Fighting the system
Posted on June 28, 2007
Filed Under Summer, Asides, Rant, funny, holiday, work |
Yesterday, I was reading a free copy of the Irish Indo in a cafe (I’d never buy the rag). The back page had a story about an English gang who had just gone on trial for allegedly stealing something like stg£50M last year. The proseceuting lawyer said it was done out of ‘greed’. Really?
Today I was using a map to find a street in central Dublin. While perusing said map, I saw Upper Digges Street described in shorthand as ‘Digges St Up‘. I wonder if the OPW or the Roadworks Dept have a depot on the street - it would be rather fantastic if they did.
I had a friend who used to work on an assembly line for an electronics company. Part of her job was to ‘tick’ the QC box if the gadget passed the Quality checks. She did this hundreds of times a day. In an effort to brighten her day, she used to draw smilies 
instead of the tick. Inevitably, she got found out. The QC manager was shocked, and angry, and sacked her for abusing her position!!
It’s good that mapmakers and assembly line workers still retain a certain ‘ability’ to fight the tedium of their jobs. And so should the rest of us.
Which is a roundabout way of saying I need a holiday, or at least, some sunny weather!!
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