Business Or Measure?
I tend to be fairly measured in my stuff. I think things through a lot and weigh up consequences of the things I do. Or don’t do, mostly.
I even waste a good deal of time thinking of things that my never happen and how I would deal with them just in case they ever did. Lately as I faced redundancy from my current employer, I became a bit of a nightmare to my nearest, if not dearest, as I wondered what I was going to do next and how things would pan out.
Pan schman, as regular readers will know that things worked out OK, and I’m off at the end of this month and to join a new job at the BBC.
I have been informed of their blogging policy and it looks like I’m going to have to tell my manager about this site if I indentify myself as an employee of BBC News. Seeing as I’ve done that already, I will probably blurt it out on my first day. I’ll be on my fourth coffee of the day, and confess loudly “I’VE GOT A BLOG!!!” to an unsuspecting group of colleagues, five per cent of whom will think privately, “He’s done what?!”
They may already know. Or maybe not. I mean, who googles their employees or colleagues before you they actually start? That’s just crazy. (OK, I may have done this, but it was for a bet. Once. And I was drunk. And like, really stoned and shit?) Of course, I have thought of this already, which is why I took my name off the description and The Data Of Meta which accompanies this site.
See? Always thinking. While this is a decent attribute, it doesn’t really mark me out as what the young ladies might call, I believe, “a catch”.
I don’t rush out and buy flowers on a whim. I will use price comparison websites and read customer reviews. I make Norway look impulsive.
I’m not looking to be a catch anyway. Fuck catches. Catch THIS. No, I’m fine right here with my little patch of blog. Maybe a tune here or there, a little bagel recipe maybe.
Oh, that reminds me, Wendy followed the recipe I posted in “How To Cook Perfect Bagels The This Is This Way With Cliff Jones” and lived to describe the whole experience in her excellent collaborative food (not) blog, A Lard Off My Mind. As promised, anyone who cooks bagels and posts about them gets a mench, so get a load of Wendy’s bagels. OK, double entendres aside, it’s a great blog. Please read it and get a lard on.
See what I’m doing, I am bribing people with food in order to get traffic back to this site? Literally, “Will blog for food”.
The thoughts expressed here are my own and not those of the BBC. Many of them weren’t even my own, originally. Or thoughts, as such.
UPDATE: Happy Mardi Gras - it’s hard to believe that three schoolgirls and some drums can sound this good.
February 5th, 2008 at 8:49 am
I still haven’t told anyone I work with about my blog because there’s swearing on it. Granted, mostly from you - but even so.
Also, I’d like to thank you for including profanity in the title of your previous post. I just tried to comment on it, but got the big scary THIS IS RESTRICTED error which means I’ll probably get fired for trying to visit inappropriate web sites.
Anyone got any work for someone who would just prefer to blog all day long? For food?
(the Norway thing is very funny)
February 5th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Good point, Wendy. I didn’t realise that swearing in the title makes it a sweary URL, so some people can not read this at work.
Sorry about the getting you fired thing. Jeez, tetchy.
February 5th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Yeah, Wendy, so selfish - Cliff got fired and you don’t hear him going on about it.
I’m a catch. The word is just used by single people who think they shouldn’t be to earn themselves a last shred of self-respect.
Also; I’ve googled new staff before. At the application stage. You don’t usually find anything at all, waste of time probably, but you have to be sure.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:17 am
I know of at least one company (in IT industry) that found an applicant’s blog by googling themselves (and finding the “today I interviewed at company X” post). Which they apparently do every day to keep an eye on The Market. Presumably BBC News would have more stuff to sift through, though.
So, you take your name off the Data of Meta and the top of the page, but leave it in post titles, which you then quote for added emphasis? Interesting strategy…
February 5th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Just funny, nothing more to say. Love the Norway line and of course the “bagels”, “double entendres aside” and “get a lard on” triptych. Class.
From,
Jon “also not much of a catch” ners.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:45 am
“I make Norway look impulsive.”
That made me do a proper lol.
February 5th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Sam - I did so not get fired! I’ve already been facebooked (v.) by future colleagues there, so I think the blogging cat is out of the bag anyway.
Scroobious - I really have no strategy, but I know what you’re saying.
Thanks Jonners and Angry - I’m glad you liked that line.
February 5th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
I bet they only hired you because you’re famous, it works both ways you know.
February 5th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Is Norway considered pulsive? or whatever the antonym of impulsive is.