Roger's Rants because you KNOW that sending emails when you are halfway into the bottle is a BAD idea

  • Skip to content
  • Jump to main navigation and login

Nav view search

Navigation

Search

Set the sails, I feel the wind a-stirring,
For the bright horizon set the way,
Cast your wreckless dreams upon our Mayflower,
A haven from the world and her decay.

"Charlie Darwin" by The Low Anthem on the album "Oh My God Charlie Darwin"

Roger's Randomness

Work is for Losers

Details
Category: Rants
  • Wendy

So last week the Vice Chancellery was distributing its awards for well done-ness to staff. Last year I was nominated for one much to my embarrassment as it was for something that many other people had contributed to, but fortunately the awards ceremony (a blooming black tie dinner - not my scene) was on my 60th birthday so I had excuse not to go, and fortunately again I didn't win it anyway.

This year seeing it from the other side there is a clear message coming from the VC through all of the posters advertising "Are You a Winner?" - and that is that if you are not a winner then you are a Loser and therefore a burden to the enterprise and you should just feck off.

 

Who Got All The Pies?

Details
Category: Rants
  • university
  • inequality

So who got a pay rise of 11% in 2010-11 while her staff got a 0.4% rise (or a 3% cut in real terms)?

Whose peers doing the same job got a 0.8% increase while she enjoyed her 11% inflation busting top-up to her gross salary?

Who gets paid 32% more than the average salary of her peers?

Answers in today's THES

Who actually does the work which increases our university's efficiency and rankings?

WE ALL DO

Who gets all the pies?

SHE DOES

What is a Complaint?

Details
Category: Rants

If some organisation like a big financial company (Aviva to give a specific for this case) writes to me as a customer with some information about our mutual business and I then write back asking for clarification of a couple of points and also if they could send the leaflet which they had stated was enclosed but which had in fact been left out, then I am probably making an enquiry, not a complaint.

Read more ...

What is a Claim?

Details
Category: Rants
  • coop
  • con-trick

Claim (noun)

  1. a statement that something is true:   "There were claims that he had lied."
  2. an official demand for something you think you have a right to: "a claim for compensation"

So in my simple way I thought that a "no claims bonus" was a bonus that I got for not having made a claim (sense 2)

Read more ...

  1. What could be the point of the Green Party
  2. Wealth
  3. Un-cooperativisation
  4. UKIP Greens Media Policies - so what?

Page 1 of 14

  • Start
  • Prev
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • Next
  • End

My Shite Here

  • Home
  • Wrants
  • Kulture
  • Fwact Is
  • Dowings
  • Finks
  • Werm Too
  • Faecesbook

Word Cloud

university politics complaint CO2 con-trick stone Goethe Action philosophy protest time deep green patterns elements natural philosophy revolution Wendy collapse inequality media eco-socialism building letter bliss leadership Green Party TTW radio coop feeling

My Other Shite

  • CrOsborne
  • Techie Talk
  • Roger's Roots
  • Green Talk
  • Lanson Termynyow
  • An Lef Gwer
  • Gwel Dulas

Other People's Shite

  • Gaian Economics - Molly Scott Cato
  • John Greer - The Archdruid
  • Orlov - Seasteading with Dimitri

What The F...

This is NOT a "Blog" because I dislike both the word and the usually self serving shite that such things contain. Not that this website isn't full of self serving shite, but it is not intended for you to read and you won't find any RSS or Twatter feeds or FaecesBook links (although if we've actually met in person and have reason to keep in touch you might find me there) and you also won't find it organised like a diary with chronological ordering dominating genuflecting at the altar of the Tyrant Thyme. Instead it is just a random collection of loosely linked and categorised ideas and things I find interesting and thoughts that occurred to me.

Wreckomended Wreading - Made Up Stuff

Retrieved from the Future - John Seymour
The Man Who Planted Trees - Jean Giono
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Snowdrops - A D Miller
The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco
That They May Face The Rising Sun - John McGahern
Seagull Drovers - Steve Cockayne
Masai Dreaming - John Cartwright
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

Listen 'ere - Stick These in Yer Lug'oles

Great Green Grooves for Gaia
"Charlie Darwin" from the album "Oh My God Charlie Darwin" by Low Anthem.
"Transition" from the album "Dance the Night Away" by Wurlitza (the best PeakOil song yet)
"Garbage" by Pete Seeger - find it on YouTube with post economy added verse
"Protection Racket" from the album "The Shadow Of An Empire" by Fionn Regan
"Here Comes the Flood" from the album "Meet You There " by the Oysterband

Wreckomended Wreading - Real Stuff

Where the Wasteland Ends - Theodore Roszak
Direct Use of Sun - Sloan, Daniels and Baitsell
Fleeing Vesuvius  - ed Richard Douthwaite
Chavs - Owen Jones
Creating a Forest Garden - Martin Crawford
Heat - George Monbiot
Limits to Growth: 30yr update - Meadows, Randers & Meadows
Ill Fares the Land - Tony Judt

Powered by Joomla!®