Rebellion
Is it good or bad to be a rebel? It depends on what you’re rebelling against, the answer to which, if you’re a juvenile is: ‘what have you got’. People rebel against many things; smoking bans, going bald. They even rebel against getting fat, by wearing the clothes that were merely tight on them a few months ago but now are pushing the proprieties of lycra, the laws of physics and the principals of good taste to the limits.
We’re back in open plan. While in terms of office space it’s like an open prairie (if we’re raising pissed-off office drones, then it’s a bumper crop this year) but which kind of puts me in mind of a battery chicken farm, with everyone aligned just so.
Rebellion should strike at the repressor, not at society in general - the rebel alliance blew up the Death Star, they didn’t bomb bus-stops - and so the simple option of continuing in open plan as if nothing had happened is not really an option - especially if this used to include closing the door to your office and knocking one out. So how to stick it to the man? Well, I’ve liberated my PC from where it used to hang in a wire cage under my desk and placed it on my desktop as a start.
Under the desk, one had to bend over every morning to switch it on. I didn’t like this for three reasons - 1) it’s a bad back waiting to happen, 2) working here you bend over and take it in the ass figuratively, I don’t want to invite a literal interpretation and 3) I’m damned if I’m going to genuflect to a machine every morning, once we start doing what the machines tell us instead of having them do what we want, we’re on the path to making ‘Terminator’ a reality. I mean, who wants to be ruled by Arnie? Apart from Californians?
We’re back in open plan. While in terms of office space it’s like an open prairie (if we’re raising pissed-off office drones, then it’s a bumper crop this year) but which kind of puts me in mind of a battery chicken farm, with everyone aligned just so.
Rebellion should strike at the repressor, not at society in general - the rebel alliance blew up the Death Star, they didn’t bomb bus-stops - and so the simple option of continuing in open plan as if nothing had happened is not really an option - especially if this used to include closing the door to your office and knocking one out. So how to stick it to the man? Well, I’ve liberated my PC from where it used to hang in a wire cage under my desk and placed it on my desktop as a start.
Under the desk, one had to bend over every morning to switch it on. I didn’t like this for three reasons - 1) it’s a bad back waiting to happen, 2) working here you bend over and take it in the ass figuratively, I don’t want to invite a literal interpretation and 3) I’m damned if I’m going to genuflect to a machine every morning, once we start doing what the machines tell us instead of having them do what we want, we’re on the path to making ‘Terminator’ a reality. I mean, who wants to be ruled by Arnie? Apart from Californians?
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