31st October, 2007 (10:37 am)
The Bit With The Good Cough (2)
Me, oh hearing S hack his lungs out for the hundredth time that morning: “Oh, baby. Poor you. That’s a nasty cough.”
S: “Stop sayin ‘at!”
Me, blinking: “What?”
S: “Ooh and Daddy keep sayin’ ‘at! It’s NOT ‘asty - it’s a GOOD cough!”
Me, surprised: “It is?”
S: “Yes!” He sighs, clearly impatient with the stupidity of his parents. “Oh my GOSH.” More sighs, as though trying to explain rocket science to a moron. “Ooh and Daddy keep sayin’ ‘at all da TIME. It’s not ‘asty - it’s a ‘alloween cough.”
Me: “Oh.”
S, looking at me sadly: “Silly ooh.”
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29th October, 2007 (8:13 pm)
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26th October, 2007 (4:45 pm)
The Bit With The Best Mum Ever (2)
I tickled my son so hard yesterday he threw up.
I am the most awesomest mum in the world.
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25th October, 2007 (8:51 pm)
The Day With The Political Incorrectness (7)
Yesterday I had to report a colleague.
Working in my field is pretty damned difficult a lot of the time - moreso than you’d expect, really, considering I’m supposed to be all soft and nice and caring. Equalities is one of those areas where there are numerous assumptions about you - few flattering - and I frequently find myself silently cursing the rest of equality brigade, not least because I’m in a position where, realistically, being nice and caring is going to land me (and the people I work with) in court.
Despite this, I like to think that I’m pretty easy-going most of the time. Jumping down people’s throat and banging the EQUALITY! DRUM! does little to inspire or change people’s perceptions, and I’ve spent all of my working life working on the drip-drip principal that if you work alongside people to explain why we need to, for example, change flexible leave policies, people are more likely to understand the reasoning behind it rather than simply assume it’s another stupid-arse equality thing. Jumping in with two feet and shitting over everyone else’s work rarely gets the message across and quite often means you’re alone at lunchtime.
I did say most of the time, though. Easy-goingness aside, I still have a job to do, and I still believe in what I do. And I won’t sit by as people break the fucking law not three feet from my desk.
I don’t suppose many people in the UK need re-capping of the Big Brother Race Rows, but if there’s ever a lesson to be learnt from those furors it’s DON’T SAY STUPID THINGS IN PUBLIC. There are curious things like LAWS and LEGISLATION that protect our rights. They don’t exist because, one day, someone thought they would be fun - they’re fundamentally needed for people who experience racism and discrimination and prejudice every single day of their lives. And if you don’t believe me, you’re a fucking asshole. Honest.
I have a colleague who is, essentially, a discriminatory, racist, disabilist, nasty cow. It’s a nightmare. I don’t know if she’s really that ignorant, or simply pretends to be in order to rile me. In truth, I don’t care: it’s my bloody job - and you KNOW it’s my job - and even if it wasn’t, I still call you on it, you stupid cow. What you said was horrendous, and even if I was passing you in the street I’d tell you as much . . . as it is you work with me, so I grassed your ass to your boss. Hah! I don’t even care that you know that - I have nothing to be ashamed of. You, on the other hand, do.
Anyway, as you can imagine, it’s not exactly given the office a warm and cosy atmosphere.
It’s tough being an equality warrior.
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23rd October, 2007 (6:47 pm)
The Day With The Asshole (9)
On finding one of my themes lifted and distributed elsewhere, despite it being contrary to my terms and conditions, I added a polite comment that said:
I don’t object to you showcasing my theme here, but I do object to you offering this for download when it’s against my T&C for unauthorised distribution, particularly as you do not credit me as the theme designer.
Either please link to the downloads from my own page or remove my theme from your site entirely.
Thanks,
Vixx
The reply?
Give link on my site for deleting you theme
[his link here]
My slightly (okay, very) irate response:
Why? You didn’t DESIGN my theme, you didn’t WRITE my theme, and you didn’t get my permission before your distributed it UNAUTHORISED.
Asshole.
Along with Claire’s recent wrangling with digital copyright and preserving designer/author rights online, I’m at my wit’s end. This beggars belief - I couldn’t fucking believe his response.
I distribute themes because I’m trying to be nice. I don’t charge for these, I don’t have sneaky-ass links in my themes, and I pride myself on producing unique, pretty designs that many so-called WP designers don’t. My links are, for now, in tact, but wtf - why should that be at the mercy of this asshole? This makes me wanna completely re-think the whole template thing and go back to simply charging people. The nice guys CANNOT FUCKING WIN.
I’m going to start by reporting him to WP for using the WP name in his domain when it’s prohibited. Other ideas? Comments? Suggestions?
ETA: Amazing what a bit of persuasion will do. He’s relented and his now crediting me.
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