General Chit Chat

[Harry Genshaw]

Wife's, for me: "Go on then, let's see you sort that!"

Thought it would have been

A place for everything and everything in its place

[TANGODANCER]

Wife's, for me: "Go on then, let's see you sort that!"

Thought it would have been

A place for everything and everything in its place

That's mine, not hers, but yeah....

[KeyserSoze]

Is there a method to putting together a compelling argument for work purposes? I have the ammo i think i need but wonder if there's something management might appreciate more (numbers and that)

Make sure you get in "realise the potential....."

Numbers, yes. Proof points - what's supporting your hypothesis?

Do I have to put money in, to get benefit out? What's the ask on that. How will we measure success? So how do we prove it's delivered what you said it would? If it's financial what's the Internal Rate of Return....yadda, yadda..

Oh and is it a silver bullet....

thanks guys, plus bobo and teh others

seems like it went well.

[TANGODANCER]

Is there a method to putting together a compelling argument for work purposes? I have the ammo i think i need but wonder if there's something management might appreciate more (numbers and that)

Make sure you get in "realise the potential....."

Numbers, yes. Proof points - what's supporting your hypothesis?

Do I have to put money in, to get benefit out? What's the ask on that. How will we measure success? So how do we prove it's delivered what you said it would? If it's financial what's the Internal Rate of Return....yadda, yadda..

Oh and is it a silver bullet....

thanks guys, plus bobo and teh others

seems like it went well.

Can somebody quantify all this and round it down to essentialities?

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

You're just making it up now Tango

[KeyserSoze]

someone did ask me to bulletise something once.

[TANGODANCER]

You're just making it up now Tango

Are you sure...?

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

You're just making it up now Tango

Are you sure...?

Errr...no

[Prufrock]

Is there a method to putting together a compelling argument for work purposes? I have the ammo i think i need but wonder if there's something management might appreciate more (numbers and that)

Make sure you get in "realise the potential....."

Numbers, yes. Proof points - what's supporting your hypothesis?

Do I have to put money in, to get benefit out? What's the ask on that. How will we measure success? So how do we prove it's delivered what you said it would? If it's financial what's the Internal Rate of Return....yadda, yadda..

Oh and is it a silver bullet....

thanks guys, plus bobo and teh others

seems like it went well.

I've just come back from a 'round-table discussion' where someone started talking about 'heuristics' 'game theory' and at one point explained how his company had created a 'mediation room' on second life! My notes descended into a stream-of-consciousness rant at this point.

[Burnden Paddock]

We're all about 'starters for ten' and working on a 'holistic level' at the moment.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

We're all about "shall we stick a curry in the microwave at lunchtime and see what happens" at the moment

[bobo the clown]

I've just come back from a 'round-table discussion' where someone started talking about 'heuristics' 'game theory' and at one point explained how his company had created a 'mediation room' on second life! My notes descended into a stream-of-consciousness rant at this point.

Welcome to the madness. They need mocking or they'll begin to believe in themselves.

Mediation ... or Meditation room btw ?

Once, whilst with my former boss, a very chilled Yank, his secretary (who he had nicknamed "Looby-fckg-Lou") popped her head in to say she was off for lunch & going to her Meditation session. It seems we ran them 3 times a week. About 60 .... 58 women in leotards and 2 blokes peering at women in leotards ... attended.

He said if you walked past the room while it was going on it sounded like a machine hall with all the humming going on. He then remarked that loads of them had also taken to Fen Shui and had all been moving their desks around for the past several weeks. One woman had gone off sick due to stress as her office hadn't the space to let her position her furniture in the way she "needed" it.

As VP of HR for a $16bn multi-national his succinct judgement on all this was "there are too many mad bastards in this place".

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Is there a method to putting together a compelling argument for work purposes? I have the ammo i think i need but wonder if there's something management might appreciate more (numbers and that)

Make sure you get in "realise the potential....."

