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Steven Snedkers billede
Af Steven Snedker den 13. marts 2020 - 7:25 [0]
Steven Snedkers billede
Af Steven Snedker den 23. februar 2020 - 8:00 [0]

Vrøvlesprog på arbejdspladsen

"No matter where I’ve worked, it has always been obvious that if everyone agreed to use language in the way that it is normally used, which is to communicate, the workday would be two hours shorter."

What did Megan do? Mostly she set meetings, or “syncs,” as she called them. They were the worst kind of meeting — the kind where attendees circle the concept of work without wading into the substance of it. Megan’s syncs were filled with discussions of cadences and connectivity and upleveling as well as the necessity to refine and iterate moving forward. The primary unit of meaning was the abstract metaphor. I don’t think anyone knew what anyone was saying, but I also think we were all convinced that we were the only ones who didn’t know while everyone else was on the same page. (A common reference, this elusive page.)

Vrøvlesprog på arbejdspladsen

En slags propaganda ?

The Soviet invasion of eastern Poland, meanwhile, was never formally described as an invasion at all. Instead, in the words of Corps Commissar S. Kozhevnikov, writing in the Soviet military newspaper Red Star, “the Red Army stretched out the hand of fraternal assistance to the workers of Western Ukraine and Western Byelorussia freeing them forever from social and national bondage.”

Steven Snedkers billede
Af Steven Snedker den 19. februar 2020 - 18:16 [0]

Hvor meget vil du helst fratages?

100 mio. kr. direkte eller 10 mia inddireke? Den rationelle har vist kun ét svar.

Britta har blot drukket direkte af en hane, der var forbeholdt nogle andre. Og hun havde nøglen til pumpen. Men selve naturen af hendes forbrydelse er vel ikke fundamentalt set anderledes end en ophavsretsadvokats trylleri med kunstneres rettighedspenge. Eller de store koncerner med de dygtige rådgivere og revisorer, der ved hjælp af regnskabsmæssige illusionsnumre kan få kæmpemæssige overskud til at forsvinde ud i den blå luft. Eller konkursryttere, hvis pekuniære og juridiske badutspring kaster grimme skygger over såvel offentlige kasser som civile kreditorer.
De er bare så Helvedes uhåndgribelige, fordi de er en del af et strukturelt sammensurium, der gør det uendeligt meget lettere at fokusere på enkelte syndere end systematisk urimelighed.
Britta er offerlammet i disse dage. Hende kan vi blive enige om at bure inde i al hendes duknakkede og tavse skyldighed.

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