A Mini Rant.

You are the UberGeek.

 

Guig used to play it too, I'm not alone!

 

That's got me thinking actually. I s'pose if we're being generous with
regards to 'know at *bit* about' ie.. doesn't mean expert. Mine would
be.

- Guitars [a bit]
- Face to face business sales
- Retail display product design
- Business management
- Prostitution [natch]
- Giving the appearance of competence [most useful skill]

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Leave Brummies out of this.

 

That's a racist remark and I represent it.

 

Ginge wrote

So today I heard this little rant from a geezer who does lecturing about
stuff at some university or something. He was going on about how all
the trouble we are getting with the young Blacks and Yardie gangs and
how it is all down to illiterate bleeding Jamaicans.

After listen to this for a bit I suggested that it seemed he wasn't from
Jamaica "No mahn," he said, "I am from Trinidad."

 

Alan.T.Gower wrote

Absofuckinglootly.

 

Do

- Take your business elsewhere, thereby helping drive profits down
further and increase the likelihood of even more jobs being
moved to India

- Buy shares (you're not hard up, are you?) and make your feelings
as a shareholder known.

Don't

- Make any statement beginning with "I'm not racist but..."

 

Eh? How can you *possibly* work for IBM and not use the word
"performant"?

 

Agreed 100%. I'm not an expert at much, but I can fake being one

Your list is pretty work orientated - you need some more hobbies.

 

Yebbut, be fair, the prostitution bit takes up over 90% of his time...

 

Oh we've had that done to us in the good old public sector every 2-3
years for as long as I can remember. Complete stupidity most of the time
as all it does is reduce output because the workforce are less certain
about their personal positions and the organisational dislocation makes
getting things done much harder.

Well oh great captain of industry what is the point then because I
certainly don't see it.

Do you deliberately reorganise your business, workforce and working
methods all the time in order to keep yourself busy while smugly
believing that somehow it is justified? I very much doubt it.

The only changes you will make is if you need to make something new then
you'll buy the equipment and retrain your people or take on some new
ones. Or if the profitability is going to rat shit you'll sack some
people or buy a machine to do it cheaper or stop making the unprofitable
line. Those are reasonably legitimate business decisions and not the
corporate strategy bollocks that big companies enjoy doing and usually
get completely wrong.

 

Quite easily.

I feel enriched by not using it, I remain unsoiled from not having to
express myself as though I'm reading the voiceover for a multi-media
presentation of the latest marketing vision. I don't believe that
working in IT necessitates a full on interlock with someone else
conceptual dictionary.

In conclusion:
Plain English - that's what the world needs more of.

 

darsy wibbled incoherently...

I'd say it was your fault for doing alot of riding through Southall

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'performant' is a perfectly cromulent word.

 

this is going to be really depressing.

transport

whatever I end up doing at work - I always end up as "the expert" or at
least being perceived as one.

ticketing systems (I was actually identified as a world expert in that
particular field)

music - well pop music and stuff from the late 70s onwards. I now
realise after encountering the range of musical tastes on ukrm [1] that
I know very little about music at all.

Err that's it. I really am far duller than I thought I was. I need a new
life.

[1] thinking here of darsy [2], simonk, moosey and ben blaney to name a
few
[2] when's "now that's what I call darsy 2" coming out then?

 

What kind of management consultant are you? Lower costs = higher
profit. That's why we outsource to India/China/Taiwan.

 

Are Dyson's competitors products British made?