Posts by Rich Lock
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Just go and put a big plastic bag over your head
Steve, you know normal people don't do that sort of crap, right? :)
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I used to make leather jackets
Will have a wee chat to you at the blend about this, if that's alright.
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I fear that tailoring, like private whisky bottlings, has now become an occasional luxury without which I cannot do. It's a maturity thing.
I would tend to agree that bespoke is the only way to fly, but my beer budget does not lend itself well to having champagne tastes.
I also worry that it's inevitably the start of the slow slide down the slippery slope that ends with an upholstered leather chair by the fire at the Northern Club, and musings on how best to return that dearest of dear friends, Rodney, to his rightful seat in Epsom.
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A small part of me died recently when I realised my 1992 Faith No More tour t-shirt was too...distressed...to wear to their recent Vector arena gig. And for me to say that is really going some.
I console myself with the thought that my 1993 White Zombie T-shirt is still going strong.
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Also interesting that in his orgiinal post, James is quite happy to use the word 'opinion', but the word 'fact' appears...not at all.
And that he expects scientists to have the patience of Mother Theresa when dealing with endless and diversionary FoI requests, but it appears he can't hold his temper between one post and the very next when challenged.
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ACT are talking about a Lt Col as a rogue staffer.
Hmm. He's probably hiding upriver in the bush somewhere. We should send Martin Sheen in to...um...'deal'... with him.
I love the smell of ACT self-destructing in the morning.
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The firm winds up getting better productivity through giving people flexibility, the staff feel valued and don't leave as soon as a better offer eventuates.
Here's an article on home-working, to continiue to bang that particular drum. It's a shame the most relevant person they could think of to illustrate the point was Carrie from SatC, but some interesting points in there. Including this gem about management attitudes:
So if home working is so great, why aren't we all doing it already? As usual, it's the boss's fault. Hodson remembers trying to sell home working to a firm of engineers 20-odd years ago. "As I went through the economics, I touched on the thought that the company car wouldn't be necessary any more – and the managing director reached across the desk and took me by the tie in a stranglehold. He didn't even know he was doing it. It was his big shiny Jaguar that was sitting in the car park for seven and three-quarter hours a day."
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Lets not upset the poor fellow by reducing his considered answers to slogans.
Two wheels good! Four wheels bad!
Two wheels good! Four wheels bad!
Two wheels good! Four wheels bad!
Two wheels good! Four wheels bad!
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My point about working from home was not that it's for everyone, but that some (enough?) people will do it, perhaps only on some days of the week, to make it a possible option for reducing congestion.
Similarly, staggered working hours: I've worked in large firms where your arse had to be on the seat a certain number of hours a day, and at certain core times. But if you wanted to start at 7 in the morning and go home at 3, you could. Or start at 10 and go home at 6.30 - 7.
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Just a thought: has anyone ever seriously looked at/studied, or suggested things like staggered working hours, or working from home?
There must be a fair percentage whack of workers in the CBD who don't actually need to all be sitting at their desks in the same rabbit hutch as their co-workers, arriving and leaving at the same time.
Tax breaks for companies who institute flexitime and/or offsite working might go some way towards easing peak-hour congestion.
Or is that the sort of crazy thinking that earns a trip to the reeducation farm?