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How Quaint : Organ Failure Map

Get a hold of this.

Issued by one of my workplaces today.

“…….Staff returning from travel to greater metropolitan Melbourne, Mexico, Panama, USA, Canada and Japan should be treated as follows:

1. If a staff member has been to one of these locations and has been mixing with local school children (in a group of 10 or more) then they should be excluded from work. College Directors and Functional Unit managers should make every effort to enable these staff to perform some work from home during their exclusion.
2. If the staff member has not mixed with a group of 10 or more school children then they may return to work, but be excluded if they develop any influenza-like symptoms.
3. If a member of staff is currently excluded because they have travelled to one of the infected locations, but have not mixed with a group of 10 or more local school children, they may now return to work as long as they are not displaying any flu-like symptoms.
4. If they have been directed into quarantine by NSW Health they must complete the quarantine period….”

Well, that rules out going to see my daughter in Melbourne right ?

Oh man……..I’m starting to get worried.

Poopie Pant Brigade

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Two things always fascinate me with working with others, most expecially in large organisations.

The silent white whisper and the put-you-down humour antics.

The first is a well known and highly refined skill of switching between normal office conversation to a barely audible whisper primarily reserved for bitching, gossip mongering and personal, facile and juvenile innuendos.

The second skill of put-you-down humour antics requires a great deal of pyshcological bullying experience or a set of ice blue eyes and pyscho-curly hair to match. Generally the second attribute is reserved for face-to-face encounters, usually ( consequentially ) in the presence of others and often reserved for the victim in an ongoing and derogatory manner befitting school yard tit-for-tat ….mainly tat.

The silent white whisper skill requires the user and the receiver to “collaborate”….thick as thieves in on a supposed joke, piece of information swap or just plain downright bitch antics. It can also be a phone conversation where the receiver and sender use instant messaging to alert each other of the incoming call and using the volume feature on the phone turned up on the microphone end and down on the speaker end to keep a continuous flow of trite rolling from one end to the other.

The put-down humour however is less planned and more advantageous….barbed shit-canning, fun-poking, derogatory and stand-over by nature. Some say the attribute owes it’s origons to cultural under-development however I’m of the opinion that it is a highly refined cross-border osmotic range of behaviours usually reserved for the infirm, mentally ill, insecure or for juvenile-trapped-adults-with-poopy-pants.

Either /or both traits and skills are little more than a entry point for an unhealthy workplace. Both human attributes are easily defined as offensive and inconsiderate.

If you value either you need your head read and failing that please consider pushing your own vaporiser key into the slot for activation.

Have a lovely day

Craig : My Buddy, My Friend

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Craig Golding

Passed away 6th January in the arms of his loving family. Craig my buddy and my good friend I will always remember the beautiful person you were.

I will miss you dearly and feel very upset that we wont share anymore summers together but as long as I shall live I will look after Raelee and your dear little daughter Willow.

You were like a brother to me and you showed me the strength in being myself.

For that I thankyou and will treasure that about you.

I will miss you so much.

Be at peace now and know that I loved you.

Rest in peace.

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