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These “awards” have long been doled out at gala events convened by tedious industry magazines 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]]? What for?) | These “awards” have long been doled out at gala events convened by tedious industry magazines 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]]? What for?) | ||
It is true that in those cases, sheepishly returning to your desk with a stonking hangover and an embarrassing plastic figurine is the price of a free night out on the razzle with your buddies. But latterly these [[Risk Magazine|austere publications]] have been joined by obscure “networking platforms” and hitherto unheard-of “trade associations” in declaring arbitrary, meaningless and frankly outrageous awards to individuals whom you would think the simple pleasure of excelling at their calling, or failing that, being richly paid for it, ought to be reward enough. | |||
But what is this you say? There might be deeper neuroses at work, nibbling away at our frail securities, dripping whispered poisons in our ear — that what we do all day has no utility in the grander scheme of life? That we are wasting ourselves; decaying; wearing away—[[Bullshit Jobs: A Theory - Book Review|frittering our fragile psyches on a cosmic hamster wheel]]? | |||
How cynical. | |||
[[File:LDOTY.jpg|thumb|left|Excellence in complaints management]]Seemingly there are insecurities that only a gong for “[[Environmental Finance Personality of the Year]]” (there really is such a thing); “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. | [[File:LDOTY.jpg|thumb|left|Excellence in complaints management]]Seemingly there are insecurities that only a gong for “[[Environmental Finance Personality of the Year]]” (there really is such a thing); “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. | ||