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 
IP : Your Rights
- I paid Brian Gardner for the privelege of using his code
- I continue to attribute his contributions to the code and have not in anyway removed his construction reference in the source code anywhere only added my only inclusion as a designer and web developer
- I understand the rights of others as my contributions to the web are made under Creative Commons 3.0 or 2.5 which this site is.
- When somebody builds something then I have no issue with the look / feel being emulated….in time we all want to look different and we natuarally make changes over time
- A web site should never be static…anyone that reads my sites knows that I change the look / feel constantly
- I believe in respecting the rights and IP of those brilliant people who build stuff on the web…likewise add your name to the code and use it but ensure that your not locking people out by removing attribution to them…in fact you’ll be embraessed in years to come when people start pointing back via the Internet Archive.
The following is the email I sent back to my friend and work colleague;
Read More...Great stuff [edited]Point your son to http://creativecommons.orgI have no issue with anyone using anything except my credit card to pretend they are me so the them is of tiny consequence. I am currently in battles with a client who wont honour the IP rights of the designer who spent weeks coding a wikispace only to have her rights dishonoured by someone who wont attribute her IP.It’s all about attribution which would be good to explore with your son….about respecting the rights of the designers and not ignoring the licensing of the code never mind the pictures.I’m going to blog about this today so ask your son to read my latest post.I hope it will make some sense and when I can get the comments feature fixed he will be able to reply with you in tow
