Rappers playing chess – I like the concept!
Kudos to the great photographer Martin Schoeller
Misc
I know this is already widely shared on the Internet, but as a Swede I can’t help but post it here. What did happen?
At work (and in probably any office who’s daily workflow revolves around e-mails) we have a breed of employees that I would like to call Hit and Run E-mailers (HaRE). What the HaRE does is to take any task (it could be something simple such as searching their Outlook archive or just using Google instead of asking you) and pass it to someone else and then quickly leave the discussion like nothing happened. The HaREs are some of the most talented work-avoiders and they’re very dangerous for your daily work rythm as they amass work (which they can’t wait to pass on to you) and get e-mail threads tangled up or sometimes disconnected, leaving you helpless and often RESPONSIBLE for things you didn’t even know exist until you get the e-mail from the HaRE.
The HaRE obviously refuses to take any responsibility for anything, all it wants is for other people to get things done. The HaRE usually brings up stuff that needs to be done immediately and they love using terminology such as ASAP, meaning not “as soon as possible” but today or tomorrow. And when you want to get back to them with questions you’re either met by silence, an “I don’t know anything about this”, or even an out-of-office-reply.
How can you successfully battle the HaRE then? Ignoring it sometimes seems like the most logical choice, but that could have problematic consequences as HaREs are often very good when it comes to defense or passing your disobedience or lack of service up to your/his superiors. You would have to prepare your case properly (for example collect all the e-mails and write down your easily-argumented reasons for not helping the HaRE with his e-mail). One way to defeat the HaRE could also be to set up an auto-reply of your own, where you for example state that you only reply to e-mails once daily due to heavy workload and that you can’t promise a quick turnaround on work because of this. Another way could be to try and find a way to intimidate the HaRE into not bothering you anymore, maybe by booking a meeting, sending an e-mail back asking the HaRe for help, or just booking a meeting where you suggest you split up the tasks between yourselves.
The bottom line is that you need to be tough to stand up to a HaRE, but it’s worth every drop of sweat, because if you win, if the HaRE stops bothering you and you stop being its bitch.. you win your freedom.
And freedom is the sweetest thing.
Sometimes when you go to the bathroom in public places you get people (this might only happen to guys) who knock on the door. What’s up with that? Do they expect to get a reply like: “Soon ready!” or “Who’s there?” or “Mom?”
I mean either the door is locked and you can’t get in or the door is open and there’s nobody there. And if there’s somebody there with “unfinished business” and who has forgotten to lock the door, then it’s their problem not yours.
Or maybe it can be partly yours? I guess the knocking thing must come from somebody having walked in on something very uncomfortable; an old lady pulling up her pants, a man taking a giant dump or something in that direction, and want to make sure that never ever happens again.
So the lesson is, if you go to a public restroom, lock the door. Don’t forget.
And please don’t knock.
Ps. If this has happened to you or you find it funny, please share it. Thanks. Ds.
Jesus is my homeboy
Feb 27
Creeck salad
Feb 27
Looking at the ingredients this looks exactly like a Greek salad. But in this economy you might not want to label anything as Greek?
I booked a table at the celebrity prone restaurant Antica Pesa for our trip to Rome and I misunderstood the reservation form (in Italian) and instead of writing number of people wrote our home address. This means we now have a reservation for 33 people at this super-fancy restaurant.
I hope they accept my change from 33 to two people, otherwise you’re all invited.
You don’t get it? Read this article about the Costa Concordia disaster.
You make crude jokes about young, innocent boys. That’s how the world turns, you know.
Thanks to Justin Bieber and Kurt Cobain for being good sports about this. Fame can make or break you.
This image is taken from a recruitment ad for a health company. They pretty much cover all the ethnicity you can think of in a lovely I-bought-this-from-a-stock-image-bank fashion.
But hey! Wait a minute! Where the hell is the Cherokee Indian? And the Eskimo? And is that guy Latino or Indian? (And what kind of teeth-whitening-product do they use?) We need to show we cater for all races here!
I can feel a lawsuit being penned somewhere in the world right this minute…