Comments on: Various forms of constraint

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:43:23 +0000

Local Government. That was at his last job, in Peter Costello territory - most councils don’t have that sort of money to chuck around.

By: melgregg

melgregg — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:52:29 +0000

Oh Laura! Funny. Yes it’s not uncommon for the book to be handed out ‘for free’. Which already makes you wonder.

What industry does yr partner work in? Must be ok if they can afford team-building retreats. A friend of mine in high finance got sent on those too. Cocktails at night, paint-ball during the day. She showed me the bruises afterwards, and they seemed… symbolic.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:50:19 +0000

At my partner’s last workplace everyone in the ‘team’ was made to read WMMC?, indeed each person was given a copy. They were then sent on a team-building retreat with secret special guest who turned out to be none other than Dr Whatshisname the author of WMMC?. Only later on they found out it wasn’t really world-famous Dr Thingo but an actor their manager hired for the day to impersonate him.

By: barry

barry — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:54:12 +0000

gah, link was broken.

http://lifehacker.com/software/feature/geek-to-live-ban-timewasting-web-sites-146448.php

By: barry

barry — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:53:48 +0000

a heh. that’s a bit scary.

I do like this though

By: melgregg

melgregg — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:45:14 +0000

And I was just thinking of you…

By: barry

barry — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:39:43 +0000

i like using google reader, google reader notifier and growl. it means i get a nice little bubble show up in the corner of my window every time a new article drops into my reader. does make it hard to focus though….