overlap

Given the number of bloggers getting into strife for commenting on work-related issues, you'll understand that this is necessarily vague. Recently I've been forced into doing some sessions which are not remotely related to the specific practicalities of the work I do. Part can broadly be summed up by saying 'it's only work, get a life!' and part can probably be summed up in the statement 'work and office politics is mostly bullshit, so learn to bullshit better if you want to be a high flyer'. It's several wasted hours of my life I won't get back, and a presenter with an unconvincing collection of yankeeze psychobabbly slogans which have been copied and pasted wholesale, a pile of barely relevant personal anecdotes and a poor grasp of the English language does nothing but make the whole thing seem truly preposterous. On the one hand I have a faint scintilla of respect for the honesty of an organisation clarifying just how much BS office politics is. But on the other hand there's something I just don't get about saying 'here's a load of hokey old pantomime cobblers that everyone knows is utter cobblers, and it's better for you to join in by doing x, y and z'. Oh no it isn't.