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And I’m highly dismissive of yours. | And I’m highly dismissive of yours. | ||
: — [[Dangerboy]], ''The Girl at the Bus Stop''.}} | : — [[Dangerboy]], ''The Girl at the Bus Stop''.}} | ||
If only people would ''belt up'' about their goddamn personal problems every now and then, so this were occasionally ''true''. | So we have the old LinkedIn saw: | ||
{{maxim|Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about}}. | |||
If only people would ''belt up'' about their goddamn personal problems, every now and then, so this were occasionally ''true''. | |||
The JC is working up a theory, propelled by exasperation at the prevalence of complaint as a latter-day professional occupation, that the moral crisis that engulfed the 20th century has claimed the [[opportunity cost]]. So we can have [https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2016/05/25/its-ok-to-say-whats-ok/ this kind of dreck] from (where else?) the public service, helpfully telling inductees about the absolute lack of any standards of behaviour; a mixture of what ought to be the bleeding obvious — things that should and, frankly, ''do'' go in any sentient organisation with aspirations of continuing in business — items that will appeal to work-shy teenagers used to having their parents tidy up after them, and items that ought to be utterly out of the question in any organisation fulfilling a service of any commercial or civil importance to anyone in the community. | The JC is working up a theory, propelled by exasperation at the prevalence of complaint as a latter-day professional occupation, that the moral crisis that engulfed the 20th century has claimed the [[opportunity cost]]. So we can have [https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2016/05/25/its-ok-to-say-whats-ok/ this kind of dreck] from (where else?) the public service, helpfully telling inductees about the absolute lack of any standards of behaviour; a mixture of what ought to be the bleeding obvious — things that should and, frankly, ''do'' go in any sentient organisation with aspirations of continuing in business — items that will appeal to work-shy teenagers used to having their parents tidy up after them, and items that ought to be utterly out of the question in any organisation fulfilling a service of any commercial or civil importance to anyone in the community. | ||