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{{a|g| | {{a|g|{{image|EPOTY|png|You know you want it.}}{{image|LDOTY|jpg|Excellence in [[complaints management]]}} }}Awards of any kind are a dignity-shredding affair, even when your auditors can count envelopes, but just what is going through the mind of an investment banker, [[head-hunter|recruitment consultant]], [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyer]] or [[compliance]] professional who allows {{sex|himself}} to hold, be nominated for, win, ''modestly'' disclose on [[LinkedIn]], or congratulate anyone else who should so modestly disclose, an “[[industry award]]” is hard to fathom. | ||
Awards of any kind are a dignity-shredding affair, even when your auditors can count envelopes, but just what is going through the mind of an investment banker, [[head-hunter|recruitment consultant]], [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyer]] or [[compliance]] professional who allows {{sex|himself}} to hold, be nominated for, win, ''modestly'' disclose on [[LinkedIn]], or congratulate anyone else who should so modestly disclose, an “[[industry award]]” is hard to fathom. | |||
These “awards” have long been doled out at gala events convened by tedious [[industry magazine]]s to reward their most persistent advertisers—credulous businesses who can’t get much else out of the spend (well: does anyone really ''read'' [[industry magazine|Carbon Trading Magazine]]?<ref>The answer to this rhetorical question, originally posed in 2010, turned out to be “no” — or at any rate, not enough of a readership to justify continuing to publish beyond September 2012. May the memory of those boozy nights on Carbon Trading Magazine’s red carpet rest in peace.</ref> What for? The horoscopes?) | These “awards” have long been doled out at gala events convened by tedious [[industry magazine]]s to reward their most persistent advertisers—credulous businesses who can’t get much else out of the spend (well: does anyone really ''read'' [[industry magazine|Carbon Trading Magazine]]?<ref>The answer to this rhetorical question, originally posed in 2010, turned out to be “no” — or at any rate, not enough of a readership to justify continuing to publish beyond September 2012. May the memory of those boozy nights on Carbon Trading Magazine’s red carpet rest in peace.</ref> What for? The horoscopes?) | ||
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How cynical. | How cynical. | ||
Seemingly there are insecurities that only a gong for “[[Environmental Finance Personality of the Year]]” (you | Seemingly there are insecurities that only a gong for “[[Environmental Finance Personality of the Year]]” (you couldn’t make such a thing up: it really exists); “Business Development Professional of the Year” (there are ''hundreds'' of these) or “In-house Litigation Department of the year” (what does it say about an organisation that lionises its own capacity to [[Make America Great Again|conduct litigation]]?) can redress. | ||
O! To have existential doubts that can be so simply quashed! | O! To have existential doubts that can be so simply quashed! | ||
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If such an award, “judged” anonymously, without reference to published criteria, from amongst nominees whose main merit appears to be employment by a prolific advertiser of the sponsor’s product — if a personal tribute as feeble as ''that'' can assuage your deep insecurities; if that is all it takes to put you back on a level keel — your psychological health is rude indeed. | If such an award, “judged” anonymously, without reference to published criteria, from amongst nominees whose main merit appears to be employment by a prolific advertiser of the sponsor’s product — if a personal tribute as feeble as ''that'' can assuage your deep insecurities; if that is all it takes to put you back on a level keel — your psychological health is rude indeed. | ||
Right? | Right? | ||
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*[[LinkedIn]] | *[[LinkedIn]] | ||
*[[Boredom heat death]] | *[[Boredom heat death]] | ||