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I have been reading a lot of crazy news stories lately, originating from South Africa. Maybe it has always been there in print, I'm just now noticing it...who knows.
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Sadly South Africa seems to be slowly spiraling down the same path as Zimbabwe. Maybe some CPians in SA will share their perspectives?
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Perhaps they now print the serious news on the back page. Possibly something to do with them being south of the Equator?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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You have something there! That's why everything from that part of world seems upside down!
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Crazy, this person came pretty close, too.
linky[^]
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Yeah! The Surgeon General is right: Cigarette smoking is hazardous, even to people around you! 
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Passive stabbing?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A woman has denied deliberately setting fire to a petrol pump ...
Yeah, that's going to stand up in court when they show the CCTV footage of her deliberately setting fire to the petrol pump. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hell, every time you wind someone up, they want to kill you.
You need to bear in mind that some just might.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Or anyone if you are addicted to nicotine.
I can tell you first hand. Thankfully I was able to quit.
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Good for you! I quit many years ago. I was stupid to start in the first place. 
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Nicotine is no reason to kill. Injure badly perhaps, but that can happen without nicotine too.
Ron Anders wrote: Thankfully I was able to quit.
Well done. I'm going to finish what I started 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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There are many good reasons to live for
There are few good reasons to die for
There are no good reasons to kill for
modified 2-May-15 6:50am.
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So this morning - the last day of the week just before a long weekend, so a positive moment you'd think, until we all got an email from management saying "no headphones in the office".. 
They've just spent millions having a new state of the art office built, all ultra-modern decked out like an Ikea catalogue with games rooms, sofas, a coffee shop and unlimited corporate slogans adorning the walls along the lines of "this is your office", "we want you to be happy", "work the way you want", and all the usual BS..
I guess whatever you want is fine as long as it's the same thing as what management want too.. this one email has probably undone a lot of the goodwill that's been built up within the company over the last few months
The stupidest thing is that I don't listen to music that much in the office, but the fact that someone felt the need to send email like this reflects badly on the attitude of management in itself.. what a way to start a bank holiday weekend.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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At this point, I would push back and demand an explanation for the rationale behind this. Depending on what they come back with, you may need to push back some more.
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In a smaller company I would challenge it, but this is my second stint here and I know (from experience) that the quickest way to get kicked out is to start introducing logical arguments.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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That doesn't sound like such a bad deal. The words "constructive dismissal" would seem appropriate here.
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Not sure it applies to contractors I remember it was like this the first time round, I just thought they'd turned a corner.
The lesson is (I guess) that it's not the bright, shiny, ultra-modern building that makes the company what it is - it's the people. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Ah. I hadn't realised you were a contractor.
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Yeah, so it's only a temporary thing for me.. It's just disappointing why some companies put the wrong kind of people in charge and develop a negative culture.
You can understand why Britain has no companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook or Space-X - we're too worried about people wearing headphones or not wearing corporate socks..
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I work for a US corporation and I can assure you that the US corporate style is far worse, whilst the flash IT world may be Google etc the majority of US corporations are even worse than those in the UK.
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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That sucks.. They must have had training from one of our vast number of Management Consultancies.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Been working in big finance, insurance, R&D, dot-com startup and marketing industries for the past 30 years. I've never seen anything so bad as this, much less worse.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: I just thought they'd turned a corner
You definitely haven't read enough Dilbert.
employee1: "Things are getting better."
employee2: "Well, yeah, they couldn't get any worse."
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You just need to find the right thing to push back with. I'm partial to fine products from Peoria[^].
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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