Friday, January 28, 2011

Victim of changes


















Tune in next week for more of industrial sociology's greatest hits.
Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the shovel.

17 comments:

Laura said...

Hmmmm... I can't decide if you're the guy that likes gossip but doesn't want to admit he does (SO beneath you and all).. or if you're in there like a dirty shirt!

I'm going to go with my first thought. :P

Can't wait for next weeks greatest hit!

((Hugs))
Laura

Ethan said...

Bonfire! Bonfire! Bonfire!

that girl said...

I'm re-reading this and it reminds me of HR if it was run by Stalin... "invisibility," "departure," artfully and euphemistically arranged under the auspices of being shiny happy informative on each other people holding hands.

MRMacrum said...

So Randal with one L, trying to stay invisible in Cubicle World only ensures it I guess.

Randal Graves said...

laura, all of my t-shirts are cleaned & pressed.

ethan, double heh, as this tome comes from that decade. Leafing through it, how little corporate gobbledygook has changed.

thatgirl, don't make me report you to the commissar.

mrmacrum, one can sport a cloak of invisibility day & night, but if someone's got a ring of true seeing, forget it.

Tengrain said...

Graves, you swine!

Did IBM give you permission to reprint their employee manual?

Regards,

Tengrain

Randal Graves said...

Hitler's totally cool with it, trust me.

susan said...

Confucius (or was it Dilbert?) say, "On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger close to the 'escape' key."

Demeur said...

Coffee rings, mayo stains and gossip? Ha! The boss is just wondering when the grant money arrives so he can purchase the newest robotic librarian. The insourced tech guy from India has his papers in order and is ready to keep the system humming. And he doubles as the janitor too.

Randal Graves said...

susan, in America, you create enemy, in Russia, enemy create you!

And that's why I don't do stand up.

demeur, given the institutionalized duh foisted on & blithely accepted by America's young'uns, they'll need us flesh n' bloods for a while longer. In a couple of decades, well, I'll probably be Austeritied™ by then, so whew.

Tom Harper said...

"industrial sociology's greatest hits." All right! Rock on! I'll give it an 85; it's got a good beat and you can dance to it.

okjimm said...

hey..... I was gonna be a tailor made victim once..... but somebody lost my thread of consciousness.

S.W. Anderson said...

So, on top of his other perverse characteristics, Joe Liebermann foreswore gossip? Failed to keep up with the latest dish in the Senate cafeteria? And then, he announced he's not running for re-election.

Bwahhahaahaha!

Randal Graves said...

tom, I miss K-Tel. Sniff.

okjimm, oh what a tangled web Packers weave, when first they practice to deceive by throwing on first and second down.

SWA, and you see where that got him. Let Holy Joe's life be a lesson unto us all. Amen.

okjimm said...

I gotz this feeeling the Pack is gonna rock.... What other team has EVER started a game with and ONSIDE kick.....buy your chips & dip now... it's a gonna be goooooood!!!

Susan Tiner said...

Funny, I always brown bagged it.

Freida Bee said...

And, no mention of blogging....