This PC nonsense seems to me to be an attempt to create thoughtcrimes.

An example would be the woman labeled a bigot because she dared to bring up the subject of immigration to Gordon Brown. Although his comments weren’t intended for public consumption it displays a certain mindset where ‘right-minded’ PC people claim the moral high ground in an attempt to make any opposition seem subversive and immoral.

Ban certain words and as George Orwell said, certain things become unthinkable.

What do you get if you cross a midget with an idiot?

I don’t know, but it’s not big and it’s not clever.

Bank with Dave!

Hard Drives need to be securely wiped before disposal. Not in my experience…

Oh, it just makes me want to sign my cheque at the supermarket till from an account that has no money in it (I have several of them)

When they pursue me for fraud….

And then some of my bosses wanted a new title to reflect thier elevated positions. They became Senior IT Officers.

I changed my email signature to SH IT OFFICER but there was a sense of humour failure in the department…

It’s becoming more and more apparent that the trick is to keep your head down and your mouth shut if you want a career in the public sector.

Exposing waste and inefficiency just isn’t playing the game.

When I worked in the I.T. Dept of our Local Authority, we had a rolling program to replace PC’s every 3 years. Now, this is fair enough for some users and departments, who may have to keep up with software updates etc but we were also rolling out the same high spec machines to departments which had users who only used them for emails etc.

When I pointed out that we could save thousands by refurbishing the used PC’s for such users, I was told that this would make the department heads feel de-valued.

On another tack, I also pointed out that, being paid as computer professionals, it made no sense to have us spending time on basic clerical work when we could employ someone to do it at half our hourly rate. This was especially galling as we had to bring in contractors at £800 per week because we couldn’t keep up with our substantive work.

For my trouble, and for embarrasing my line manager, I was told to do even more clerical work.

I’m happy to say I no longer work there