I apologize off the bat for the extraneous punctuation in the above sentence, but I'm trying to express my absolute disillusionment with...how shall I put this?
I'm disillusioned with the people in my workplace whose role it is to guide me...the people who are paid the big bucks to know more than I do. Do I covet their jobs? Good question. Up until today, not really. Oh, down the road maybe, but I'm happy with my responsibility load.
After today, I know I'll be applying to join their ranks the first chance I get.
"But," I hear you ask, "What happened today that changed your mind?"
One word, a neologism of this new Internet age actually, tucked glaringly in a sentence of official government guidance for me to refer to in my day-to-day work: "According to Wikipedia..."
Wikipedia!?!
Since when does a person who is paid to be a credible source of government policy guidance turn to Wikipedia for a definition of a word?
This is wrong in so many ways, I don't know where to begin...except to want to shout "Buy a dictionary!"
In frustration,
Lori
ab·surd (b-sûrd, -zûrd) adj. 1. Ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable. 2. Inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense 3. Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or value in human life or in the universe. N. The condition or state in which humans exist in a meaningless, irrational universe wherein people's lives have no purpose or meaning. [Latin absurdus, out of tune, absurd : ab-, intensive pref.; see ab-1 + surdus, deaf, muffled.]
Monday, June 29, 2009
Monday, June 01, 2009
Cancer + Gambling = Feel Good Story
Okay, this does not happen every day:
As the spokesperson from the betting agents points out: "Never in 30 years in the business have I been so pleased to pay a winning client £10,000."
Jon, I hope you make it to next year, and your £100,000 payout.
Lori
A Buckinghamshire man diagnosed with terminal cancer is to collect a second winning payout of £5,000 after betting he would stay alive. (BBC News)I don't really approve of gambling...and I sure as shootin' don't believe in cancer, but the two combined can make a great story.
As the spokesperson from the betting agents points out: "Never in 30 years in the business have I been so pleased to pay a winning client £10,000."
Jon, I hope you make it to next year, and your £100,000 payout.
Lori