Heard issuing from the lips of our resident Arthur Dent: "Where's the tea?" I have to admit, it never occurred to me that he's an Arthur Dent until this morning - but that one overheard comment has just pegged him neatly.
So, why is he Arthur Dent whilst my Jedi Master got the tag he got? I don't know. All I can really say is that he's lucky he hasn't made an appearance in my blog before this - I was going to call him the Chemical Goblin.
Friday, 27 July 2007
Tuesday, 3 July 2007
What's the difference between an argument and a spirited discussion?
Darth Chaos and I have been at it again - this time over the subject of training. To be more specific, familiarising people with our new documentation system. For the record, she thinks that we still haven't got it right, and I'm generally trying to avoid getting her and that particular topic together, since it only leads to frustration on my behalf. Mainly of the 'why didn't you tell me this before, when I was actually designing it? Oh, yes. That's right. You're a self-confessed bad communicator. (aka, I tried, but it's not entirely your fault that you didn't understand)' variety.
Anyway.
Everybody has been getting terribly confused about the new system, at least some of which is mired in office politics. But I won't go into details here.
What I have learned this morning is that Darth Chaos and I have rather different ideas on how people should be trained. She apparently favours the bribery-with-small-prizes approach, which I personally loathe and detest as being an unbelievably patronising way of teaching adults. I suspect she sees it as a way to make the training session more entertaining.
We were just getting into the swing of it (aka, I was running out of countering arguments and getting closer to the truth of the matter, which is simply that I would dearly love her to butt out and let me do it my way) when the conversation was interrupted by Darth Chaos getting a phone call. Once she managed to talk her way through to the end of that, she decided that we should drop the subject until we get closer to the time when we can actually conduct the training session.
I was rather relieved by this, since hopefully next time I can go dancing in there armed with training techniques (gained off the internet, of course) which might silence her complaints and persuade her to let me do it my way. Hopefully.
Anyway.
Everybody has been getting terribly confused about the new system, at least some of which is mired in office politics. But I won't go into details here.
What I have learned this morning is that Darth Chaos and I have rather different ideas on how people should be trained. She apparently favours the bribery-with-small-prizes approach, which I personally loathe and detest as being an unbelievably patronising way of teaching adults. I suspect she sees it as a way to make the training session more entertaining.
We were just getting into the swing of it (aka, I was running out of countering arguments and getting closer to the truth of the matter, which is simply that I would dearly love her to butt out and let me do it my way) when the conversation was interrupted by Darth Chaos getting a phone call. Once she managed to talk her way through to the end of that, she decided that we should drop the subject until we get closer to the time when we can actually conduct the training session.
I was rather relieved by this, since hopefully next time I can go dancing in there armed with training techniques (gained off the internet, of course) which might silence her complaints and persuade her to let me do it my way. Hopefully.
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