Posts

Showing posts with the label work

Meetings, meetings, and more meetings

Image
I have an aversion to meetings. I do understand some people like to discuss things and talk about things and that’s how they work best, but we don’t all work well that way. What’s best for one person may be very disruptive for another. The situation It's 4pm on Friday and we've come to the meeting. You explained everything perfectly in the first five minutes but you could've just emailed that info to us, and now we’re still sitting here an hour later. Why? That’s right, all the people who understood in the first five minutes need to take turns explaining the same thing in different ways to John from accounts, and now he's even more confused than when the meeting started. Within five minutes you gave us a spark of an idea to go and investigate more, but you’ve stopped us doing that for the past hour so there's fidgeting, window, floor, and ceiling staring, and possibly a touch of doodling (though I do that to stay focused on listening which can confuse pe...

Cycle Powered Internet Surfing

We were having one of the usual random discussions at work today, you know the kind, conversations that start off relatively normally, degrade into utter cobblers and then go off at weird tangents and you end up discussing cycle powered internet. Overview In order to surf the Internet, staff members need to use the pedal attachment on their PC to generate surfing minutes. Plus points Less work for IT Support as they no longer need to monitor every little thing and add anything remotely interesting to the insanely restrictive proxy. You think I’m joking? I tried to open google.co.nz the other day and got a message about it being banned because it was Arms and Weaponry. What the ???? There are no restrictions other than for rudey and/or illegal stuffs, so staff can check Hotmail if they want to… woo hoo… Increases fitness Allows bosses to easily see who is surfing the internet instead of working through the following easy to spot methods:  Massive increase in calf mus...