Numbers, yes. Proof points - what's supporting your hypothesis?

Do I have to put money in, to get benefit out? What's the ask on that. How will we measure success? So how do we prove it's delivered what you said it would? If it's financial what's the Internal Rate of Return....yadda, yadda..

Oh and is it a silver bullet....

thanks guys, plus bobo and teh others

seems like it went well.

I've just come back from a 'round-table discussion' where someone started talking about 'heuristics' 'game theory' and at one point explained how his company had created a 'mediation room' on second life! My notes descended into a stream-of-consciousness rant at this point.

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I used to work with this bloke.

[Lord Kangana]

I really couldn't be arsed reading it all, but am I right in understanding that they're going into practice on a computer game, in effect?

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

I really couldn't be arsed reading it all, but am I right in understanding that they're going into practice on a computer game, in effect?

If that's a reply to what I posted, I think the whole thing is long forgotten apart from the occasional sniggering of a indiscreet colleague with a few beers inside him (which is how I heard about it!).

[bobo the clown]

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I used to work with this bloke.

I had to read-up on 'second life'. I wish I hadn't. The will to live was palpably draining from me.

Still, I guess he's happy.

[CrazyHorse]

The bbc is reporting that another plane has gone missing. An Algerian airliner this time.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

The bbc is reporting that another plane has gone missing. An Algerian airliner this time.

Bloody hell, not another

I might have to look into boats to get home in future, though I've still got to get past the Somalian pirates.

[Prufrock]

I've just come back from a 'round-table discussion' where someone started talking about 'heuristics' 'game theory' and at one point explained how his company had created a 'mediation room' on second life! My notes descended into a stream-of-consciousness rant at this point.

Welcome to the madness. They need mocking or they'll begin to believe in themselves.

Mediation ... or Meditation room btw ?

Once, whilst with my former boss, a very chilled Yank, his secretary (who he had nicknamed "Looby-fckg-Lou") popped her head in to say she was off for lunch & going to her Meditation session. It seems we ran them 3 times a week. About 60 .... 58 women in leotards and 2 blokes peering at women in leotards ... attended.

He said if you walked past the room while it was going on it sounded like a machine hall with all the humming going on. He then remarked that loads of them had also taken to Fen Shui and had all been moving their desks around for the past several weeks. One woman had gone off sick due to stress as her office hadn't the space to let her position her furniture in the way she "needed" it.

As VP of HR for a $16bn multi-national his succinct judgement on all this was "there are too many mad bastards in this place".

Mediation. It was a talk about how to save money going to court by sorting things out before-hand through what's known as 'alternative dispute resolution'. This guy had gone well beyond beginning to believe in it! He'd left practice to set up his own ADR company. His talk might have appeared less ridiculous than it already did if the person before hadn't done a really good one on telephone conferencing which has the main advantages of a)not being f*cking stupid and b) being done be telephones, which normal people have, rather than through Second Life which even at the beginning was a bit weird and surely now is only used by the bearded types who live in their parents' basement and wear foil hats.

He also compared his 'tweeted complaint' against some American airliner that didn't have music on one of its radio channels to the Malaysian air disaster, saying that 'in the light of last week's events my complaint now seems trivial'. #Cringe. Re-reading my notes today has been quite amusing though .

And your VP seems to have it right.

[Prufrock]

I really couldn't be arsed reading it all, but am I right in understanding that they're going into practice on a computer game, in effect?

If that's a reply to what I posted, I think the whole thing is long forgotten apart from the occasional sniggering of a indiscreet colleague with a few beers inside him (which is how I heard about it!).

Plenty of right-on types last night. One person, who otherwise was v good, kept talking about 'Generation Y' as an actual thing, and they all kept referring to 'cyberspace' and 'cyber this' and 'cyber that'. She also had a powerpoint presentation set to Jeff Beck with quirky animations. I wanted to laugh so much, but I was there in place of my boss who is away so I was on best behaviour.