Comments on: Dinosaur Media Writer Discovers Craigslist, Internet Allow Free Speech

By: Bethany

Bethany — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:01:16 +0000

Jack, we can still do kink, but with deliciously euphemistic euphemisms.

By: HR Director

HR Director — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:58:59 +0000

I tried to lighten things up a bit by introducing Monty Python, but no one took the cue.

By: Jack Jett

Jack Jett — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:07:23 +0000

I wish we could center this debate around kink and be really graphic about it.
The comments started about Bosnian meat cutters (which showed some potential) and ended with HR Director coming out as a major metropolitan newspaper.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:34:29 +0000

I’ve been on my own before, but have recently taken an internal position.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:23:00 +0000

Can we send the horse to the glue factory now?

By: Rawlins

Rawlins — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:13:30 +0000

Question: Jason, are you an independent IT consultant or internal with a company? If you are the former, clearly you are the perfect person for many who want and need to retain an IT point person and others who wish to become up to speed educated.

By: HR Director

HR Director — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:11:33 +0000

Please! Please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion! Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who. We are here today to witness the union of two young people in the joyful bond of the holy wedlock.

Sorry, I always fall into Monty Python mode when the situation gets tense.

Actually, Jason, I’m not in HR at all. I’m a writer for a major metropolitan newspaper. I’ve started the “From the Human Resources Department” blog as a sort of snarky take on all the ridiculous things I see from our own and others’ HR departments.

You make some excellent points.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:05:48 +0000

As a side note, I completely respect and love my parents, grandparents, and other elders. I’m a nostalgia buff by nature, and regularly work with and love the people around me who are much older. My concerns have nothing to do with a “natural contempt” for the old. If anything, it’s quite the opposite. I’m in my mid-thirties (which means I straddle the Gen-X and Boomer generation) and I have a fear of becoming marginalized myself after watching it occur to other people I have to work with that are older and refusing to adapt. It is startling for me to see. I have children myself, and I have to work with parents in their 40’s who are afraid because they don’t understand and know what their kids are doing, and are feeling out of touch.

I understand that that is a troubling reality, but it is a reality all the same. You cannot deny that fact, especially in light of stories like the earlier mentioned CEO of a major recording industry saying no one on his board understands all of this new technology mumbo jumbo. And it’s not just records. It’s newpapers, magazines, stock market trading companies, radio conglomerates, bookstores, travel agencies…i could go on and on. These industry’s are either adapting and augmenting their service with new media technologies or folding. And along with the industries, individuals have to do the same.

Look, you’re in HR, so I’ll go to you for everything I need in regards to 401K’s, and sexual harrassment filing…I don’t understand that world in the slightest… but I’m an IT consultant who has been doing this for 15 years, and I cannot sit there and tell you that what I see on a daily basis doesn’t exist. It’s pervasive.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:41:32 +0000

Amazing…what a cliche dig. I thought that those kind of replies were given up on years ago. Guess I was wrong.

I’ll try and work on my syntax for you, since you aren’t able to decipher the message without the proper apostrophe’s and punctuation.

By: Rawlins

Rawlins — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:37:39 +0000

FYI: Jason’s posts strike me as not only showing ‘basic language skills’; they articulately show tact. And patience with those who resent those younger than they while protesting the reverse.