#beaurocracy

The man on the radio is idling his way through the classics, the clock change has slowed his efforts. No traffic lady today, perhaps she's sat in the car queues along with everyone else. The weather man says it's not raining yet, but keep 'the umbrella' to hand.

Someone texted in with a news report ... "Just in - British travellers have been informed that they'll have to wear flip flops when travelling as they'll be obliged to not only go through facial recognition, but also provide toeprints as a way of getting around the current legal roadblocks to obtaining fingerprints."

And you know what makes a job bearable?

Fucking around with the people you work with who also get why it sucks

When your remove the ability to fuck around, you remove what makes a job bearable

And until society as a whole learns that people performing services for a living are not their butlers or robot servants or in the role to specifically cater to their individual needs (both on a customer and a corporate perspective), that they are human people with human needs to function, fucking around is the only way through

I miss being able to fuck around at work, to have a giggle at absurdity and develop inside jokes with my fellow shift-workers who deal with the same nonsense