So without further ado:
Hi! I am alive, but I am lazy, busy and pretty content with life so haven't been online that much.
With that out of the way, does anyone remember Donald Rumsfeld? He was the evil warmongering mini-Bush who looked like Skeletor (as opposed to Dick Cheney - the evil warmongering mini-Bush who looked like Harold from Neighbours, or Paul Wolfowitz - the evil warmongering mini-Bush who looked like Kermit the Frog).
Old Rummy (as he liked to be known) made a very famous speech once regarding not knowing what the fuck he was talking about. It went like this;
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
You may remember it.
I was reminded of this speech the other day when my computer helpfully presented me with the following message;
Clearly it was expecting a known unknown, but was presented with an unknown unknown. No wonder it crashed, the poor thing.At least we know where Rummy's been working these last few years.
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Talking of things that have been away for a while, one of our senior managers has been out all day at 'Absence Management Training', a course designed to minimise your staff's time off from work through a combination of incentives and threats of casual violence (probably).
Number of staff that this senior manager manages?
Zero.
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And finally, it's back on youtube - the finest film ever made! Go watch it, butthorns!
4 comments:
Hello, popped in on the off chance and there was a post! Glad to hear you are doing OK.
That absence management course must be on special, I know loads of managers who have been on them but again they don't manage people. Odd, very odd! :-)
What a wonderfully cool film. But have you seen Gary Busey these days? Total plastic surgery failure.
Thanks mate, never need to watch any of that ever again.
Happy Frog - even more puzzling is why it takes an entire day out of the office to learn to manage non-existent employees. I sense a scam in the air!
Madame DeFarge - indeed, it looks like someone from Polyfilla tried to fill in all the cracks and dimples. Not a pretty sight...
Anonymous - I've saved you an hour and a half one damp Sunday afternoon :)
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