My dear colleague, why are you arguing with me about copyright law? Your insistence on doing it your way has no bearing on the reality of the rules. It is what it is.
How can someone supposedly so intelligent be so dumb?
Have I been heard at work? Don’t get your hopes up. Everyone made the right noises, but I have been here before. All the proposed solutions have been mentioned repeatedly, only to go nowhere at all. I won’t consider it progress made until I see action in place of words. Until then, it’s all just talk.
The snow came down thick and fast on the school run this morning, but it was the blizzard of racism on the car radio that really caught my attention. Are we back there again?
One day, while tidying up the office, I came across my manager’s notes from my job interview. At the top, she’d scribbled, “Overqualified?” It turned out that I was. On my first day in post, my manager sat with me and went through my job description, stripping out everything that had attracted me to the …
Modern tech companies use their customers as beta testers for their flaky services — and yet manage to convince us to pay for the privilege.
Generative AI has exploded onto the creative scene, offering tantalising possibilities for image creation. It promises instant art at the push of a button. But as anyone who has spent time with these tools will know, the reality can feel more like feeding a slot machine than commissioning a masterpiece. You sit there, crafting your …
There’s a reason tech companies market their AI products as assistants, copilots, companions, and underlords. No, not ethics. It’s because they’re still not very good. Don’t get me wrong. For many mundane tasks, they can be amazing. But it’s when you push then that they fall apart. That’s when the hype runs hollow, as if …
Our young men are bitter that our young women are too successful. How dare they be so well educated, with such vast ambitions! They should know their place. Actually, it’s the other way around. The boys thinking themselves men should take a leaf out of these young women’s book. Have some ambition of your own. …
Mosque full of kids and teenagers whose first and primary language is English? The perfect opportunity for an inspiring sermon about the relevance of their deen! Well, you’d think so. But no, the celebrated English-speaking imam’s off on umrah, so bad luck kids. You get treated to the irrelevant, incomprehensible khutbah in Punjurdlish. And we …
Most religious movements start life subverting repressive power structures but end up embodying them. Sad but true.
Maybe I should take three days off every week. I’ve just had the most productive two days’ work in ages. Back to my usual self.
I hate suppliers who use their monopoly status to take advantage of their customers. But, sorry, we’re not playing. Contract terminated.
Ah, the amusing life cycle of emails. Look, there’s the one you wrote. Only, by the time you end up copied into another email thread, ten days on, it has mysteriously been authored by someone else entirely. Shh, nobody will ever know!
