Through the Johari window
I'd been wondering idly about the startling cost of Voda's international roaming and the cheapness of O2 ditto when the mobile went off (if you've heard my phone ring of late, it's an appropriate simile). It was a fellow from O2 who wanted to know if I'd like to 'upgrade my contract' or similar consumer-jabber. Since I've not bought 'service' from
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My experience of things that management like is that in most cases at the back lurks a good thing.
When the good thing gets popular with management, either
1) it gets over-generalised & so used in ways & places it was never intended for,
2) the words are used but the underlying concept is ignored or so distorted that the final producy bears no relationship to the underlying idea.
3) I think there was a 3rd case, but it's slipped my mind.
Anyway, point being, good tools shame the users are tools.
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My rebuttal is that if you are going to play that game then it's best to play it well.
I have chosen to play that game for the time being & I can see the benefits of managing my work persona.
The damage is limited in that I don't have to take that character out of the office, I don't need to hide most of the important stuff about me, more the ephemera, and when Sio & I hit 65 we should have sufficient capital to sell everything, retire to a beach hut in Belize & spend our declining years pickling ourselves with rum & tequila[1].
[1] Which I don't see as a viable solution if I don't play this game.
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I choose not to.
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