I think what's happened is that, in the absence of Brexit bringing any concrete benefits whatsoever to anyone who isn't already filthy rich, the Tories have basically run out of ideology other than the culture war, so whatever annoys Them - liberals, progressives, educated people, young people, civil servants, the public sector generally, etc. etc. - is what flies.Yeah, I agree, but this doesn't even seem to be tapping into existing resentment as such, it's basically inventing a whole new thing for people to get annoyed about purely so they can make the civil servants less productive and less happy.
yep. the backlash is part of the communications obviously. you know you're going to get some stories about pissed off civil servants, which is expected and is part of the reason you do it in the first place. coz there are voters who want civil servants / 'the public sector' to be pissed off.Yeah, I agree, but this doesn't even seem to be tapping into existing resentment as such, it's basically inventing a whole new thing for people to get annoyed about purely so they can make the civil servants less productive and less happy.
its pretty fascinating that one of the key areas where a fairly large number of people still came together to do something in person (ie, offices) now looks like it might be a thing of the past. the offices i work in are nothing like what they used to be, just a totally different environment now, pretty much just a more comfortable place to do the work you need to do on a screen, rather than the social (in all senses of the word) and often power-based environments they were before.Waved at the office today driving past in a cab
Still an alien/off-world head state I still haven’t adjusted to
It’s a pretty key component of the Tory mindset, though. That nagging suspicion that somebody, somewhere has bagged a perk – no matter how small or inconsequential, compared to the privileges you possess. You could be sitting in a £900k house, mortgage paid off, and if someone on the dole wins a bottle in a raffle, well…why are the unemployed allowed to enter raffles?Obviously it's not the cuntiest bits of Tory cuntishness or even in the same ballpark, but it feels like one of the more fucking stupid ones.
Meanwhile the same cunts will claim expenses for their mistress's pedicure and a fucking Twix.It’s a pretty key component of the Tory mindset, though. That nagging suspicion that somebody, somewhere has bagged a perk – no matter how small or inconsequential, compared to the privileges you possess. You could be sitting in a £900k house, mortgage paid off, and if someone on the dole wins a bottle in a raffle, well…why are the unemployed allowed to enter raffles?
Maybe she enjoyed the frisson of being caught Facebooking at work?The odd thing is, there's a woman at our place who's been vociferous about us all returning (she's not even in management!) since late 2020... and even now, she keeps banging on about how it'll benefit everyone to return, and how it's impossible to get a day's work done at home because of 'distractions'.
But whenever I went past her desk, pre-Covid, she was always on Facebook or shopping online, and she'd have a panic attack when anyone asked her to do anything. Don't care what she does, natch...but then why insist on everyone going back into the office? People are fucking weird.
or, I live in the office, an adventure playground complete with Lego land mines, while maintaining saying nothing to keep The Peace
My parents ask me if I’m back in the office yet each time I speak to them. I suspect in my Dad’s case it’s so he can then ask me if the trains are alright. I keep telling them it’s not going to happen again but I think they just can’t get their heads around it after a lifetime of “going to work”.It goes without saying I guess, but the cunty stupidity is the point obviously. Like everything that berk does its about appealing to a senile strata of the electorate