in front of a desk with a lot of phone lines and shout at each other, then go and get drunk. I am also suspicious of the fact that I appear to be working for the idiots who keep pushing the price of spectating up by buying these stupidly expensive corporate deals (I've seen how they spend a month on 'corporate hospitality', it made me weep). I appear to have become part of the evil global capitalist conspiracy. When the hell did that happen? I used to be a labour party member (back when they were actually socialists) and now I'm part of the system that is hated as the root of all capitalism. I should have paid more attention at school or something. Those loony anti globalisation people are going to be throwing eggs at me and the last time I saw any of that was when they were tipping a police van over outside my pub in 2000. I'm not evil I'm just easily swayed by the pay cheque. On top of all that it seems I may be required to think to do this job. All I wanted to do was be paid for mocking other peoples' inability to use the Oracle product set and generally piss about with important systems. This isn't fair, I've worked in IT for a decade and haven't been forced into actually using the brain for years, why would I want to start now? Its not like its life or death (and yes I have worked on such systems) but its all so much more serious and properly organised. I should've just gone contracting in civil service IT - incompetence is valued there because it often looks impressive and has the same outcome as most govt. IT projects (nothing happens). Anyway, that's why I'm quiet at the moment.  Sometimes I'm sooo glad I'm a bored housewife with only the need to earn money in dead-end, short-term contracts on an occasional basis (and my 3 hours a week cleaning job). Incidently, I just read your tirade out to my husband. Having worked for the Home Office, albeit at a much lower level than yourself, he knows how much waste and incompetence there is in the civil service - he laughed. |
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Post by robotsmfc on Jan 26, 2009 23:26:24 GMT
For these self-proclaimed Socialists to turn around and moan about Thatcherism when their actions brought it down upon us was just too much for me to bear. And completing the cycle, the filthy legacy of that dispicable woman's treason against this country was openly embraced by the traitorous New Labour... She lost the premiership just over a month before I was born, but I would proudly still be in the front line of that demonstration should she ever be given a funeral at our expense. Unless, of course, the method of choice was an oversized pyre. I would question whether "Labour", as I believe they are now called, inherited a strong economy from Major's outgoing government. It had the illusion of growth in the same way that a coconut has the illusion of security... until it matures. As theoretically sound as it may be, I don't think monetarism works in practice (although I'm not an economist so don't quote me) and the whole deregulationist, laissez-faire argument that "The business of government is not the government of business" has now all too evidently been proven false. The economics of Classical Liberalism was outdated in 1900 (hence the Liberal party dropping it like a hot potato then), why on earth did Thatcher think that it woul work 80 years later? |
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