The problem with that, though, is that people think they can make one tiny, convenient change and they’re doing their part - like the person who pats themselves on the back for putting the 25 plastic water bottles they’re guzzling through each week into the recycling bin at work. Yeah, better than nothing, but it’s going to take more than that to join the “revolution.”
You should really learn the difference between childish and treating someone like a child. Why would you say that using a pen until it runs out is childish?
I was complaining about the idiots treating people like children.
I think it is a good idea to learn techniques to remember names and use people’s names often. I am not a git who goes around preaching that if you do that, you will have a revolution. Do you see the difference?
I think every business should run a course in how to communicate with other employees. But I am not a tosser who goes around bleating ‘talk to your co-workers and do not email them’ expecting that will cause a revolution.
Do you understand now? Or are you such a twit that you need more examples?
Most office computers are left on overnight for a reason, surely? If I shut down my PC at the end of my day, I risk facing the wrath of the network administrators, who couldn’t update the software on my machine overnight.
Same with e-mails. There’s nothing worse than losing a train of thought because somebody comes calling at your office, rather than e-mailing.
I’m lazy. I just push mine off the desk, out the window and down to the street 22 floors below. Then I start the next day with a fresh computer. That way I save electricity and I make sure I always have the latest software version.
Tsk, tsk. Wasting all that potential energy. You think the energy in falling objects grows on trees, Mister?
I’ve been using the same ballpoint pen for 3 or 4 years. Our office is completely paperless but I still use the pen almost every day, usually to jot down a note to myself. If you want to keep your pen, I suggest chewing on it and sticking it in your ear from time to time.
I knew you Aussies had bigger knives than we Americans are used too, but I had no idea the same applied to your staples. If Australians would switch to greener American staples, you would only expend, as a country, about 1 ton of steel for each staple used per person per year, generously assuming 1/4 of your total population works in an office.
Seriously, anybody that uses pretend, made up stats to sell a bill of goods ought to be punched in their fat hippy face.
They’re not selling anything.
’We Are What We Do’ is a Not-For-Profit movement that seeks to change peoples’ attitudes towards consumption and non-sustainable behaviours. And (IMNSHO) it is grassroots changes that are the most effective and long-lasting in the big scheme of things.
Whether 1 tonne or 200 tonnes of steel saved is irrelevent. Whether it’s just three people remembering to shut down their computer in the office initially, or just one car getting pooled for the journey to work, it’s a start. And from there, through word of mouth and imitation, more people will get on the bandwagon…maybe not ‘saving the world’ in themselves but certainly changing attitudes that might lead to pressure being put on governments and business leaders that might eventuate in more profound change.
And is that such a bad thing?
If one has to make up ludicrous statistics to support their cause, I am left with no choice but to believe they are either liars or fools. As I can’t be bothered with liars or fools, I have no interest in their cause.
And they are trying to sell something. They are trying to persuade people to alter their behavior, and they are going about it disingenuously.
YES! The I have an army of asshats clomping into my office all day when I’m trying to work, instead of just sending a goddam e-mail for non-urgent matters!
Where do you get them green staples? They sound quite festive.
I recall a Tom the Dancing Bug strip – within a “Super Fun-Pak Comix” number, a strip called “Leninbert”:
Panel 1:
POINTY-HAIRED BOSS: File these papers, Leninbert.
LENINBERT [looks just like Dilbert with Lenin’s beard]: That does it!
Panel 2:
LENINBERT [shooting boss]: Revolution!
P-H B: Aarrgh!
PANEL 3:
LENINBERT [looking out of balcony over revolutionary mass rally]: Now this is relevant workplace satire!
FLUNKY: Stalinbert wants to see you. [Stalinbert, standing to one side, looks just like Dogbert with Stalin’s mustache]