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ISTJ "Trustee" These are dependable pillars of strength. They often try to reform their mates and other people. They make good bank examiners, auditors, accountants, and phys. ed. teachers, and boy or girl scouts! 6% of the total population.
While we're on the subject (approximately), let me just rant about how offensive I consider the term 'Human Resources'. I am not a human resource. I am a human being.
Would you rather they called it the "Everybody's special" department?
FFS, we're human. We can hunt, we can nurture. We can kill, we can heal. We can be cruel, we can rescue. We can invent, create, build and destroy. We can all cook, clean, think, communicate, reproduce, travel, imagine, sit, stand, paint, sing, laugh, cry.
I'm crap at painting - not just pictures, but easy stuff like doors and such
While we're on the subject (approximately), let me just rant about how offensive I consider the term 'Human Resources'.
Indeed
Just yesterday I read about HMG's bizarre "You Be The Judge" site (N.B.: Flash required to witness the fail in all its refulgent splendour). This nonsense cost the Ministry of Justice (a thing I thought one only found in third world dictatorships) £56,403.60 ex VAT. The MeejaLaw site, who revealed this information after an FoI request, also quoted the MoJ's proud boast of how they had kept the costs down:
Design, coding and technical build of the interactive guide was carried out by “internal web resources who were simultaneously working on other activities”.
(my emphasis)
Not "our web developers" nor "our own staff" nor "our employees" but "internal web resources". I bet they feel really appreciated by their employer when they're made to juggle multiple projects and then see themselves described in such terms
I'm crap at painting - not just pictures, but easy stuff like doors and such
Indeed
Just yesterday I read about HMG's bizarre "You Be The Judge" site (N.B.: Flash required to witness the fail in all its refulgent splendour). This nonsense cost the Ministry of Justice (a thing I thought one only found in third world dictatorships) £56,403.60 ex VAT. The MeejaLaw site, who revealed this information after an FoI request, also quoted the MoJ's proud boast of how they had kept the costs down:
You be the Judge. Hardly representitive was it. They were all middle classed white people on the videos.
Just yesterday I read about HMG's bizarre "You Be The Judge" site (N.B.: Flash required to witness the fail in all its refulgent splendour). This nonsense cost the Ministry of Justice (a thing I thought one only found in third world dictatorships) £56,403.60 ex VAT. The MeejaLaw site, who revealed this information after an FoI request, also quoted the MoJ's proud boast of how they had kept the costs down:
Design, coding and technical build of the interactive guide was carried out by “internal web resources who were simultaneously working on other activities”.
(my emphasis)
Not "our web developers" nor "our own staff" nor "our employees" but "internal web resources". I bet they feel really appreciated by their employer when they're made to juggle multiple projects and then see themselves described in such terms
That is one godawful web site. WTF are you supposed to do with it?
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Just yesterday I read about HMG's bizarre "You Be The Judge" site (N.B.: Flash required to witness the fail in all its refulgent splendour). This nonsense cost the Ministry of Justice (a thing I thought one only found in third world dictatorships) £56,403.60 ex VAT.
This sort of thing is the reason the potholes on our roads aren't getting filled in!!!
"A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come." -- Lester Freamon
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