6 - May 24, 2010 11:39 am

Name:

Georgina Hone

Location:

Comments:

What is it with everyone having conversations AROUND everything, we aim to clarify issues AROUND management; we are discussing matters AROUND data entry; we need to look at what needs to be done AROUND sick leave; there was a discussion AROUND research; I will talk on issues AROUND the environment I just cannot take anyone seriously who is circling AROUND everything and never landing, they are like flies!

Reply: I suspect they don't want to land Georgina because then they would have to actually do something.
Cheers,
Weasel Admin

7 - May 12, 2010 9:03 am

Name:

Diana Reverberi

Location:

Comments:

I can't believe it - I am not an alien! There are other people in this world who are bothered by management speak! You have saved my life (and I'm only half kidding).

Seriously, I do feel like an alien. It started in the early 90's when I seemed to be the only one in the company who resented being called a 'resource'. It was the beginning of TQM and many other acronyms. I wrote an anonymous satirical newsletter and all the other resources liked it but they thought that it must have been written by Mike. Not fair. I could whinge at least as much as Mike.

I have so many stories. But, moving forward, not yet proactive I will read through the forum to ensure a core alignment before I share any potentially negative writing events.

8 - May 10, 2010 7:35 pm

Name:

val yule

Location:

Melbourne

Comments:

The language of English

The language of English teachers may not be the same as the Eng1ish language. The following vocabulary is taken from a single article in a publication of the association of English teachers in Australia. Words not known to my spellchecker are in capitals.
adjectives
COMPLICITOUS phrases
foreground issue critical study
hegemonic critical readings
GENDERED encounters culturally imperialist representation
GENDERED nature discursive practices
INTERTEXTUAL gender is negotiated
naturalised notions hegemonic masculinity
ideologies of the text
verbs multiplicity of REREADINGS
Being privileged reading is a political act
MASCULINITIES reflexively aware
PROBLEMATISED regimes of truth
relational approach
nouns' resistant readings
ESSENTIALISM rewrite meanings
reading is never a purely innocent
HOMOSOCIABILITY activity
intersection of gender socially critical
silences in the text social production
MASCULINITIES terrain of Intervention
motivations (= motives?)
separatism and popular buzzwords
impinging
powerful
problematic
The clincher - Boys should be able to position themselves in multiple subjectivities which they can recognise and claim as their own despite regimes of truth that dictate otherwise.

If I had taken words from an article on deconstructionism, there would have been an even merrier collection of, let us say, languages

Further Process-Protest. Processing has escaped from the factory, and is now everywhere. Peace is no longer what it might have become - it too is processed. The other day our great Victorian broadsheet advised women about 'the breastfeeding process' and 'the suckling process', as more respectable, one may suppose, than breastfeeding or suckling. The infant is 'attached’ to the breast, like a safety pin -rather than as in the old form 'put to the breast’.
val yule

9 - April 28, 2010 3:53 pm

Name:

Wilton Braund

Location:

Comments:

Marvellous web site, thank you.

I have just been communicating with a member of the Drug and Alcohol Services in the South Australian Department of Health.
Her title, God bless her, is "Manager, Stakeholder Engagement".

10 - April 26, 2010 4:14 pm

Name:

Timothy J Anderson

Location:

Melbourne Western Burbs

Comments:

In order to get a clearance for security work I was required to attend a psychologist who wrote. "In my opinion, Mr A does not suffer from any major diagnosable psychological disorder. I do not think Mr A has a violent bone in his body and there is nothing in his personal history suggesting otherwise. I do not believe he poses any kind of significant threat to work colleagues or the general public. Mr A is not in need of any ongoing psychological treatment"

The solicitors reply was:

"Can we ask you to clarify your meaning of the word "major"? Should we read into this that Mr A does in fact suffer from a diagnosable psychological disorder but that you do not think this disorder is a "major" one.

In a similar vein we note that you have concluded that Mr A does not pose any "significant" threat to his colleagues or the public. Should we infer that he does pose some degree of threat, but that in your view that threat is not significant. If so can you please elaborate on this conclusion. Please let us know if this information leads you to change your opinion about Mr A."